Nanotechnology Animation Gallery

22 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. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8882

ECET 499N Lecture 10: Nanomaterials

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

https://nanohub.org/resources/8771

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

06 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 …

https://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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5738

Illinois ECE 598EP Lecture 8 - Hot Chips: Thermal Conductivity of Solids

24 Jun 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Pop, Omar N Sobh

Thermal Conductivity of Solids Topics: Kinetic Theory of Energy Transport Simple Kinetic Theory Assumptions Phonon MFP and Scattering Time Silicon Film Thermal Conductivity Silicon …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6985

Band Structure Lab: First-Time User Guide

15 Jun 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Benjamin P Haley, Gerhard Klimeck

This document provides useful information about Band Structure Lab. First-time users will find basic ideas about the physics behind the tool such as band formation, the Hamiltonian description, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6935

Band Structure Lab Demonstration: Bulk Strain

12 Jun 2009 | Animations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This video shows an electronic structure calculation of bulk Si using Band Structure Lab. Several powerful features of this tool are demonstrated.

https://nanohub.org/resources/6815

OMEN Nanowire Demonstration: Nanowire Simulation and Analysis

11 Jun 2009 | Animations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley

This video shows the simulation and analysis of a nanowire using OMEN Nanowire. Several powerful analytic features of this tool are demonstrated.

https://nanohub.org/resources/6833

KP Nanowire/UTB FET

22 Mar 2009 | Tools | Contributor(s): Mincheol Shin

Simulate Nanowire/UTB FETs Using KP method

https://nanohub.org/resources/kpnanofet

OMEN Nanowire: First-Time User Guide

21 Feb 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim, Benjamin P Haley, Mathieu Luisier, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

This is the first-time user guide for OMEN Nanowire. In addition to showing how the tool operates, it briefly explains what the OMEN Nanowire is, what it can do, and the input and output …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6318

OMEN Nanowire

02 Sep 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim, Mathieu Luisier, Benjamin P Haley, Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

Full-band 3D quantum transport simulation in nanowire structure

https://nanohub.org/resources/omenwire

Lecture 2: Thresholds, Islands, and Fractals

04 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Three basic concepts of the percolation theory – namely, percolation threshold, cluster size distribution, and fractal dimension – are defined and methods to calculate them are illustrated via …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5698

Lecture 1: Percolation in Electronic Devices

04 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

Even a casual review of modern electronics quickly convinces everyone that randomness of geometrical parameters must play a key role in understanding the transport properties. Despite the diversity …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5697

Percolation Theory

03 Nov 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

The electronic devices these days have become so small that the number of dopant atoms in the channel of a MOFET transistor, the number of oxide atoms in its gate dielectric, the number silicon- or …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5660

ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors

16 Jul 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

One-stop-shop for teaching semiconductor device education

https://nanohub.org/resources/abacus

Can we define unique effective masses in Si nanowires?

06 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

This exercise teaches the users that for small nanostructures the concept of the effective mass becomes vague and in order to properly describe nanostructures one has to take into account the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4880

Some Important Aspects of the Chemistry of Nanomaterials

01 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): C.N.R. Rao

Keynote address for the launch of the Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4838

BNC Annual Research Review: Thin-Film Electronics using Nanowire Transistors

06 Jun 2008 | 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/4722

Nanowire: First-Time User Guide

05 May 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra

Nanowire is a simulation tool for silicon nanowire FET's in the nanometer regime (diameter

https://nanohub.org/resources/4531

MuGFET: First-Time User Guide

28 Apr 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim, Sriraman Damodaran, Benjamin P Haley, Gerhard Klimeck

MuGFET is a simulation tool for nano-scale multi-gate FET structures. This document provides instructions on how to use MuGFET. MuGFET users can use also the PROPHET or the PADRE tool. Either of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4470