Tags: education/outreach
Part of our mission is to help educators incorporate nanotechnology into their offerings.
The following resources are related to education and outreach efforts.
Resources
Tools
- 6.6 Ranking Tejerina: UV/Vis Spectra simulator
- 6.4 Ranking Tejerina: Molecular Structure Tracer
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6.1 Ranking Tejerina: CNDO/INDO
CNDO/INDO
Type Tools Contributor(s) Baudilio Tejerina, Jeff Reimers Date 29 Feb. 2008 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital calculations.
Online Presentations
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10.0 Ranking Lundstrom: Moore's Law Forever?
Moore's Law Forever?
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom Date 10 Aug. 2005 Avg. Rating (4) Rate this In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors on a silicon chip doubled every technology generation (12 months at that time, currently 18-24 months). He predicted that this trend would continue for a while. Forty years later, Moore's Law continues to hold. Since the number of ...
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10.0 Ranking Lundstrom: Simple Theory of the Ballistic ...
Simple Theory of the Ballistic MOSFET
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom Date 19 Oct. 2005 Avg. Rating (2) Rate this 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 ...
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10.0 Ranking Raman: Atomic Force Microscopy
Atomic Force Microscopy
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Arvind Raman Date 29 Nov. 2005 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this 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 ...
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10.0 Ranking Liu: Nano-Scale Device Simulations ...
Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Yang Liu, Robert Dutton, Yang Liu Date 22 Jan. 2006 Avg. Rating (2) Rate this 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. ...
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10.0 Ranking Fisher: Understanding Phonon Dynamics via ...
Understanding Phonon Dynamics via 1D Atomic Chains
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Timothy S Fisher Date 28 Aug. 2006 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this 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 ...
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10.0 Ranking Sands: Nanotubes and Nanowires: ...
Nanotubes and Nanowires: One-dimensional Materials
Type Online Presentations Contributor(s) Timothy D. Sands Date 17 Jul. 2006 Avg. Rating (6) Rate this What is a nanowire? What is a nanotube? Why are they interesting and what are their potential applications? How are they made? This presentation is intended to begin to answer these questions while introducing some fundamental concepts such as wave-particle duality, quantum confinement, the ...
Courses
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9.4 Ranking Datta: Quantum Transport: Atom to ...
Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor
Type Courses Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta Date 07 Aug. 2006 Avg. Rating (21) Rate this The development of "nanotechnology" has made it possible to engineer materials and devices on a length scale as small as several nanometers (atomic distances are ~ 0.1 nm). The properties of such "nanostructures" cannot be described in terms of macroscopic parameters like mobility and diffusion ...
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1.2 Ranking Curriculum on Nanotechnology
Curriculum on Nanotechnology
Type Courses Contributor(s) Date 27 Jan. 2005 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this The NCN seeks to bring the new understanding emerging from research in nanoscience into the graduate and undergraduate curriculum. We are now at the dawn of what might be a new era in technology, but to exploit the opportunities that nanoscience is giving us, engineers will need to learn how to ...
Teaching Materials
- 10.0 Ranking Liu: Nano-Scale Device Simulations ...
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10.0 Ranking Serrano: Nanotechnology and Visible Light
Nanotechnology and Visible Light
Type Teaching Materials Contributor(s) Raymond Serrano Date 19 Dec. 2006 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this This submission is an undergraduate project by Raymond Serrano, a chemistry student at UTEP. Raymond has been a nanoHUB student for one year. In addition to being factor of scale, nanoscience is also defined by the changes in the physical and chemical properties the nanoparticles. This ...
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9.2 Ranking Torres: X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy ...
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
Type Teaching Materials Contributor(s) David Echevarria Torres Date 14 Dec. 2006 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this The XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) it is also known as ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). This technique is based on the theory of the photoelectric effect that was developed by Einstein, yet it was Dr. Siegbahn and his research group who developed the XPS technique. The ...
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8.4 Ranking Bonilla: Molecular Orbital Theory
Molecular Orbital Theory
Type Teaching Materials Contributor(s) Luis Emmanuel Bonilla Date 18 Dec. 2006 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this This is the seventh contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. Luis Bonilla and Abel Perez have designed a presentation on molecular orbital theory for high school students.Abel Perez: I obtained my BS at Instituto ...
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8.4 Ranking Gardner: Nanotechnology in Biology
Nanotechnology in Biology
Type Teaching Materials Contributor(s) Elizabeth Gardner Date 31 Aug. 2006 Avg. Rating (2) Rate this This is the first of two exercises developed by El Paso High School teachers as part of a two week workshop on nanotechnology education, part of the National Center for Learning and Teaching of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT) Professional Development Workshop held June 19-30, 2006 at the ...
Animations
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10.0 Ranking Vargo: 3D Molecular Models
3D Molecular Models
Type Animations Contributor(s) Nicholas Vargo Date 26 Jun. 2007 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this This animation was created as part of the Children's Museum Nanotechnology Exhibit to give the viewer an idea of what objects look like at the nano-level. The molecules range from something as small as caffeine to major proteins and viruses.Nicholas Vargo created this kiosk presentation as an ...
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8.0 Ranking LSPM Team: What is a Nanometer?
What is a Nanometer?
Type Animations Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team Date 02 Apr. 2005 Avg. Rating (7) Rate this Join Laura and Martin on a wild ride through the milliworld and the microworld to reach the nanoworld. Along the way, they discover how small a nanometer truly is.
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7.9 Ranking LSPM Team: Nanomanufacturing: Top-Down and ...
Nanomanufacturing: Top-Down and Bottom-Up
Type Animations Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team Date 15 Mar. 2005 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this Martin presents an overview of nanomanufacturing techniques, explaining the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches.
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7.9 Ranking LSPM Team: Nano/Bio Connection
Nano/Bio Connection
Type Animations Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team Date 02 Apr. 2005 Avg. Rating (2) Rate this Nanotechnology is not just a topic for physicists, chemists, and engineers. Laura explains the important role of biologists in this field, and shows how they may help provide clues to molecular assembly techniques.
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7.7 Ranking LSPM Team: Scanning Probe Microscopes
Scanning Probe Microscopes
Type Animations Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team Date 15 Mar. 2005 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this Laura explains how scanning probe microscopes can be used to create images of small devices, molecules, and even atoms! A large-scale version of the scanning probe microscope is built out of Legos to show the basic principles.
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6.5 Ranking LSPM Team: Feasibility of Molecular ...
Feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing
Type Animations Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team Date 15 Mar. 2005 Avg. Rating (3) Rate this Martin and Laura have an interesting debate about the feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing. Can molecular assemblers be developed to create new materials, new devices, and even macroscopic objects? Find out... If Martin ever wakes up!
Downloads
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9.7 Ranking Palaria: A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock ...
A MATLAB code for Hartree Fock calculation of H-H ground state bondlength and energy using STO-4G
Type Downloads Contributor(s) Amritanshu Palaria Date 08 Aug. 2006 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this Hartree Fock (HF) theory is one of the basic theories underlying the current understanding of the electronic structure of materials. It is a simple non-relativistic treatment of many electron system that accounts for the antisymmetric (fermion) nature of electronic wavefunction but does not account ...
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8.8 Ranking Datta: MATLAB Scripts for "Quantum ...
MATLAB Scripts for "Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor"
Type Downloads Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta Date 15 Mar. 2005 Avg. Rating (2) Rate this Tinker with quantum transport models! Download the MATLAB scripts used to demonstrate the physics described in Supriyo Datta's book Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor. These simple models are less than a page of code, and yet they reproduce much of the fundamental physics observed in experiments.
Workshops
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10.0 Ranking 2006 Summer Undergraduate Research ...
2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Program Conference
Type Workshops Contributor(s) Date 07 Dec. 2006 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this The NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing and NSF Network for Computating Nanotechnology offers qualifying students the opportunity to become Summer Undergraduate Research Interns (SURIs). SURIs join an ongoing cross-disciplinary research project team comprised of faculty and graduate ...
- 10.0 Ranking 2004 Computational Materials ...
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9.6 Ranking Transforming Society through ...
Transforming Society through Emerging Technologies: The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) at Five Years
Type Workshops Contributor(s) Date 19 Apr. 2006 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this The future is filled with possibilities, and breakthrough sciences such as nanotechnology are moving us ever closer to the next scientific revolution. Purdue University is proud to facilitate such progress through the inaugural Discovery Lecture Series seminar, "Transforming Society through ...
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7.4 Ranking NEMS Workshop
NEMS Workshop
Type Workshops Contributor(s) Date 28 Dec. 2004 Avg. Rating (0) Rate this The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) held a workshop entitled Challenges and Opportunities in the Development of Nanoelectromechanical Systems on April, 8, 2005. The workshop was held at the Entrepreneurship Center at Purdue University and featured presentations and discussion on ...
- 7.2 Ranking SURI 2003 Conference
- 0.0 Ranking SURI 2004 Conference
Series
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10.0 Ranking NCLT Seminar Series
NCLT Seminar Series
Type Series Contributor(s) Date 23 Nov. 2005 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering. (NCLT). The mission of NCLT is to develop the next generation of leaders in NSE teaching and learning, with an emphasis on NSEE capacity building, providing a strong impact on national STEM education. The guiding theme ...
- 10.0 Ranking NCN Nanoelectronics: Research ...
- 10.0 Ranking NCN Nanoelectronics: Courses
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9.7 Ranking Nanotechnology 101 Lecture Series
Nanotechnology 101 Lecture Series
Type Series Contributor(s) Date 13 Sep. 2004 Avg. Rating (3) Rate this Nanotechnology 101 is a series of lectures designed to provide an undergraduate level introduction to nanotechnology. Our Nanotechnology 501 series offers lectures directed at the graduate student/professional level.
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9.5 Ranking Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series
Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series
Type Series Contributor(s) Date 22 Feb. 2005 Avg. Rating (4) Rate this Nanotechnology 501 is 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.
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7.4 Ranking SLC@Northwestern: NCN at Northwestern: Student ...
NCN at Northwestern: Student Leadership Council Seminars
Type Series Contributor(s) NCN SLC@Northwestern Date 05 Nov. 2006 Avg. Rating (1) Rate this This series is organized by NCN students at Northwestern University. Speakers are invited by the Student Leadership Council to visit Northwestern to interact with students and faculty, and to present a research seminar on their research in Computational Nanotechnology. Significant interaction ...
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