Conquering Surface Plasmon Resonance Loss in Metallic Nanostructures

16 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mikhail A. Noginov

We have observed the compensation of loss in metal by gain in dielectric in the mixture of Ag aggregate and rhodamine 6G dye. The demonstrated six-fold enhancement of the Rayleigh scattering is the …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2450

Carbon Nanotube Mission

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Adaku Ochia

Carbon nanotubes have become an interesting phenomenon over the past couple of years as electrical devices and electro-mechanical systems have dramatically shrunk in size. Accidentally discovered by …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3023

Introduction to Self-Assembled Monolayers and Biosensors

01 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael Toole

Recent research concerning self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) focuses on tasks from fabrication of microelectronics to creating biosensors. This presentation will address the fundamental principles of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3005

Re-engineering a Healthy Eye Tissue to Restore Damaged Eyesight

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Margarita Shalaev

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye disease that is the leading cause of blindness in the USA and Western Europe. It affects over one million people in the United States alone. One of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3011

Direct Microcontact Printing of Gold and Silver on Silicon

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jamie Nipple

Because microcontact printing (µCP) allows the fabrication of disposable electronic devices with minimum cost, this technique has proven useful in the patterned functionalization of certain …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3015

The Effect of Physical Geometry on the Frequency Response of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

03 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dave Lyzenga

In order for carbon nanotube (CNT) electrical devices to be fabricated, it is necessary to obtain modifiable operation characteristics. Developing parametric equations to achieve this controllability …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3044

Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films

02 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Josh Kaufman

Thin metal films have many applications from optical limiters to nanocircuits. Methods for fabricating these films differ in theory and complexity. Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) is a popular method …

http://nanohub.org/resources/3013

Selective Silicon Epitaxy Seen at the Nanometer Scale

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Matthew Mark Sztelle

The presenter introduces NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems) and STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and continues to present material on Selective Silicon Epitaxy seen at the Nanometer ScaleMatthew …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2810

From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Jakobsson

Modern chemistry research and high school chemistry education are separated by institutional and geographical boundaries. As such, much of secondary chemistry education is still based on the periodic …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2725

Introduction to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

20 Apr 2007 | Animations | Contributor(s): Hyung-Seok Hahm

This is a 60 second movie clip with an introduction to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy(STM). Design goals are - Give an idea of what STM looks like - Provide an overview of what STM does and …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2620

Operation of Scannig Tunneling Microscopy

20 Apr 2007 | Animations | Contributor(s): Hyung-Seok Hahm

This is a 60-second movie clip with a narration of how Scanning Tunneling Microscopy(STM) operates. Produced by Eric Meyer, Imran Sobh and Hyung-Seok Hahm Beckman Institute University of Illinois at …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2621

Carbon Nanotubes Interconnect Analyzer (CNIA)

14 Mar 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Sansiri Tanachutiwat, wei wang

Analyze performances of carbon nanotube bundle interconnects

http://nanohub.org/resources/2464

Nanonewton Podcasts at MIT

06 Mar 2007 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Jeremy Brittan

Listen to podcast discussions with scientists and MIT students in the field of Nanomechanics in conjunction with the Spring 2007 MIT undergraduate engineering course: 3.052 Nanomechanics of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2438

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 …

http://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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2339

Periodic Potential

21 Feb 2007 | Tools | Contributor(s): Heng Li, Alexander Gavrilenko

Calculation of the allowed and forbidden states in a periodic potential

http://nanohub.org/resources/2346

Energy Bands In Periodic Potentials

11 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Heng Li

It is the Kronig-Penny Model. The particle in one-dimensional lattice is a problem that occurs in the model of periodic crystal lattice.The potential is caused by periodic arrangement of ions in …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2263

Grid Appliance: a First-time User's Tutorial

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Wolinsky

This video shows step-by-step instructions on how to use the nanoHUB virtual machine Grid Appliance: from starting it up to running Rappture applications, accessing your nanoHUB files through WebDAV, …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2244

DNA Nanoarchitectures

24 Dec 2006 | Notes | Contributor(s): Rakesh Voggu

DNA has been well known for over 50 years as the predominant chemical for duplication and storage of genetic information in biology. Now DNA has also been recognized as a useful building material in …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2123

nanoHUB Grid Appliance

21 Dec 2006 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Renato Figueiredo

The Grid appliance allows nanoHUB users to run a development "virtual workspace" in their own desktop. The workspace has a Linux-based virtual machine with Rappture, WebDAV and Condor pre-installed …

http://nanohub.org/resources/2121