Presentation Publishing on the nanoHUB

10 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joseph M. Cychosz

This presentation gives a detailed overview of the process of creating an online presentation for the nanoHUB. It describes how to use Adobe-Macromedia's Breeze presentation tool in conjuction with …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2955

Molecular Interferometry

26 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David D. Nolte

While single-molecule detection through fluorescence has now become common-place, there has been no analogous single-molecule capability using direct detection approaches such as interferometry. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2832

Pan American Advanced Study Institute Lectures: Nanodevices and Maxwell’s Demon

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon This is a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2758

PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 2

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures. This is part 2 of a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 of Concepts of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2784

PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 1

13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures. This is part 1 of a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 of Concepts of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2783

Nanotechnology: Considerations for Facility Design

21 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Weaver

The growing area of study broadly termed nanotechnology provides a new set of challenges to the facility designer. While evolutionary changes in the quality of clean spaces occur, it is the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2684

SUGAR: the SPICE for MEMS

21 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Clark

In this seminar, I present some design, modeling, and simulation features of a computer aided engineering tool for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) called SUGAR. For experimental verification, I …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2735

Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and to XPS Applications

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitry Zemlyanov

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), which is known as Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA), is a powerful research tool for the study of the surface of solids. The technique …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2668

Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials

15 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

Prior studies on electron emission show possibly beneficial effects of nanoscale phenomena on energy-conversion characteristics. For example, recent work has shown that the electric field around a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2710

Technology challenges of the 21st Century

14 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eugene S. Meieran

The 20th century was a century of remarkable scientific and technical achievement, as recorded in the National Academy of Engineering book, "A Century of Innovation". Three forces ("a perfect storm") …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2669

Modeling and Analysis of VLSI Interconnects

10 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Cheng-Kok Koh

With continual technology scaling, the accurate and efficient modeling and simulation of interconnect effects have become problems of central importance. In order to accurately model the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2698

Nanotechnologies, Science and Society: Promises and Challenges

10 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): James Leary

James Leary (2007), "Nanotechnologies, Science and Society: Promises and Challenges," Purdue Bioethics Seminar Series, http://nanohub.org/resources/2691. Bioethics at Purdue The Graduate School …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2691

Nucleic Acids

07 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Don Bergstrom

Living organisms are self-assembling systems that achieve an enormous variety of functions through organization of components from sub-nanometer to meter scale. Understanding the functions of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2674

Solid-State Lighting: An Opportunity for Nanotechnologists to Address the Energy Challenge

25 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

More than one-fifth of the electrical power consumed in the U.S. is used for general illumination. Much of this energy is wasted to heat filaments in incandescent lamps, a century-old technology …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2647

Nanoscale Antenna Apertures

24 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Xianfan Xu

This presentation will discuss light concentration and enhancement in nanometer-scale ridge aperture antennas. Resent research, including numerical simulations and near field optical measurements has …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2642

Is Seeing Believing? How to Think Visually and Analyze with Both Your Eyes and Brain

26 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Ebert

This presentation will cover the basic techniques, and some of the available tools, for visualization, and will explain how to avoid miscommunicating information from visualizations.

https://nanohub.org/resources/2512

Toward Improving the Precision of Nanoscale Force-Displacement Measurements

13 Mar 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jason Clark

Nanotechnology has great potential for being used to create better medicines, materials, and sensors. With increasing interest in nanotechnology to improve the quality of our lives, there has …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2452

What Can the TEM Tell You About Your Nanomaterial?

26 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Stach

In this tutorial, I will present a brief overview of the ways that transmission electron microscopy can be used to characterize nanoscale materials. This tutorial will emphasize what TEM does well, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2359

Atomistic Alloy Disorder in Nanostructures

26 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Electronic structure and quantum transport simulations are typically performed in perfectly ordered semiconductor structures. Bands and modes are defined resulting in quantized conduction and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2350

Materials strength: does size matter? nanoMATERIALS simulation toolkit tutorial

01 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique to characterize the fundamental, atomic-level processes that govern materials behavior and is playing an important role in our understanding of the new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2322