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Conversion of Animated GIFs to Flash SWFs for Use in Breeze Presentations
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz
This guided tutorial explains the process of how to convertan animated GIF into a Flash SWF which can then be inserted into a Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. The tutorial uses Adobe Macromedia Flash MX to perform the conversion process.
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Insertion of Flash SWFs into Breeze Presentations
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Rick DeSutter, Joseph M. Cychosz
This guided tutorial explains the process for inserting movie files as Flash SWFs into your Adobe Macromedia Breeze presentation. Guided tutorials are available which explain the process of how to create Flash SWFs from movie files such as (.mov, .avi, .wmv, etc.) or fromanimated GIFs.
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Microphone Selection and Comparison: Hear the Difference
Online Presentations | 08 Aug 2006 | Contributor(s):: Joseph M. Cychosz
Selecting a microphone can be a difficult task.For presentations, the quality is very much dependent upon the audio clarity and quality of the naration. For meetings, quality can be somewhat less. This presentation gives an audio comparison of the various options listed with our Microphone...
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Nanotubes and Nanowires: One-dimensional Materials
Online Presentations | 17 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s):: Timothy D. Sands
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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How to Breezify Your Presentation and Publish it on the nanoHUB
Online Presentations | 09 Jul 2006 | Contributor(s):: Joseph M. Cychosz
This presentation gives a detailed overview of the process of creating an online presentation for the nanoHUB. It describes how to use Adobe-Macromedia's Breeze presentation tool in conjuction with Microsoft Powerpoint to create a narriated presentation, and how to upload it to the nanoHUB.
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Exploring Electron Transfer with Density Functional Theory
Online Presentations | 11 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Troy Van Voorhis
This talk will highlight several illustrative applications of constrained density functionaltheory (DFT) to electron transfer dynamics in electronic materials. The kinetics of thesereactions are commonly expressed in terms of well known Marcus parameters (drivingforce, reorganization energy and...
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What is "Nanofluidics"? or The Nano-izing of Fluid Mechanics
Online Presentations | 28 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Steve Wereley
Micro- and nanoscaled fluid mechanics are rapidly emerging as important supporting fields in biomedical technology, nanotechnology, etc., as well as being important fields of study in their own right. Despite the common use of these terms in the literature, the fluid behavior at these small...
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Giving Talks and Posters That People Would Actually Like to See
Online Presentations | 28 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Jerry M. Woodall
Other than getting a college degree, being able to communicate technical results to non experts (and even experts) in a simple and easily understandable way iscritical to a future successful career path.To this end I will discuss the elements of how to prepare both good power pointand poster...
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Vector Free Energy Calculation with Adaptive Biasing Force
Online Presentations | 18 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Eric F Darve
This presentation discusses recent numerical methods to calculate thefree energy as a function of a reaction coordinate for bio-molecules.Free energy is often called potential of mean force and represents theeffective potential experienced by a generalized coordinate for abio-molecular system....
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NanoMOS 3.0: First-Time User Guide
Online Presentations | 06 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Kurtis Cantley, Mark Lundstrom
This tutorial is an introduction to the nanoMOS simulation tool for new users. Descriptions of input and output parameters are included, along with new features associated with the Rappture interface. There are also descriptions of nine examples that are loadable in the new version to help the...
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Random Lasers
Online Presentations | 19 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Mikhail A. Noginov
Random lasers are the simplest sources of stimulated emission without cavity, with the feedback provided by scattering in a gain medium. First proposed in the late 60’s, random lasers have grown to a large research field. This lecture reviews the state of the art of random lasers, provides...
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MATLAB DOs and DON'Ts
Online Presentations | 14 May 2006 | 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; the presentation teaches avoidance of...
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Switching Energy in CMOS Logic: How far are we from physical limit?
Online Presentations | 24 Apr 2006 | 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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The Long and Short of Pick-up Stick Transistors: A Promising Technology for Nano- and Macro-Electronics
Online Presentations | 11 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
In recent years, there has been enormous interest in the emerging field of large-area macro-electronics, and fabricating thin-film transistors on flexible substrates. This talk will cover recent work in developing a comprehensive theoretical framework to describe the performance of these "pick-up...
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Introduction to Condor
Online Presentations | 06 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alain Roy
In this talk, Alain Roy introduces Condor and the Condor Project at a very high-level. Condor's matchmaking technologies are discussed, as well as Condor's grid capablities.
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Tutorial on Using Micelle-MD
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Patrick Chiu, Kunal Shah, Susan Sinnott
This is a tutorial using Micelle-MD. This includes the main capabilities, computation procedure, with format of files generated, and the simulation setup, which includes the material models implemented.
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A Primer on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2006 | 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...
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Thermal Microsystems for On-Chip Thermal Engineering
Online Presentations | 04 Apr 2006 | Contributor(s):: Suresh V. Garimella
Electro-thermal co-design at the micro- and nano-scales is critical for achieving desired performance and reliability in microelectronic circuits. Emerging thermal microsystems technologies for this application area are discussed, with specific examples including a novel micromechanical...
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Using Condor
Online Presentations | 21 Mar 2006 | Contributor(s):: Alain Roy
In this talk, Alain Roy describes details of how to use Condor to run jobs on your local batch system. It is presumed that you have already installed Condor and wish to learn the basics of submitting jobs.
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Electron and Ion Microscopies as Characterization Tools for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Online Presentations | 27 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: Eric Stach
This tutorial presents a broad overview of the basic physical principles of techniques used in scanning electron microscopy (SEM), as well as their application to understanding processing/structure/property relationships in nanostructured materials. Special emphasis is placed on the capabilities...