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

Active Photonic Nanomaterials: From Random to Periodic Structures

06 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hui Cao

Active photonic nanomaterials, which have high gain or large nonlinearity, are essential to the development of nanophotonic devices and circuits. In this talk, I will provide a review of our …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1012

Designing Nanocomposite Materials for Solid-State Energy Conversion

10 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

New materials will be necessary to break through today's performance envelopes for solid-state energy conversion devices ranging from LED-based solid-state white lamps to thermoelectric devices …

https://nanohub.org/resources/832

VolQD: Graphics Hardware Accelerated Interactive Visual Analytics of Multi-million Atom Nanoelectronics Simulations

13 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Wei Qiao

In this work we present a hardware-accelerated direct volume rendering system for visualizing multivariate wave functions in semiconducting quantum dot (QD) simulations. The simulation data …

https://nanohub.org/resources/789

Atomic Force Microscopy

01 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an indispensible tool in nano science for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation, and property characterization of nanostructures. This tutorial reviews some of the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/520

Designing Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials

08 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

This tutorial reviews recent strategies for designing high-ZT nanostructured materials, including superlattices, embedded quantum dots, and nanowire composites. The tutorial highlights the challenges …

https://nanohub.org/resources/383

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

Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly for Biological Sensing

25 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gil Lee

Nanoparticles have unique physical and chemical properties that make them very useful for biological and chemical sensing. For example, colloidal gold has been used as an optical transducer for …

https://nanohub.org/resources/386

Semiconductor Interfaces at the Nanoscale

17 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Janes

The trend in downscaling of electronic devices and the need to add functionalities such as sensing and nonvolatile memory to existing circuitry dictate that new approaches be developed for device …

https://nanohub.org/resources/196

Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Coupling Light to Nanostructure via Plasmons

03 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

The photon is the ultimate unit of information because it packages data in a signal of zero mass and has unmatched speed. The power of light is driving the photonicrevolution, and information …

https://nanohub.org/resources/194

Quantum Dots

21 Jul 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Quantum Dots are man-made artificial atoms that confine electrons to a small space. As such, they have atomic-like behavior and enable the study of quantum mechanical effects on a length scale that …

https://nanohub.org/resources/189

Parallel Computing for Realistic Nanoelectronic Simulations

12 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Typical modeling and simulation efforts directed towards the understanding of electron transport at the nanometer scale utilize single workstations as computational engines. Growing understanding of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/191

Nanomaterials: Quantum Dots, Nanowires and Nanotubes

15 Jul 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

What is a quantum dot? What is a nanowire? What is a nanotube? Why are these interesting and what are their potential applications? How are they made? This presentation is intended to begin to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/376

HPC and Visualization for multimillion atom simulations

21 Jun 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation gives an overview of the HPC and visulaization efforts involving multi-million atom simulations for the June 2005 NSF site visit to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

https://nanohub.org/resources/187

Single Electron Switching with Nano-Electromechanical Systems and Applications in Ion Channel Transport

01 Nov 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Blick

Taking classes in physics always starts with Newtonian mechanics. In reducing the size of the objects considered however the transition into the quantum mechanical regime has to occur. The …

https://nanohub.org/resources/173

Control of Exchange Interaction in a Double Dot System

05 Feb 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mike Stopa

As Rolf Landauer observed in 1960, information is physical. As a consequence, the transport and processing of information must obey the laws of physics. It therefore makes sense to base the laws of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/152

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata

24 Nov 2003 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Craig S. Lent

The multiple challenges presented by the problem of scaling transistor sizes are all related to the fact that transistors encode binary information by the state of a current switch. What is required …

https://nanohub.org/resources/148