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The Novel Nanostructures of Carbon
Online Presentations | 28 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Gene Dresselhaus
A brief review will be given of the physical underpinnings of carbon nanostructures that were developed over the past 60 years, starting with the electronic structure and physical properties of graphene and graphite, and then moving to graphite intercalation compounds which contained the first...
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What Promises do Nanotubes and Nanowires Hold for Future Nanoelectronics Applications?
Online Presentations | 18 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Joerg Appenzeller
Various low-dimensional materials are currently explored for future electronics applications. The common ground for all these structures is that the surface related impact can no longer be ignored – the common approach applied to predict properties of bulk-type three-dimensional (3D) materials....
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Heat Transfer across Solid Contacts Enhanced with Nanomaterials
Online Presentations | 11 Feb 2008 | 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 the basic diffusive constriction theory will be developed. The addition of carbon nanotube arrays to...
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Dynamics on the Nanoscale: Time-domain ab initio studies of quantum dots, carbon nanotubes and molecule-semiconductor interfaces
Online Presentations | 31 Jan 2008 | Contributor(s):: Oleg Prezhdo
Device miniaturization requires an understanding of the dynamical response of materials on the nanometer scale. A great deal of experimental and theoretical work has been devoted to characterizing the excitation, charge, spin, and vibrational dynamics in a variety of novel materials, including...
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Excellence in Computer Simulation: Computational Materials
Online Presentations | 20 Dec 2007 | Contributor(s):: Eric Schwegler
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 science and engineering.
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New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology
Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2007 | Contributor(s):: Kerry Bernstein
Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been able to keep up with improvements to the transistor, and its getting harder and harder to hide it! 3D...
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Association with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Online Presentations | 02 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Jennifer McDonald
Commercially available single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) tend to aggregate as ropes and bundles during production making them of little use in many scientific and industrial applications. An effective technique for dispersing and solubilizing SWCNTs is required to fully utilize their unique...
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The Effect of Physical Geometry on the Frequency Response of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors
Online Presentations | 03 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Dave Lyzenga
In order for carbon nanotube (CNT) electrical devices to be fabricated, it is necessary to obtain modifiable operation characteristics. Developing parametric equations to achieve this controllability in the vertical field-effect transistor (FET) design is an important first step toward...
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Introduction to CNTbands
Online Presentations | 28 Jun 2007 | Contributor(s):: James K Fodor, Jing Guo
This learning module introduces nanoHUB users to the CNTbands simulator. A brief introduction to CNTbands is presented, followed by voiced presentations featuring the simulator in action. Upon completion of this module, users should be able to use this simulator to gain valuable insight into...
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From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation
Online Presentations | 17 May 2007 | Contributor(s):: Eric Jakobsson
Modern chemistry research and high school chemistry education are separated by institutional and geographical boundaries. As such, much of secondary chemistry education is still based on the periodic table instead of the computational methods that drive current chemistry research. In this talk,...
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Electron Emission from Nanoscale Carbon Materials
Online Presentations | 15 May 2007 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
Prior studies on electron emission show possibly beneficial effects ofnanoscale phenomena on energy-conversion characteristics. For example,recent work has shown that the electric field around a nanoscale fieldemission device can increase the average energy of emitted electrons. Weconsider here...
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BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoelectronics and Semiconductor Devices
Online Presentations | 23 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: David Janes
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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BNC Annual Research Symposium: Nanoscale Energy Conversion
Online Presentations | 23 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Timothy S Fisher
This presentation is part of a collection of presentations describing the projects, people, and capabilities enhanced by research performed in the Birck Center, and a look at plans for the upcoming year.
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Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials
Online Presentations | 16 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott
The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional and twisting properties are considered in this study.
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Fouling Mechanisms in Y-shaped Carbon Nanotubes
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Jason Myers, SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott
In the modern pharmaceutical and chemical industries, solutions of extremely high purity are needed. Current filtration methods are reaching the limits of their abilities, so new filters must be developed. One possible filter is a Y-shaped carbon nanotube (Y-tube). By changing the sizes of the...
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CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology: a nanoFPGA-related study
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2007 | Contributor(s):: Wei Wang
Dr. Wei Wang received his PhD degree in 2002 from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, in Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 2002 to 2004, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada....
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MSE 376 Lecture 7: Carbon Nanomaterials, part 2
Online Presentations | 22 Mar 2007 | Contributor(s):: Mark C. Hersam
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MSE 376 Lecture 6: Carbon Nanomaterials, part 1
Online Presentations | 22 Mar 2007 | Contributor(s):: Mark C. Hersam
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MSE 376 Lecture 8: Carbon Nanomaterials, part 3
Online Presentations | 22 Mar 2007 | Contributor(s):: Mark C. Hersam
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What Can the TEM Tell You About Your Nanomaterial?
Online Presentations | 26 Feb 2007 | Contributor(s):: Eric Stach
In this tutorial, I will present a brief overview of the ways that transmission electron microscopy can be used to characterize nanoscale materials. This tutorial will emphasize what TEM does well, as well where difficulties arise. In particular, I will discuss in an overview manner how...