Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor (Spring 2004)

23 May 2006 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer materials and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ 0.1 nm). The properties of such …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1490

Nanotubes and Nanowires: One-dimensional Materials

17 Jul 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

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

https://nanohub.org/resources/1639

Engineering Nanomedical Systems

06 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): James Leary

This tutorial discusses general problems and approaches to the design of engineered nanomedical systems. One example given is the engineering design of programmable multilayered nanoparticles (PMNP) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1093

Molecular Transport Structures: Elastic Scattering, Vibronic Effects and Beyond

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner, Abraham Nitzan, Misha Galperin

Current experimental efforts are clarifying quite beautifully the nature of charge transport in so-called molecular junctions, in which a single molecule provides the channel for current flow between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1018

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

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) - Memory Cells

03 Feb 2006 | Animations | Contributor(s): John C. Bean

Scientists and engineers are looking for completely different ways of storing and analyzing information. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata are one possible solution. In computers of the future, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1006

Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) - Logic Gates

03 Feb 2006 | Animations | Contributor(s): John C. Bean

An earlier animation described how "Quantum-dot Cellular Automata" (QCAs) could serve as memory cells and wires. This animation contnues the story by describing how QCAs can be made into MAJORITY, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1005

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

Quantum Dot Lab

12 Nov 2005 | Tools | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Lars Bjaalie, Sebastian Steiger, David Ebert, Tillmann Christoph Kubis, Matteo Mannino, Michael McLennan, Hong-Hyun Park, Michael Povolotskyi

Compute the eigenstates of a particle in a box of various shapes including domes and pyramids.

https://nanohub.org/resources/qdot

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