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

Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering

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

Three part lecture on metamaterials. Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4262

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

Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

11 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Minghao Qi

A photonic crystal (PhCs) is typically a composite of a high-dielectric-constant material (e.g. Si) and a low-constant one (e.g. SiO2 or air), arranged periodically in space. Two dimensional examples …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3991

Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanocircuits

04 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Virginia M. Ayres

Catalyst-free vapor-solid nanowire growth, a newly described method for the production of nanowires compatible with a wide variety of semiconductor materials, has been used to produce novel …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3817

Developing Tools for nanoHUB.org

23 Jan 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The nanoHUB lets you access simulation tools online via an ordinary web browser. Where do the tools come from? From you--hundreds of you throughout the world who are developing nanotechnology …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3863

Nanometrology Room Design: The Performance and Characterization of the Kevin G. Hall Nanometrology Laboratory

22 Jan 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ron Reifenberger

This seminar summarizes the capabilities of the high accuracy Kevin G. Hall Laboratory which is located in Purdue’s newly completed Birck Nanotechnology Center. The seminar is primarily …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3779

Lectures on Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Materials

09 Jan 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

Molecular dynamics simulations are playing an increasingly important role in many areas of science and engineering, from biology and pharmacy to nanoelectronics and structural materials. Recent …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3675

Finite Size Scaling and Quantum Criticality

02 Jan 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sabre Kais

In statistical mechanics, the finite size scaling method provides a systematic way to extrapolate information about criticality obtained from a finite system to the thermodynamic limit. For quantum …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3526

NanoElectronic MOdeling: NEMO

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3707

HPCW Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI

05 Dec 2007 | 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/3357

Electrons in Two Dimensions: Quantum Corrals and Semiconductor Microstructures

04 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric J. Heller

The images generated by a scanning tunneling microscope are iconic. Some of the most famous are Don Eigler’s quantum corrals, which reveal not only the guest atoms on a surface but especially the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3253

Plastic Deformation at Micron and Submicron Scales

28 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Marisol Koslowski

Most people experiences the way objects plastically deform on a macroscopic scale. From a car crash to the bending of a paper clip plastic deformation occurs in the form of a smooth flow as a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3559

NCN Nanoelectronics: Tutorials

28 Nov 2007 | Series

From among the many tutorial lectures available on the nanoHUB, we list a few that convey new approaches to electronics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/3575