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Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS) are tiny machines built at the nanometer scale. Current NEMS applications are simple machines, such as the tiny cantilever shown at the right. An electrical circuit measures the deflection of the lever. A larger version of this device, with dimensions at the micrometer or millimeter scale, is commonly used as an airbag sensor in automobiles. A sudden stop causes a strong deflection of the lever, which signals that the airbags should be deployed. At the nano scale, such a lever is sensitive enough to measure the weight of individual atoms or molecules resting upon it.

Learn more about NEMS from the resources available on this site, listed below.

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  1. SUGAR: the SPICE for MEMS

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2735

  2. Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2710

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

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

    Calculation of Thermal Conductance of an Atomic Chain

    http://nanohub.org/resources/greentherm

  4. BNC Annual Research Symposium: Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomedical Devices

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2626

  5. BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2636

  6. Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

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    23 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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2604

  7. Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2601

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

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    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...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2590

  9. Fouling Mechanisms in Y-shaped Carbon Nanotubes

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    04 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Myers, SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

    In the modern pharmaceutical and chemical industries, solutions of extremely high purity are needed. Current filtration methods are reaching the limits of their abilities, so new filters must be...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2582

  10. MSE 376 Lecture 19: Nanoelectromechanical Systems, part 2

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    31 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Hersam

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2558

  11. MSE 376 Lecture 18: Nanoelectromechanical Systems, part 1

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    31 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Hersam

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2555

  12. VEDA: Dynamic Approach Curves

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    15 Mar 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): John Melcher, Shuiqing Hu, Steven Douglas Johnson, Daniel Kiracofe, Arvind Raman

    This tool is being replaced by VEDA 2.0. Use that tool instead.

    http://nanohub.org/resources/dynamicafm

  13. Nanonewton Podcasts at MIT

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    06 Mar 2007 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jeremy Brittan

    Listen to podcast discussions with scientists and MIT students in the field of Nanomechanics in conjunction with the Spring 2007 MIT undergraduate engineering course: 3.052 Nanomechanics of...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2438

  14. Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces

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    01 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Baratunde A. Cola

    Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2317

  15. RF MEMS: Passive Components and Architectures

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    08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dimitrios Peroulis

    This seminar is an introduction to the MEMS technology as it applies to RF and Microwave systems. Besides discussing several key RF MEMS components (switches, varactors, inductors),...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2141

  16. Nanoscale Thermodynamics

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    14 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Enriquez

    This is the fifth contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. This introduces nanothermodynamics, the study of...

    http://nanohub.org/resources/2106

  17. REBO

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    02 Oct 2006 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wen-Dung Hsu, SeongJun Heo, Jing Xu, Susan Sinnott

    Reactive Empirical Bond-Order (REBO) potential is a many-body expression optimized for modeling covalently bonded materials, such as carbon and silicon, in large-scale atomistic simulations

    http://nanohub.org/resources/rebomd

  18. naitbouda abdelyamine

    process engineer in plasma etch processuse molecular dynamics simulation for exploring nanotechnology world

    http://nanohub.org/members/16219

  19. Micelle

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    21 Sep 2006 | Tools | Contributor(s): Kunal Shah, Patrick Chiu, Jing Xu, Susan Sinnott

    Parallel Molecular Dynamics (MD) code that models surfactant structures in water and at liquid/solid interfaces.

    http://nanohub.org/resources/micelle

  20. Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains

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    28 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

    Phonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they serve a vital role in dissipating heat produced by scattered electrons in semiconductor devices....

    http://nanohub.org/resources/1186