Simple Harmonic Oscillator

15 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Heng Li

One of the most important model systems in quantum mechanics because a wide variaty of physical situations can be reduced to it either exactly or approximately. In particular, a system near an …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2337

Particle in a Box

15 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Heng Li

The particle in a box (or the infinite potential well) is a simple idealized system that is completely solved within quantun mechanics. The infinite potential well is a finite sized region in space …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2339

Birck Nanotechnology Seminar Series

21 Feb 2007 | Series

The Birk Nanotechnology Center The Bindley Bioscience Center Purdue Discovery Park The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing The Network for Computational Nanotechnology VEECO NCN …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2347

Dendrimer-Templated Catalyst for Controlled Growth of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Plasma-Enhanced CVD

20 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Placidus Amama

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are an important class of materials with several technological applications because they possess unparalleled properties in terms of ballistic electrical conductivity, thermal …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2341

SPMW Interplay between theory and experiment in AFM nanomechanical studies of polymers

30 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sergei Magonov, Sergey Belikov

High-resolution imaging of surfaces and compositional mapping of heterogeneous materials are the main functions of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in studies of polymer materials. Compositional mapping …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2030

Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)

09 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert P. H. Chang

Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2329

SPMW Nanotube, nanoneedle and nanomeniscus: mechanical and wetting properties of modified AFM tip apex

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): J. P. Aimé

Among AFM microscopes, Dynamic force microscopes (DFM) are very sensitive to variation of minute forces involved in the interaction between the tip and the surface. However, despite numerous efforts, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2103

SPMW Nanomechanics: from nanotechnology to biology

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Elisa Riedo

The development of new materials with size of few nanometers has opened a new field of scientific and technological research. The goal is to develop faster and better communication systems and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2101

SPMW Nonlinear dynamics in AFM - chaos and parametric resonance

05 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

The field of nonlinear dynamics deals with mathematical techniques to study the nonlinear equations that serve as models of physical systems. The benefits of using nonlinear dynamics concepts to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2238

Highly Efficient Thermal Transport: The Application of Carbon Nanotube Array Interfaces

01 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Baratunde A. Cola

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received much attention in recent years for their extraordinary properties that through careful engineering may be leverage for the development of numerous advantageous …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2317

Surprises on the nanoscale: Plasmonic waves that travel backward and spin birefringence without magnetic fields

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Daniel Neuhauser

As nanonphotonics and nanoelectronics are pushed down towards the molecular scale, interesting effects emerge. We discuss how birefringence (different propagation of two polarizations) is …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2256

Nanoparticles in Biology and Materials: Engineering the Interface through Synthesis

29 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vincent Rotello

Monolayer-protected nanoparticles provide versatile tools for nanotechnology. In our research, we use these nanoparticles as building blocks for the creation of functional magnetic and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2312

A Vision for the Digital Data Universe

18 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher L. Greer

Enabling the nation's future through discovery, learning and innovation.

https://nanohub.org/resources/2291

SPMW Mechanisms of atomic friction studied by friction force microscopy

12 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ernst Meyer

Force microscopy is a versatile instrument to investigate physical phenomena on surfaces. The first emphasis is on the study of friction on the nanometer-scale, also called nanotribology. It will be …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2102

On Modeling Metabolic Systems

04 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Doraiswami Ramkrishna

Modeling metabolism has been generally based on the numerous cellular reactions to be in steady state with respect to the external fluxes on the cell boundary. The essence of this "steady state" …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2165

Plasmon-resonant Nanorods as Multifunctional Imaging Agents

28 Dec 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alexander Wei

Gold nanorods have several outstanding characteristics as optical contrast agents for biomedical imaging. Their strong optical absorption at near-infrared (NIR) frequencies can be used to generate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2127

McCoy Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon

04 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

This is a video taped live lecture covering roughly the same material as lecture 1 of "Concepts of Quantum Transport". Video only.

https://nanohub.org/resources/1831

Materials Science on the Atomic Scale with the 3-D Atom Probe

08 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George D. W. Smith

Some of the key goals of materials science and technology are to be able to design a material from first principles, to predict its behaviour, and also to optimise the processing route for its …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1973

Potassium Channels: Conduction, Selectivity, Blockage, Inactivation, and Gating

03 Nov 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Benoit Roux, NCN SLC@Northwestern

The determination of the structure of the KcsA K+ channel from Streptomyces lividan has made it possible to investigate the function of a biological channel at the atomic level. Because of its …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1959

The Limits of CMOS Scaling from a Power-Constrained Technology Optimization Perspective

17 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David J. Frank

As CMOS scaling progresses, it is becoming very clear that power dissipation plays a dominant role in limiting how far scaling can go. This talk will briefly describe the various physical effects …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1883