Welcoming Remarks

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

Opening remarks for the Purdue School on High Performance and Parallel Computing.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5661

Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

Single-session course illustrating message-passing techniques. The examples include point-to-point and collective communication using blocking and nonblocking transmission. One application …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5932

Software Productivity Tools

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

This presentation briefly describes the use of tar(1), make(1), the Portable Batch System (PBS), and two version control systems: CVS and subversion.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5937

Introduction to TotalView

24 Nov 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Seaman

This single-session course presents an introduction to the use of the TotalView parallel debugger available on Purdue's Linux systems.

https://nanohub.org/resources/5942

Affordable Clean Energy: Challenges and Opportunities

20 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Hukam C. Mongia

The technical presentation is built around the August 9th 2008 ABC News/Planet Green/Stanford Poll on Environment/Energy in which the majority of the people polled expressed support for the following …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5575

Modern X-ray Scattering Methods for Nanoscale Materials Analysis

15 Oct 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard J. Matyi

Since its discovery by von Laue in 1912, X-ray diffraction has become an indispensable tool for structure determinations in the physical and biological sciences. X-rays are characterized by high …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5580

C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science

18 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Anant K. Ramdas

Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5453

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

12 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Edward Gerjuoy

Quantum mechanics, as formulated more than 80 years ago by Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Dirac and other greats, is a wholly sufficient foundation for its modern interrelated subfields of quantum …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4778

Physics of Nanoscale Transistors: An Introduction to Electronics from the Bottom Up

10 Sep 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Transistor scaling has pushed channel lengths to the nanometer regime, and advances in nanoscience have opened up many new possibilities for devices. To realize these opportunities, our traditional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5207

Hierarchy of Simulation Approaches for Charge Transport Simulation

01 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Omar N Sobh, Umberto Ravaioli

General considerations Model simulation hierarchy Continuum model Particle Transport Monte Carlo model Examples of simulations Umberto Ravaioli - University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignNCN@Purdue …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5175

Some Physics for Proteins

03 Jun 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen M. Durbin

https://nanohub.org/resources/3308

Dynamics of Quantum Fluids: Path integral and Semiclassical Methods

21 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nancy Makri

The interplay of many-body nonlinear interactions and quantum mechanical effects such as zero-point motion or identical particle exchange symmetries lead to intriguing phenomena in low-temperature …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4584

Basics of Particle Adhesion

21 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stephen P. Beaudoin

This presentation will describe the adhesion of rough, asymmetric particles with micro- to nano-scale dimension to solid surfaces. These adhesion processes are of great interest in microelectronics …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3264

Metamaterials, Part 3: Cloaking and Transformation Optics

01 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

Part 3/3. Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus enabling a family of new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4269

Metamaterials, Part 2: Negative-Index, Nonlinear Optics and Super/Hyper-Lenses

01 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

Part 2/3. Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus enabling a family of new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4267

Metamaterials, Part 1: Electrical and Magnetic Metamaterials

01 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

Part 1/3. Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus enabling a family of new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4263

Tutorial for NanogromacsSenior

28 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dairui Chen

Breezed and uploaded by Cezary Wojtkowski University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

https://nanohub.org/resources/4446

Introduction to Quantum Dot Lab

31 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sunhee Lee, Hoon Ryu, Gerhard Klimeck

The nanoHUB tool "Quantum Dot Lab" allows users to compute the quantum mechanical "particle in a box" problem for a variety of different confinement shapes, such as boxes, ellipsoids, disks, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4194

Nanoelectronic Modeling: Multimillion Atom Simulations, Transport, and HPC Scaling to 23,000 Processors

07 Mar 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Future field effect transistors will be on the same length scales as “esoteric” devices such as quantum dots, nanowires, ultra-scaled quantum wells, and resonant tunneling diodes. In those …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3988

Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials

11 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

This presentation will describe thermal transport processes at solid-solid material interfaces. An overview of applications in the electronics industry will serve to motivate the subject, and then …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3985