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Online Presentations

  • 10.0 Ranking Lundstrom: Moore's Law Forever?

    Moore's Law Forever?

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Mark Lundstrom
    Date 10 Aug. 2005
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    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 ...

  • 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
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    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 ...

  • 10.0 Ranking Raman: Atomic Force Microscopy

    Atomic Force Microscopy

    Type Online Presentations
    Contributor(s) Arvind Raman
    Date 29 Nov. 2005
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    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 ...

  • 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
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    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. ...

  • 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
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    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 ...

  • 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
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    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 ...

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Courses

  • 9.4 Ranking Datta: Quantum Transport: Atom to ...

    Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor

    Type Courses
    Contributor(s) Supriyo Datta
    Date 07 Aug. 2006
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    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 ...

  • 1.2 Ranking   Curriculum on Nanotechnology

    Curriculum on Nanotechnology

    Type Courses
    Contributor(s)
    Date 27 Jan. 2005
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    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 ...

    Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 1

    Type Teaching Materials
    Contributor(s) Yang Liu
    Date 08 Feb. 2006
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    Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".

  • 10.0 Ranking Liu: Nano-Scale Device Simulations ...

    Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 2

    Type Teaching Materials
    Contributor(s) Yang Liu
    Date 08 Feb. 2006
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    Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".

  • 10.0 Ranking Serrano: Nanotechnology and Visible Light

    Nanotechnology and Visible Light

    Type Teaching Materials
    Contributor(s) Raymond Serrano
    Date 19 Dec. 2006
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    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 ...

  • 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
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    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 ...

  • 8.4 Ranking Bonilla: Molecular Orbital Theory

    Molecular Orbital Theory

    Type Teaching Materials
    Contributor(s) Luis Emmanuel Bonilla
    Date 18 Dec. 2006
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    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 ...

  • 8.4 Ranking Gardner: Nanotechnology in Biology

    Nanotechnology in Biology

    Type Teaching Materials
    Contributor(s) Elizabeth Gardner
    Date 31 Aug. 2006
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    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 ...

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Animations

  • 10.0 Ranking Vargo: 3D Molecular Models

    3D Molecular Models

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) Nicholas Vargo
    Date 26 Jun. 2007
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    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 ...

  • 8.0 Ranking LSPM Team: What is a Nanometer?

    What is a Nanometer?

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 02 Apr. 2005
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    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.

  • 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
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    Martin presents an overview of nanomanufacturing techniques, explaining the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches.

  • 7.9 Ranking LSPM Team: Nano/Bio Connection

    Nano/Bio Connection

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 02 Apr. 2005
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    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.

  • 7.7 Ranking LSPM Team: Scanning Probe Microscopes

    Scanning Probe Microscopes

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 15 Mar. 2005
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    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.

  • 6.5 Ranking LSPM Team: Feasibility of Molecular ...

    Feasibility of Molecular Manufacturing

    Type Animations
    Contributor(s) EPICS LSPM Team
    Date 15 Mar. 2005
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    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!

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Downloads

  • 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
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    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 ...

  • 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
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    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

  • 10.0 Ranking   2006 Summer Undergraduate Research ...

    2006 Summer Undergraduate Research Intern Program Conference

    Type Workshops
    Contributor(s)
    Date 07 Dec. 2006
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    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 ...

    2004 Computational Materials Science Summer School

    Type Workshops
    Contributor(s)
    Date 29 Aug. 2005
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    This short course will explore a range of computational approaches relevant for nanotechnology.

  • 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
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    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 ...

  • 7.4 Ranking   NEMS Workshop

    NEMS Workshop

    Type Workshops
    Contributor(s)
    Date 28 Dec. 2004
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    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

    SURI 2003 Conference

    Type Workshops
    Contributor(s)
    Date 21 Apr. 2004
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    2003 SURI Conference Proceedings

  • 0.0 Ranking   SURI 2004 Conference

    SURI 2004 Conference

    Type Workshops
    Contributor(s)
    Date 15 Aug. 2004
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    SURI 2004 Conference Proceedings

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Series

  • 10.0 Ranking   NCLT Seminar Series

    NCLT Seminar Series

    Type Series
    Contributor(s)
    Date 23 Nov. 2005
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    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 ...

    NCN Nanoelectronics: Research Seminars

    Type Series
    Contributor(s)
    Date 28 Nov. 2007
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    Many research seminars are available on the nanoHUB. Listed below are a few that discuss new device possiblities.

  • 10.0 Ranking   NCN Nanoelectronics: Courses

    NCN Nanoelectronics: Courses

    Type Series
    Contributor(s)
    Date 28 Nov. 2007
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  • 9.7 Ranking   Nanotechnology 101 Lecture Series

    Nanotechnology 101 Lecture Series

    Type Series
    Contributor(s)
    Date 13 Sep. 2004
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    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.

  • 9.5 Ranking   Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series

    Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series

    Type Series
    Contributor(s)
    Date 22 Feb. 2005
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    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.

  • 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
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    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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