EE Seminars

nano

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Past Seminars

Dr. Trond Ytterdal -- April 27, 2007, 3:00PM
Microsystem Technologies for Medical Imaging Applications

The first part of the talk presents an overview of ongoing research in microsystem...

Dr. Konrad Walus -- April 23, 2007, 3:00PM
Circuit Design with Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA)

In recent years, design tools have emerged which has enabled research into circuit level...

Dr. David Cahill -- April 03, 2007, 12:30PM
Thermal conductivity of nanoscale gsuperlattices, multilayers, and disordered layered crystals:
How low can we go?

Abstract: In dielectrics and semiconductors, heat is carried by lattice vibrations, i.e...

Dr. John Bowers -- October 06, 2006, 3:30PM
Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuits

Silicon photonics is an exciting research field with the promise of revolutionizing
communi

Dr. Chris A. Mack -- March 24, 2006, 1:30PM
The New, New Limits of Optical Lithography

The end of optical lithography has been so often predicted (incorrectly) that such predictions...

Mr. Dmitry Sizov -- March 22, 2006, 2:00PM
The Use of InGaN Quantum Dots in the Active Area of Light Emitting Devices

Group III nitrides (AlN, GaN, InN and their solid solutions) cover a region from wide bandgap...

Jacob B. Jacob B. -- March 20, 2006, 4:00PM
Adventures in Phonon Engineering

Scattering on lattice vibrations (phonons) is the most fundamental impairment to the...

Dr. Igor Beloborodov -- March 07, 2006, 3:00PM
Transport Properties of Granular Metals

Artificial materials composed of metallic nanoparticles or quantum dots have emerged as the...

Dr. Archie L. Holmes Jr. -- February 13, 2006, 3:00PM
Development of Novel Compound Semiconductors for Advanced Avalanche Photodiodes

Over the past decade, photodiodes have been developed for long-haul optical communication...

Prof. Cary Y. Yang -- December 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Carbon Nanotubes & Nanofibers as On-chip Interconnects

As integrated circuit (IC) technology continues the trend towards sub-50 nanometer feature...

Prof. Robert M. Wallace -- November 29, 2005, 10:00AM
Electronic Materials Integration

The semiconductor industry has embraced research on a variety of materials to enable the...

H. John Caulfield -- November 04, 2005, 4:00PM
Generalized Optical Logic Elements - GOLEs

A Generalized Optical Logic Element or GOLE is a device that performs any of the 16 Boolean...

Lars Samuelson -- October 28, 2005, 10:30AM
Semiconductor Nanowires

In this talk I will discuss growth of semiconductor nanowires based on epitaxial nucleation of...

Prof. Andreas Cangellaris -- October 13, 2005, 3:30PM
Comprehensive Models for the Investigation of On-Chip Switching Noise Generation & Coupling

A modeling methodology is presented for the investigation of on-chip noise generation and...

Professor Richard A. Kiehl -- October 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Report from the Nano-Bio (Bio-Nano) Frontier:
An Electrical Engineer's Perspective

The interface between different fields is believed to be fertile ground for breakthrough...

Dr. Ulrich Welp -- September 20, 2005, 3:30PM
Plasmonics:
Sub-wavelength Focusing & Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy

The drive towards highly integrated optical devices and circuits for use in high-speed...

Dr. Meyya Meyyappan -- August 09, 2005, 11:00AM
Novel One Dimensional Nanostructures

The combination of remarkable mechanical properties and unique electronic properties of carbon...

Kamil L. Ekinci -- June 10, 2005, 2:00PM
Recent Experiments in Nanomechanics

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are drawing interest from both technical and scientific...

Joerg Appenzeller -- April 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Carbon Nanotubes for Field-Effect Transistor Applications

One of the candidates discussed as a future channel material in a field-effect transistor (FET)

Dr. Philoppe Fauchet -- October 02, 2003, 10:00AM
The Role of Nanoscale Silicon in Optical Interconnects

The semiconductor industry association roadmap has identified interconnects as a major barrier...