High-Aspect-Ratio Micromachining of Titanium: Enabling New Functionality and Opportunity in Micromechanical Systems Through Greater Materials Selection

18 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Masa Rao

Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4743

BNC Annual Research Review: An Introduction to PRISM and MEMS Simulation

04 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jayathi Murthy

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4717

BNC Research Review: The Birck Nanotechnology Center-Progress, Opportunitiees, and Challenges

04 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4707

Tutorial for NanogromacsSenior

28 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dairui Chen

Breezed and uploaded by Cezary Wojtkowski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

https://nanohub.org/resources/4446

Ferroelectric BaTiO3 Nanowires: Synthesis, Properties, and Device Applications

12 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Zhaoyu Wang

One dimensional ferroelectric nanowires have attracted much attention due to its interests in fundamental physics and potential applications in Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), non-volatile …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4031

An Experimentalists’ Perspective

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arunava Majumdar

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3628

Plastic Deformation at Micron and Submicron Scales

28 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Marisol Koslowski

Most people experiences the way objects plastically deform on a macroscopic scale. From a car crash to the bending of a paper clip plastic deformation occurs in the form of a smooth flow as a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3559

Microscale Ionic Wind for Local Cooling Enhancement

26 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David B Go

As the electronics industry continues to develop small, highly functional, mobile devices, new methods of cooling are required to manage the thermal requirements of the not only the chip but …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3358

Introduction of MEMS Activity at Nano/Micro System Engineering Lab., Kyoto University

15 Sep 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Osamu Tabata

We are aiming at the realization of microsystems and nanosystems with novel and unique functions by integrating functional elements in different domains such as mechanics, electronics, chemistry, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3243

Selective Silicon Epitaxy Seen at the Nanometer Scale

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Matthew Mark Sztelle

The presenter introduces NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems) and STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and continues to present material on Selective Silicon Epitaxy seen at the Nanometer ScaleMatthew …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2810

Piezoelectric Transducers: Strain Sensing and Energy Harvesting (and Frequency Tuning)

15 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Toshikazu Nishida

Acoustic pressure or mechanical force sensing via piezoelectric coupling is closely related to the harvesting of electrical energy from acoustical and mechanical energy sources. In this talk, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2575

Nanotechnology: Considerations for Facility Design

21 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Weaver

The growing area of study broadly termed nanotechnology provides a new set of challenges to the facility designer. While evolutionary changes in the quality of clean spaces occur, it is the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2684

SUGAR: the SPICE for MEMS

21 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Clark

In this seminar, I present some design, modeling, and simulation features of a computer aided engineering tool for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) called SUGAR. For experimental verification, I …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2735

Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials

15 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

Prior studies on electron emission show possibly beneficial effects of nanoscale phenomena on energy-conversion characteristics. For example, recent work has shown that the electric field around a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2710

Atomistic Green's Function Method 1-D Atomic Chain Simulation

16 Apr 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Zhen Huang, Wei Zhang, Timothy S Fisher, Sridhar Sadasivam

Calculation of Thermal Conductance of an Atomic Chain

https://nanohub.org/resources/greentherm

BNC Annual Research Symposium: Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomedical Devices

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rashid Bashir

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2626

BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2636

Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2604

Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo

The frictional properties of polyethylene polymer are investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the sliding orientational effect is considered in this study. The …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2601

High-Aspect-Ratio Micromachining of Titanium: Enabling New Functionality and Opportunity in Micromechanical Systems Through Greater Materials Selection

09 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Masa Rao

Traditionally, materials selection has been limited in high-aspect-ratio micromechanical applications, due primarily to the predominance of microfabrication processes and infrastructure dedicated to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2590