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Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series

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Welcome to the Nanotechnology 501, a series of lectures designed to provide an introduction to nanotechnology. This series is similar to our popular Nanotechnology 101 series, but directed at the graduate student/professional level.

Join the Nano501 mailing list for notices of upcoming (live) tutorials or for notification of when new tutorials for this series become available on the nanoHUB.

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  1. Plasmonic Nanophotonics: Coupling Light to Nanostructure via Plasmons

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    04 Oct. 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

    The photon is the ultimate unit of information because it packages data in a signal of zero mass and has unmatched speed. The power of light is driving the photonicrevolution, and information technologies, which were formerly entirely electronic, are increasingly enlisting light to communicate and …

  2. Simple Theory of the Ballistic MOSFET

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    19 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 describe a simple analysis of the ballistic MOSFET. No MOSFET is truly ballistic, but …

  3. Atomic Force Microscopy

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    29 Nov. 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Arvind Raman

    Atomic Force Microscopy is has become an indispensible tool in nanoscience for the fabrication, metrology, manipulation and property characterization of nanostructures. In this tutorial, we will review the physics of the interaction forces between the nanoscale tip and sample, the dynamics …

  4. Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET

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

    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. …

  5. Engineering Nanomedical Systems

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

    This tutorial will cover general problems and approaches to the design of engineered nanomedical systems. An example to be covered is the engineering design of programmable multilayered nanoparticles (PMNP) to control a multi-sequence process of targeting to rare cells in-vivo, re-targeting …

  6. Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains

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    28 Aug. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

    Phonons are the principal carriers of thermal energy in semiconductors and insulators, and they serve a vital role in dissipating heat produced by scattered electrons in semiconductor devices. Despite the importance of phonons, rigorous understanding and inclusion of phonon dynamics in simulations …

  7. A Primer on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)

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    04 Apr. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ron Reifenberger

    Scanning Probe Microscopes and their remarkable ability to provide three-dimensional maps of surfaces at the nanometer length scale have arguably been the most important tool in establishing the world-wide emergence of Nanotechnology. In this talk, the fundamental ideas behind the first scanning …

  8. MATLAB DOs and DON'Ts

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    14 May. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dmitri Nikonov

    Matlab is widely used for simulations but is believed to be unsuitable for complex projects and to produce slow-running software tools. The presentation argues that blind copying of methods typical of C and Fortran is responsible for such inefficiencies. It teaches how to avoid these …

  9. Design of CMOS Circuits in the Nanometer Regime: Leakage Tolerance

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    28 Nov. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

    Scaling of technology over the last few decades has produced an exponential growth in computing power of integrated circuits and an unprecedented number of transistors integrated into a single. However, scaling is facing several problems — severe short channel effects, exponential increase in …

  10. A Primer on Quantum Computing

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    18 Oct. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David D. Nolte

    Quantum computers would represent an exponential increase in computing power...if they can be built. This tutorial describes the theoretical background to quantum computing, its potential for several specific applications, and the demanding challenges facing practical implementation. The …

  11. Design in the Nanometer Regime: Process Variation

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    29 Nov. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kaushik Roy

    Scaling of technology over the last few decades has produced an exponential growth in computing power of integrated circuits and an unprecedented number of transistors integrated into a single. However, scaling is facing several problems — severe short channel effects, exponential increase in …

  12. Geometry of Diffusion and the Performance Limits of Nanobiosensors

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    05 Dec. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam, Pradeep R. Nair

    Modern methods of detection of biomolecules for differential genome sequencing, protein recognition, etc. rely on variety of chemical and optical methods to signal the conjugation of target biomolecules with corresponding capture probes. Although these classical methods are widely used, extremely …

  13. RF MEMS: Passive Components and Architectures

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    08 Jan. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dimitrios Peroulis

    This seminar is an introduction to the MEMS technology as it applies to RF and Microwave systems. Besides discussing several key RF MEMS components (switches, varactors, inductors), reconfigurable circuit architectures will also be introduced. In addition, reliability and cost considerations as …

  14. CQT: Concepts of Quantum Transport

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    08 Dec. 2006 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

    How does the resistance of a conductor change as we shrink its length all the way down to a few atoms? This is a question that has intrigued scientists for a long time, but it is only during the last twenty years that it has become possible for experimentalists to provide clear answers, …

  15. Materials strength: does size matter? nanoMATERIALS simulation toolkit tutorial

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    01 Feb. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

    Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique to characterize the fundamental, atomic-level processes that govern materials behavior and is playing an important role in our understanding of the new phenomena that arises in nanoscale and nanostructured materials and result in their unique …

  16. Is Seeing Believing? How to Think Visually and Analyze with Both Your Eyes and Brain

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    26 Mar. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): David Ebert

    In this talk, I will cover the basic techniques for visualization, some of the tools available, and how to NOT miscommunicate information from your visualizations.

  17. Nanoscale Antenna Apertures

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    24 Apr. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Xianfan Xu

    This presentation will discuss light concentration and enhancement in nanometer-scale ridge aperture antennas. Resent research, including numerical simulations and near field optical measurements has demonstrated that nanoscale ridge antenna apertures can concentrate light into nanometer domain. …

  18. Solid-State Lighting: An Opportunity for Nanotechnologists to Address the Energy Challenge

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    25 Apr. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Timothy D. Sands

    More than one-fifth of the electrical power consumed in the U.S. is used for general illumination. Much of this energy is wasted to heat filaments in incandescent lamps, a century-old technology with an efficiency of about 5%. Fluorescent lighting is more efficient, but problems of color quality, …

  19. SPMW The Nanomechanics of compositional mapping in amplitude modulation AFM

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    11 May. 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ricardo Garcia

    Amplitude modulation atomic force microscopy (AM-AFM) has been very successful for imaging with high spatial resolution inorganic as well as soft materials such as polymers, living cells and single biomolecules in their natural environment [1]. The ability of AM-AFM to separate topography from …

  20. Electron and Ion Microscopies as Characterization Tools for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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    17 Mar. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eric Stach

    Electron and ion microscopy techniques allow one to obtain high spatial resolution images and spectroscopic information of both the surface and internal structure of nanostructured materials. In this tutorial, I will present a broad overview of the basic physical principles that underly the …

  21. The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics

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    11 Apr. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

    In recent years, there has been enormous interest in fabricating thin-film transistors on flexible substrates in the emerging field of large-area macro-electronics. Applications include displays, e- paper, e-clothing, pressure-sensitive skin, large-area chemical and biological sensors, flexible …

  22. First Principles-based Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Materials

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    16 Nov. 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

    The quantitativelly accurate prediction of materials behavior from first principles requires the chracterization of a wide range of phenomena with disparate temporal and spatial scales form electrons and atoms to devices. No single theory of computational model can capture all these phenomena …

  23. Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics

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

    Electrical Engineering curricula typically only touch the bandstructure of solids early in the introduction of solid state devices. Critical parameters such as bandedges, effective masses and degeneracies are extracted from the bandstructure and the atomistic details of the origin of the abstract …

  24. Scientific Ethics and the Signs of Voodoo Science

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    18 Oct. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew S. Hirsch

    Until recently, the issue of research ethics had not been a subject of explicit discussion within the Physics community. Over the past ten years, however, documented cases of scientific fraud have brought this issue to center stage. We will explore, through case studies, some examples …

  25. Switching Energy in CMOS Logic: How far are we from physical limit?

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    24 Apr. 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Saibal Mukhopadhyay

    Aggressive scaling of CMOS devices in technology generation has resulted in exponential growth in device performance, integration density and computing power. However, the power dissipated by a silicon chip is also increasing in every generation and emerging as a major bottleneck to technology …

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    Posted on 05 March, 2007 by Anonymous

    This is a very powerful list of tutorials. It would be nice to find better ways to search through this long list.

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    Posted on 25 April, 2006 by Anonymous

    Extremely Helpful contents for all categories of research personals.