Focused ion beam creation and templating of InAs and InAs/InP nanospikes

21 Nov 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Joanna Millunchick

Ion beam irradiation has been examined as a method for creating nanoscale semiconductor pillar and cone structures, but has the drawback of inaccurate nanostructure placement. We report on a method …

http://nanohub.org/resources/12538

Illinois ECE598XL Semiconductor Nanotechnology

27 Jun 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Xiuling Li

Lectures and discussion on current topics of semiconductor nanotechnology building block formation, characterization and device applications. Group IV, III-V and II-VI semiconductor nanowires, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11399

CHM 696 Lecture 14: Semiconductor Nanoparticles, Nanorods, and Nanowires: Properties and Applications I

02 Jun 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alexander Wei

http://nanohub.org/resources/11369

CHM 696 Lecture 15: Semiconductor Nanoparticles, Nanorods, and Nanowires: Properties and Applications II

02 Jun 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alexander Wei

http://nanohub.org/resources/11373

Tutorial 4: Far-From-Equilibrium Quantum Transport

29 Mar 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

These lectures focus on the application of the theories using the nanoelectronic modeling tools NEMO 1- D, NEMO 3-D, and OMEN to realistically extended devices. Topics to be covered are realistic …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11042

Tutorial 4b: Introduction to the NEMO3D Tool - Electronic Structure and Transport in 3D

29 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Electronic Structure and Transport in 3D - Quantum Dots, Nanowires and Ultra-Thin Body Transistors

http://nanohub.org/resources/11049

Stick2D

28 Feb 2011 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jiantong Li

A Monte Carlo simulator to study percolation characteristics of two-dimensional stick systems

http://nanohub.org/resources/stick2d

OMEN Nanowire: solve the challenge

05 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim

This document includes a challenging problems for OMEN Nanowire users. It challenges users to establish a nanowire transistor structure such that it satisfy the ITRS 2010 requirements.

http://nanohub.org/resources/10764

Electron Density in a Nanowire

30 Jan 2011 | Animations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra

Electron Density in a circular Silicon nanowire transistor.

http://nanohub.org/resources/10666

OMEN Nanowire Homework Problems

23 Jan 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim

OMEN Nanowire homework problems: anyone who has gone through the first-time user guide of OMEN Nanowire and done the examples in the guide should be able to run simulations in these homework …

http://nanohub.org/resources/10512

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/10199

Limits of Thermal Processes and their Implications on Efficient Energy Utilization

19 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arunava Majumdar

About 90 percent of the world’s energy use involves thermal processes – thermal engines to generate mechanical power; heating and cooling in buildings; heating involved in manufacturing of steel, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9898

Thermoelectric effects in semiconductor nanostructures: Role of electron and lattice properties

29 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation covers some aspects of present development in the field of thermoelectricity and focuses particularly on the silicon nanowires as potential thermoelectric materials. The electronic …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9787

NanoV: Nanowire-based VLSI Design

06 Sep 2010 | Downloads | Contributor(s): muzaffer simsir

In the coming decade, CMOS technology is expected to approach its scaling limitations. Among the proposed nanotechnologies, nanowires have the edge in the size of circuits and logic arrays that have …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9629

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 35: Alloy Disorder in Nanowires

07 Jul 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Timothy Boykin, Neerav Kharche, Mathieu Luisier, Neophytos Neophytou

This presentation discusses the consequences of Alloy Disorder in unstrained strained AlGaAs nanowires Relationship between dispersion relationship and transmission in perfectly ordered wires …

http://nanohub.org/resources/9280

Threshold voltage in a nanowire MOSFET

09 Apr 2010 | Animations | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, SungGeun Kim, Gerhard Klimeck

Threshold voltage in a metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (better known as a MOSFET) is usually defined as the gate voltage at which an inversion layer forms at the interface between …

http://nanohub.org/resources/8803

Nanotechnology Animation Gallery

20 Apr 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

Animations and visualization are generated with various nanoHUB.org tools to enable insight into nanotechnology and nanoscience. Click on image for detailed description and larger image download. …

http://nanohub.org/resources/8882

ECET 499N Lecture 10: Nanomaterials

07 Apr 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Helen McNally

http://nanohub.org/resources/8771

Notes on Scattering and Mobility in 1D, 2D, and 3D

03 Nov 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dmitri Nikonov, Md. Sayed Hasan, George Bourianoff

Derivation of the phonon-limited mobility is reviewed for electrons in bulk (3D) or quantum confined (2D and 1D) semiconductor structures. Analytical estimates are made that show the mobility in …

http://nanohub.org/resources/7737

Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

21 Sep 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): andrei kolmakov

Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5738