A Gentle Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner

While the Greek root nano just means dwarf, the nanoscale has become a giant focus of contemporary science and technology. We will examine the fundamental issues underlying the excitement involved …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1021

A Personal Quest for Information

19 Feb 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vwani P. Roychowdhury

This talk will report results and conclusions from my personal investigations into several different disciplines, carried out with the unifying intent of uncovering some of the fundamental principles …

https://nanohub.org/resources/155

A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

23 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Computer simulation is now an essential tool for the research and development of semiconductor processes and devices, but to use a simulation tool intelligently, one must know what's "under the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/980

A Tutorial for Nanoelectronics Simulation Tools

03 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): James K Fodor, Jing Guo

This learning module introduces nanoHUB users to some of the available simulators. The simulators discussed are FETToy, nanoMOS, Schred, CNTbands, and QDot Lab. For each simulator, a brief …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2842

An Electrical Engineering Perspective on Molecular Electronics

26 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths that are less than 50 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/513

Atomistic Modeling and Simulation Tools for Nanoelectronics and their Deployment on nanoHUB.org

16 Dec 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

At the nanometer scale the concepts of device and material meet and a new device is a new material and vice versa. While atomistic device representations are novel to device physicists, the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10199

Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics

01 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation will highlight, for nanoelectronic device examples, how the effective mass approximation breaks down and why the quantum mechanical nature of the atomically resolved material needs …

https://nanohub.org/resources/381

BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoelectronics and Semiconductor Devices

23 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Janes

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/2632

Can numerical “experiments” INSPIRE physical experiments?

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

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/3716

Chemically Enhanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials and Devices

09 Nov 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Hersam

Carbon-based nanomaterials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, batteries, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9929

CMOS Nanotechnology

07 Jul 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

In non-specialist language, this talk introduces CMOS technology used for modern electronics. Beginning with an explanation of "CMOS," the speaker relates basic system considerations of transistor …

https://nanohub.org/resources/166

Computational Modeling: Experience from my Bell Lab Days

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

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/3633

Control of Spin Precession in a Datta-Das Transistor Structure

11 Apr 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hyun Cheol Koo

Transistors Switch onto Spin Using the spin of an electron in addition to, or instead of, the charge properties is believed to have many benefits in terms of speed, power-cost, and integration …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8057

Design in the Nanometer Regime: Process Variation

28 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

Scaling of technology over the last few decades has produced an exponential growth in computing power of integrated circuits and an unprecedented number of transistors integrated into a single. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2018

Design of CMOS Circuits in the Nanometer Regime: Leakage Tolerance

28 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

The scaling of technology has produced exponential growth in transistor development and computing power in the last few decades, but scaling still presents several challenges. These two lectures will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2023

Digital Electronics: Fundamental Limits and Future Prospects

20 Jan 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Konstantin K. Likharev

I will review some old and some recent work on the fundamental (and not so fundamental) limits imposed by physics of electron devices on their density and power consumption.

https://nanohub.org/resources/149

Discussion Session 2 (Lectures 3 and 4)

08 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

“Electronics from the Bottom Up” is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9664

Discussion Session 3 (Lectures 5 and 6)

09 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

“Electronics from the Bottom Up” is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9679

DNA Nanowires

06 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Margarita Shalaev

DNA is a relatively inexpensive and ubiquitous material that can be used as a scaffold for constructing nanowires. Our research focuses on the manufacturing of DNA-templated, magnetic nanowires. This …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1679

ECE 606 Lecture 14: Bulk Recombination

29 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Outline: Derivation of SRH formula Application of SRH formula for special cases Direct and Auger recombination Conclusion R. F. Pierret, "Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals", Modular Series …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5808