2021 National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan

The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) recently released the 2021 National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Strategic Plan. nanoHUB is proud to play a role along with many other projects in the nanotechnology community to support this initiative over the next five years.

Read the full plan here.

Semiconductor Workforce Development

Now Available on nanoHUB: Educational Version of Thermo-Calc

With the recent addition of the Thermo-Calc Software Education Package on nanoHUB, we are seeking teaching materials from instructors. If you have any Thermo-Calc related homework assignments, problem sets, tutorials, video demos or other items designed for teaching, please consider making them available on nanoHUB.

Learn how to submit teaching materials by viewing How to Submit Teaching Materials: A Quick Tutorial in the New Resources section below.

When publishing a new resource in nanoHUB, it's beneficial to include the resource URL in the footer of all pages in the publication. This ensures that users can easily navigate back to the full resource page from any of the document components.

You can determine the resource URL for the resource before it is published. When you get to Step 3 of the publishing process (as shown in this tutorial video at around 8:27), you can see the resource number in the URL. It will have a form such as: https://nanohub.org/resources/draft/nnnnnn?step=3, where nnnnnn is the assigned resource number. Your resource’s final URL will be of the form: https://nanohub.org/resources/nnnnnn. Now you have the URL of your new resource!

Join NCN's nanoBIO node for their Spring Recitation series on simulation in education. These workshops are intended for researchers and educators to examine implementations of nanoBIO and other cloud-based applications in educational settings.

How to Submit Teaching Materials: A Quick Tutorial

This short tutorial demonstrates how to publish teaching materials on nanoHUB.

Teaching material consist of any material that might assist another instructor in teaching subject material, including homework assignments, tutorials, presentation materials or any other materials designed for teaching.

Private sharing (e.g. solution sets) is available in nanoHUB. Instructors who have questions are welcome to contact nanoHUB support at contact@nanohub.org.

Recitation Series for Semiconductor Education

In this series, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck introduces the ABACUS tool suite, which includes simulations of crystal structures and lattices, bandstructure and band models, bulk semiconductors, PN Junctions, Bipolar Junction Transistors, MOS Capacitors, and MOSFETs. The objective of this recitation series is to enable faculty to enhance semiconductor classes with interactive simulations and engage students in more active forms of learning.

The ABACUS group page highlights features of the component apps along with illustrative animations.

ML-based Surrogate Models for Nusselt Number and Friction Factor Prediction in Constant Cross-Section

The ML-based Surrogate Models tool predicts the fully-developed laminar Nusselt number (Nu) and friction factor for any cross-sectional shape of a flow channel. The Nusselt number prediction is available for two different constant heat flux boundary conditions, H1 and H2. The tool also presents a demo for different cross-sections.

Monte Carlo Electron Dynamics

The Monte Carlo Electron Dynamics tool simulates non-stationary electron transport in emerging semiconductors including beta gallium oxide using Monte Carlo approach. It is useful to study how particle distribution function evolves in time and allows the user to extract velocity-field and mobility characteristics. A model for surface roughness, based on Ando's formalism, has also been included into the simulator.