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Thermal Microsystems for On-Chip Thermal Engineering
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Suresh V. Garimella
Electro-thermal co-design at the micro- and nano-scales is critical for achieving desired performance and reliability in microelectronic circuits. Emerging thermal microsystems technologies for this application area are discussed, with specific examples including a novel micromechanical...
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Using Condor
Online Presentations | 21 Mar 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alain Roy
In this talk, Alain Roy describes details of how to use Condor to run jobs on your local batch system. It is presumed that you have already installed Condor and wish to learn the basics of submitting jobs.
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Electron and Ion Microscopies as Characterization Tools for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Online Presentations | 27 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: Eric Stach
This tutorial presents a broad overview of the basic physical principles of techniques used in scanning electron microscopy (SEM), as well as their application to understanding processing/structure/property relationships in nanostructured materials. Special emphasis is placed on the capabilities...
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Engineering Nanomedical Systems
Online Presentations | 06 Mar 2006 | 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) to control a multi-sequence process of targeting to rare cells in-vivo, re-targeting to...
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Making the Tiniest and Fastest Transistor using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
Online Presentations | 13 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: peide 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 nanoscale ultrathin films of metals, semiconductors and insulators. This presentation introduces ALD...
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A Gentle Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience
Online Presentations | 13 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: Mark 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 in nanoscale research - what, why and how. Specific topics include assembly, properties,...
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An Overview of Virtualization Techniques
Online Presentations | 03 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: Renato Figueiredo
This presentation presents an introduction to resource virtualizationtechniques, which are one of the foundations of the infrastructure foronline simulation provided by the nanoHUB.
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A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation
Online Presentations | 23 Jan 2006 | 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 hood." This talk is a tutorial introduction designed for someone using semiconductor...
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part II: PDE Systems
Online Presentations | 20 Jan 2006 | Contributor(s):: Yang Liu, Robert Dutton
Part II uses examples toillustrate how to build user-defined PDE systems in PROPHET.
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part I: Basics
Online Presentations | 20 Jan 2006 | Contributor(s):: Yang Liu, Robert Dutton
Part I covers the basics of PROPHET,including the set-up of simulation structures and parameters based onpre-defined PDE systems.
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Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET
Series | 20 Jan 2006 | 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 users the flexibility of integrating new models and equations for their nano-device simulations. The...
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A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach
Online Presentations | 14 Jun 2004 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach
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Hierarchical Physical Models for Analysis of Electrostatic Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)
Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2006 | 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 Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS). Numerical results will be presented for several silicon...
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Quantum Corrections for Monte Carlo Simulation
Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2006 | 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 corrections for size quantization. Monte Carlo particle simulators are good candidates, because a...
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Atomic Force Microscopy
Online Presentations | 01 Dec 2005 | 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 physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics of the...
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Quantum Chemistry Part II
Online Presentations | 08 Jul 2004 | Contributor(s):: George C. Schatz
This tutorial will provide an overview of electronic structure calculations from achemist's perspective. This will include a review of the basic electronic structuretheories.
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First Principles-based Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Materials
Online Presentations | 01 Dec 2005 | 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) simulations and iii) mesoscale modeling, together with the strategies to bridge between them. These...
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Designing Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Materials
Online Presentations | 08 Nov 2005 | 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 inherent to coupled electronic and thermal transport properties.
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Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics
Online Presentations | 01 Nov 2005 | 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 to be included in the device modeling. Atomistic bandstructure effects in resonant tunneling...
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Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly for Biological Sensing
Online Presentations | 25 Oct 2005 | 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 antibody based sensing for over twenty years and is the basis for a many of the point-of-use diagnostic...