Nanoelectronics 101

28 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Semiconductor device technology has transformed our world with supercomputers, personal computers, cell phones, ipods, and much more that we now take for granted. Moore's Law, posited by Intel …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1737

Scientific Ethics and the Signs of Voodoo Science

18 Oct 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew S. Hirsch

Until recently, the issue of research ethics had not been a subject of explicit discussion within the Physics community. Over the past ten years, however, documented cases of scientific fraud …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1898

Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains

04 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

Phonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they serve a vital role in dissipating heat produced by scattered electrons in semiconductor devices. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1186

Conversion of Movie Files to Flash SWFs for Use in Breeze Presentations

17 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz

https://nanohub.org/resources/1727

Conversion of Animated GIFs to Flash SWFs for Use in Breeze Presentations

17 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz

This guided tutorial explains the process of how to convert an animated GIF into a Flash SWF which can then be inserted into a Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. The tutorial uses Adobe …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1728

Insertion of Flash SWFs into Breeze Presentations

17 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz

This guided tutorial explains the process for inserting movie files as Flash SWFs into your Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. Guided tutorials are available which explain the process of how to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1729

Microphone Selection and Comparison: Hear the Difference

08 Aug 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joseph M. Cychosz

Selecting a microphone can be a difficult task. For presentations, the quality is very much dependent upon the audio clarity and quality of the naration. For meetings, quality can be somewhat less. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1711

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

How to Breezify Your Presentation and Publish it on the nanoHUB

09 Jul 2006 | 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/1628

Exploring Electron Transfer with Density Functional Theory

11 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Troy Van Voorhis

This talk will highlight several illustrative applications of constrained density functional theory (DFT) to electron transfer dynamics in electronic materials. The kinetics of these reactions are …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1566

What is "Nanofluidics"? or The Nano-izing of Fluid Mechanics

28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Steve Wereley

Micro- and nanoscaled fluid mechanics are rapidly emerging as important supporting fields in biomedical technology, nanotechnology, etc., as well as being important fields of study in their own …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1604

Giving Talks and Posters That People Would Actually Like to See

28 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jerry M. Woodall

Other than getting a college degree, being able to communicate technical results to non experts (and even experts) in a simple and easily understandable way is critical to a future successful career …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1599

Vector Free Energy Calculation with Adaptive Biasing Force

18 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric F Darve

This presentation discusses recent numerical methods to calculate the free energy as a function of a reaction coordinate for bio-molecules. Free energy is often called potential of mean force and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1589

NanoMOS 3.0: First-Time User Guide

06 Jun 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kurtis Cantley, Mark Lundstrom

This tutorial is an introduction to the nanoMOS simulation tool for new users. Descriptions of input and output parameters are included, along with new features associated with the Rappture …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1533

Random Lasers

19 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mikhail A. Noginov

Random lasers are the simplest sources of stimulated emission without cavity, with the feedback provided by scattering in a gain medium. First proposed in the late 60’s, random lasers have …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1311

MATLAB DOs and DON'Ts

14 May 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitri Nikonov

Matlab is widely used for simulations but is believed to be unsuitable for complex projects and to produce slow-running software tools. The presentation argues that blind copying of methods typical …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1279

Switching Energy in CMOS Logic: How far are we from physical limit?

24 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Aggressive scaling of CMOS devices in technology generation has resulted in exponential growth in device performance, integration density and computing power. However, the power dissipated by a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1250

The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics

11 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

In recent years, there has been enormous interest in the emerging field of large-area macro-electronics, and fabricating thin-film transistors on flexible substrates. This talk will cover recent …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1214

Introduction to Condor

06 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alain Roy

In this talk, Alain Roy introduces Condor and the Condor Project at a very high-level. Condor's matchmaking technologies are discussed, as well as Condor's grid capablities.

https://nanohub.org/resources/1208

Tutorial on Using Micelle-MD

05 Apr 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Patrick Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan Sinnott

This is a tutorial using Micelle-MD. This includes the main capabilities, computation procedure, with format of files generated, and the simulation setup, which includes the material models …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1193