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NCN@Illinois Video Team
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The NCN@Illinois Video Team is based out at MNTL on the UIUC campus of the University of Illinois. Since 2010, they have been videotaping classes, seminars, workshops, and more, focusing mostly on...
https://nanohub.org/groups/ncnillinoisvid
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Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications
Courses | 28 Jul 2011 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
Engineers and scientists working on electronic materials and devices need a working knowledge of "near-equilibrium" (also called "linear" or "low-field") transport. The term "working knowledge" means understanding how to use theory in practice. Measurements...
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NEMO5 Overview Presentation
Online Presentations | 17 Jul 2012 | Contributor(s):: Tillmann Christoph Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Jean Michel D Sellier, James Fonseca, Gerhard Klimeck
This presentation gives an overview of the current functionality of NEMO5.
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NEMO5 Tutorial 3: Models
Online Presentations | 17 Jul 2012 | Contributor(s):: Jean Michel D Sellier
This tutorial presents the models implemented in NEMO5. A description on how the solvers interact with each other is reported along with the options of the various solvers. An example on how to make a simulation that involves strain calculations, Schroedinger wave functions calculations and an...
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NEMO5 Tutorial 5A: Devi ce Simulation - Quantum Dots
Online Presentations | 17 Jul 2012 | Contributor(s):: Jean Michel D Sellier
This presentation introduces the capabilities of NEMO5 to simulate quantum dots.
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Solar Cell Fundamentals
Courses | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom, J. L. Gray, Muhammad A. Alam
A new version of the course has been posted here. The modern solar cell was invented at Bell Labs in 1954 and is currently receiving renewed attention as a potential contribution to addressing the world's energy challenge. This set of five tutorials is an introduction to solar...
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Solar Cells Lecture 1: Introduction to Photovoltaics
Online Presentations | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
An introduction to solar cells covering the basics of PN junctions, optical absorption, and IV characteristics. Key technology options and economic considers are briefly presented.
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Solar Cells Lecture 2: Physics of Crystalline Solar Cells
Online Presentations | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
Solar cell performance is determined by generation and recombination of electron-hole pairs. This tutorial focussing on recombination losses in crystalline silicon solar cells under short-circuit and open-circuit conditions.
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Solar Cells Lecture 3: Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Devices and Systems
Online Presentations | 20 Jul 2011 | Contributor(s):: J. L. Gray
Modeling and simulation play an important role in designing and optimizing PV systems. This tutorial is a broad overview of the topic including a look at detailed, numerical device simulation.
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Solar Cells Lecture 4: What is Different about Thin-Film Solar Cells?
Online Presentations | 29 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
Thin film solar cells promise acceptable efficiency at low cost. This tutorial examines the device physics of thin-film solar cells, which generally require a different type of analysis than crystalline solar cells.
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Solar Cells Lecture 5: Organic Photovoltaics
Online Presentations | 29 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
Organic solar cells make use of low-cost organic polymers for photovoltaics. Although these solar cells may appear to be quite different from solar cells made with conventional, inorganic semiconductors (e.g. they make use of exciton generation rather than electron-hole generation) this tutorial...
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Spin Transport and Topological Insulators I
Online Presentations | 29 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
A major development of the last two decades, the physical and conceptual integration of what used to be two distinct unrelated fields, namely spintronics and magnetics.
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Spin Transport and Topological Insulators II
Online Presentations | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
A major development of the last two decades, the physical and conceptual integration of what used to be two distinct unrelated fields, namely spintronics and magnetics.
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Jun 04 2018
Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education
Computational approaches have transformed many scientific and engineering disciplines in the last decade. While the complexity of the physics and multiscale nature of materials makes modeling...
https://nanohub.org/events/details/1713
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The Functional Protocell concept
Online Presentations | 23 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Eric Jakobsson
We have invented and created the first prototype of the Functional Protocell.We define the “functional protocell" as a nanoporous solid surrounded by a membrane. The cavities in the solid can be filled with any desired electrolyte up to the limit of solubility. The surrounding membrane can...
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Thermal Transport Across Interfaces
Courses | 19 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
These lectures provide a theoretical development of the transport of thermal energy by conduction in nanomaterials, in which material interfaces typically dominate transport. The physical nature of energy transport by two carriers: electrons and phonons--will be explored.
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Tutorial 1: Atomistic Material Science - ab initio simulations of materials
Online Presentations | 25 Aug 2011 | Contributor(s):: Alejandro Strachan
This lecture introduces first principles electronic structure calculations of materials properties.It describes the approximations made to the many-body Schrodinger equation in Hartree Fock and Density Functional Theory and numerical approximations used in computer simulations.
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Tutorial 1: Electrical Fluctuations at the Nanoscale
Online Presentations | 23 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s):: N.S.Vidhyadhiraja
This lecture will review the phenomenology and theoretical approaches associated with the study of electrical current fluctuations.
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Tutorial 1: Thermal Transport Across Interfaces - Phonons
Online Presentations | 30 Jul 2011 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
Outline:Lattice vibrations and phononsThe vibrating stringInterfaces between dissimilar strings: acousticmismatchDiscrete masses and the vibrational eigenspectrumGeneral thermal transport theory
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Tutorial 2: A Bottom-Up View of Heat Transfer in Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 23 Mar 2011 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
This lecture provides a theoretical development of the transport of thermal energy by conduction in nanomaterials. The physical nature of energy transport by two carriers—electrons and phonons--will be explored from basic principles using a common Landauer framework. Issues including the quantum...