Engineering Nanomedical Systems

06 Mar 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): James Leary

This tutorial discusses general problems and approaches to the design of engineered nanomedical systems. One example given is the engineering design of programmable multilayered nanoparticles (PMNP) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1093

Making the Tiniest and Fastest Transistor using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Peide "Peter" Ye

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is an emerging nanotechnology enables the deposit of ultrathin films, one atomic layer by one atomic layer. ALD provides a powerful, new capability to grow or regrow …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1015

A Gentle Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience

13 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark A. Ratner

While the Greek root nano just means dwarf, the nanoscale has become a giant focus of contemporary science and technology. We will examine the fundamental issues underlying the excitement involved …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1021

An Overview of Virtualization Techniques

03 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Renato Figueiredo

This presentation presents an introduction to resource virtualization techniques, which are one of the foundations of the infrastructure for online simulation provided by the nanoHUB.

https://nanohub.org/resources/1009

A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

23 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Computer simulation is now an essential tool for the research and development of semiconductor processes and devices, but to use a simulation tool intelligently, one must know what's "under the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/980

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part II: PDE Systems

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

Part II uses examples to illustrate how to build user-defined PDE systems in PROPHET.

https://nanohub.org/resources/975

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part I: Basics

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

Part I covers the basics of PROPHET, including the set-up of simulation structures and parameters based on pre-defined PDE systems.

https://nanohub.org/resources/974

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

These two lectures are aimed to give a practical guide to the use of a general device simulator (PROPHET) available on nanoHUB. PROPHET is a partial differential equation (PDE) solver that offers …

https://nanohub.org/resources/973

A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach

14 Jun 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach

https://nanohub.org/resources/934

Hierarchical Physical Models for Analysis of Electrostatic Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)

05 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Narayan Aluru

This talk will introduce hierarchical physical models and efficient computational techniques for coupled analysis of electrical, mechanical and van der Waals energy domains encountered in …

https://nanohub.org/resources/850

Quantum Corrections for Monte Carlo Simulation

05 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Umberto Ravaioli

Size quantization is an important effect in modern scaled devices. Due to the cost and limitations of available full quantum approaches, it is appealing to extend semi-classical simulators by adding …

https://nanohub.org/resources/847

Atomic Force Microscopy

01 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an indispensible tool in nano science for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation, and property characterization of nanostructures. This tutorial reviews some of the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/520

Quantum Chemistry Part II

08 Jul 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George C. Schatz

This tutorial will provide an overview of electronic structure calculations from a chemist's perspective. This will include a review of the basic electronic structure theories.

https://nanohub.org/resources/500

First Principles-based Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Materials

01 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This tutorial will describe some of the most powerful and widely used techniques for materials modeling including i) first principles quantum mechanics (QM), ii) large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/434

Designing Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials

08 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

This tutorial reviews recent strategies for designing high-ZT nanostructured materials, including superlattices, embedded quantum dots, and nanowire composites. The tutorial highlights the challenges …

https://nanohub.org/resources/383

Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics

01 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation will highlight, for nanoelectronic device examples, how the effective mass approximation breaks down and why the quantum mechanical nature of the atomically resolved material needs …

https://nanohub.org/resources/381

Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly for Biological Sensing

25 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gil Lee

Nanoparticles have unique physical and chemical properties that make them very useful for biological and chemical sensing. For example, colloidal gold has been used as an optical transducer for …

https://nanohub.org/resources/386

Simple Theory of the Ballistic MOSFET

11 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

Silicon nanoelectronics has become silicon nanoelectronics, but we still analyze, design, and think about MOSFETs in more or less in the same way that we did 30 years ago. In this talk, I will …

https://nanohub.org/resources/491

Semiconductor Interfaces at the Nanoscale

17 Oct 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Janes

The trend in downscaling of electronic devices and the need to add functionalities such as sensing and nonvolatile memory to existing circuitry dictate that new approaches be developed for device …

https://nanohub.org/resources/196

Einstein/Bohr Debate and Quantum Computing

10 May 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Karl Hess

This presentation deals with the Einstein/Bohr Debate and Quantum Computing.

https://nanohub.org/resources/384