The BNC leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health. Below are some publications from the BCN.
Publications from 2013
Universal scaling and intrinsic classification of electro-mechanical actuators, Sambit Palit, Ankit Jain, and Muhammad A. Alam
Publications from 2012
Self-assembly of single dielectric nanoparticle layers and integration in polymer-based solar cells, Jonathan E. Allen, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. khan, Kevin G. Yager, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, and Charles T. Black
A first-principles molecular dynamics approach for predicting optical phonon lifetimes and far-infrared reflectance of polar materials, Hua Bao, Bo Qiu, Yu Zhang, and Xiulin Ruan
Multiband Tight-Binding Model for Strained and Bilayer Graphene from DFT Calculations, T. B. Boykin, M. Luisier, N. Kharche, X. Jaing, S. K. Nayak, A. Martini, and G. Klimeck
Estimating the In-Plane Young's Modulus of Polycrystalline Films in MEMS, Patrick R. Cantwell, Hojin Kim, Matthew M. Schneider, Hao-Han Hsu, Dimitrios Peroulis, Eric A. Stach, and Alejandro Strachan
A Two-Dimensional Domain Decomposition Technique for the Simulation of Quantum-Scale Devices, Stephen Cauley, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Cheng-Kok Koh
Scalable patterning on shape memory alloy by laser shock assisted direct imprinting, Ye Chang and Gary J. Cheng
Syntheses of Boron Nitride Nanotubes from Borazine and Decaborane Molecular Precursors by Catalytic Chemical Vapor Deposition with a Floating Nickel Catalyst, Shahana Chatterjee, Myung Jong Kim, Dmitri Zakharov, Seung Min Kim, Eric A. Stach, Benji Maruyama, and Larry G. Sneddon
Facile synthesis of ultra-small Bi2Te3 nanoparticles, nanorods and nanoplates and their morphology-dependent Raman spectroscopy, Liangliang Chen, Qing Zhao, and Xiulin Ruan
Full Band Atomistic Modeling of Homo-junction InGaAs Band-to-Band Tunneling Diodes Including Band Gap Narrowing, Woo-Suhl Cho, Mathieu Luisier, Dheeraj Mohata, Suman Datta, David Pawlik, Sean L. Rommel, and Gerhard Klimeck
Characterizations of gas purge valves for liquid alignment and gas removal in a microfluidic chip, Han-Shengh Chuang, Raviraj Thakur, and Steven T. Wereley
On the scaling behavior of organic ferroelectric copolymer PVDF-TrFE for memory application, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
Contrasting energy scales of reentrant integer quantum Hall states, Nianpei Deng, J. D. Watson, L. P. Rokhinson, M. J. Manfra, and G. A. Csathy
End-to-End Modeling for Variability and Reliability Analysis of Thin Film PV, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
A Shade Tolerant Panel Design for Thin Film Photovoltaics, Sourabh Dongaonkar and Muhammad A. Alam
Reverse Stress Metastability of Shunt Current in CIGS Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Erik Sheets, Rakesh Agrawal, and Muhammad A. Alam
A Single-Atom Transistor, Martin Fuechsle, Jill A. Miwa, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, Oliver Warschkow, Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, and Michelle Y. Simmons
Spectroscopy of a Deterministic Single-Donor Device in Silicon, M. Fuechsle, J. A. Miwa, S. Mahapatra, H. Ryu, S. Lee, O. Warschkow, L. C. L. Hollenberg, G. Klimeck, and M. Y. Simmons
Indirectly Pumped 3.7 THz InGaAs/InAlAs Quantum-Cascade Lasers Grown by Metal-Organic Vapor-Phase Epitaxy, Kazuue Fujita, Masamichi Yamanishi, Shinichi Furuta, Kazunori Tanaka, Tadataka Edamura, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Flexure-FET biosensor to break the fundamental sensitivity limits of nanobiosensors using nonlinear electromechanical coupling, Ankit Jain, Pradeep Nair, and Muhammad A. Alam
Strategies for dynamic soft-landing in capacitive microelectromechanical switches, Ankit Jain, Pradeep Nair, and Muhammad Ashraful Alam
A Physics-Based Predictive Modeling Framework for Dielectric Charging and Creep in RF MEMS Capacitive Switches and Varactors, Ankit Jain, Sambit palit, and Muhammad Ashraful Alam
Size-dependent hardness of nanoscale metallic contacts from molecular dynamics simulations, Hojin Kim and Alejandro Strachan
Role of Self-Assembled Monolayer Passivation in Electrical Transport Properties and Flicker Noise of Nanowire Transistors, Seongmin Kim, Patrick D. Carpenter, Rand K. Jean, Haitian Chen, Chongwu Zhou, Sanghyun Ju, and David B. Janes
Nanoscale contacts between semiconducting nanowires and metallic graphenes, Seongmin Kim, David B. Janes, Sung-Yool Choi, and Sanghyun Ju
Silver layer instability in a SnO2/Ag/SnO2 trilayer on silicon, Suk Jun Kim, Eric A. Stach, and Carol A. Handwerker
Does the Low Hole Transport Mass in <110> and <111> Si Nanowires Lead to Mobility Enhancements at High Field and Stress: A Self-Consistent Tight-Binding Study, R. L. Kotlyar, T. D. Linton, R. Rios, M. D. Giles, S. M. Cea, K. J. Kuhn, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Atomistic simulations on multilayer graphene reinforced epoxy composites, Chunyu Li, Andrea R. Browning, Stephen Christensen, and Alejandro Strachan
Threshold of hierarchical percolating systems, Jiantong Li, Biswajit Ray, Muhammad Alam, and Mikael Ostling
Frequency response of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 all-oxide field-effect transistors, Qingmin Liu, Lin Dong, Yiqun Liu, Roy Gordon, Peide D. Ye, Patrick Fay, and Alan Seabaugh
A Batch-Fabricated Single-Layer Elastomeric Actuator With Corrugated Surface, Teimour Maleki, Girish Chitnis, Albert Kim, and Babak Ziaie
Wavelength-Dependent Absorption in Structurally Tailored Randomly Branched Vertical Arrays of InSb Nanowires, Asaduzzaman Mohammad, Suprem R. Das, Mohammad R. Khan, Muhammad A. Alam, and David B. Janes
Theory of charging and charge transport in “intermediate” thickness dielectrics and its implications for characterization and reliability, Sambit Palit and Muhammad A. Alam
A non-obtrusive technique to characterize dielectric charging in RF-MEMS capacitive switches, Sambit Palit, Ankit Jain, and Muhammad A. Alam
Performance Comparisons of III-V and strained-Si in Planar FETs and Non-planar FinFETs at Ultra-short Gate Length (12nm), Seung Hyun Park, Yang Liu, Neerav Kharche, Mehdi Salmani Jelodar, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Mathieu Luisier
Microwave-Assisted Surface Synthesis of a Boron-Carbon-Nitrogen Foam and its Desorption Enthalpy, Rajib Paul, Andrey A. Voevodin, Dimitry Zemlyanov, Ajit K. Roy, and Timothy S. Fisher
Random Vs Regularized OPV: Limits of Performance Gain of Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Morphology Engineering, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Achieving Fill Factor Above 80% in Organic Solar Cells by Charged Interface, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Nanostructured Electrodes for Organic Solar Cells: Analysis and Design Fundamentals, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. Khan, Charles Black, and Muhammad A. Alam
Can morphology tailoring improve the open circuit voltage of organic solar cells?, Biswajit Ray, M. S. Lundstrom, and Muhammad A. Alam
Annealing dependent performance of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells: A theoretical perspective, Biswajit Ray, Pradeep Nair, and Muhammad A. Alam
Electrical control of ferromagnetic state, Leonid P. Rokhinson, Mason Overby, Alexandr Chernyshov, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Xinyu Liu, and Jacek K. Furdyna
Feasibility, Accuracy, and Performance of Contact Block Reduction Method for Multi-band Simulations of Ballistic Quantum Transport, Hoon Ryu, Hong-Hyun Park, Mincheol Shin, Dragica Vasileska, and Gerhard Klimeck
Observation of 1D Behavior in Si Nanowires: Toward High-Performance TFETs, Ramon B. Salazar, Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck, Navab Singh, and Joerg Appenzeller
Thermal and Electrical Conductivities of Nanocrystalline Nickel Microbridges, Robert A. Sayer, Juan Zeng, Hao-Han Hsu, Dimitrios Peroulis, and Timothy S. Fisher
Archimedes, the Free Mone Carlo Simulator: A GNU Package for Submicron Semiconductor Devices on nanoHUB, Jean Michel Sellier, James E. Fonseca, and Gerhard Klimeck
Increased normal incidence photocurrent in quantum dot infrared photodetectors, Jiayi Shao, Thomas E. Vandervelde, Ajit Barve, Andreas Stintz, and Sanjay Krishna
DC-dynamic biasing for > 50x switching time improvement in severely underdamped fringing-field electrostatic MEMS actuators, J. Small, A. Fruehling, A. Garg, X. Liu, and D. Peroulis
Material Selection for Minimizing Direct Tunneling in Nanowire Transistors, Somaia Sarwart Sylvia, Hong-Hyun Park, M. Abul Khayer, Khairul Alam, Gerhard Klimeck, and Roger Lake
Polarization Response in InAs Quantum Dots: Theoretical Correlation Between Composition and Electronic Properties, Muhammad Usman, Vittorianna Tasco, Maria Teresa Todaro, Milena De Giorgi, Eoin P. O'Reilly, Gerhard Klimeck, and Adriana Passaseo
Folic Acid Protected Silver Nanocarriers for Targeted Drug Delivery, Y L. Wang, Brittany Book Newell, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale, Bent Weber, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, A. Fuhrer, T. Reusch, D. Thompson, W.C.T. Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg, and Michelle Y. Simmons
Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale, B. Weber, S. Mahapatra, H. Ryu, S. Lee, A. Fuhrer, T. C.G. Reusch, D. L. Thompson, W. C.T. Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, L. C. L. Hollenberg, and M. Y. Simmons
Molecular dynamics studies of ultrafast laser-induced phase and structural change in crystalline silicon, Chengjuan Yang, Yaguo Wang, and Xianfan Xu
Publications from 2011
The Essence and Efficiency Limits of Bulk-Heterostructure Organic Solar Cells, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Biswajit Ray, Mohammad R. khan, and Sourabh Dongaonkar
Substrate Gating of Contact Resistance in Graphene Transistors, Dionisis Berdebes, Tony Low, Yang Sui, Joerg Appenzeller, and Mark Lundstrom
Accurate Six-Band Nearest-Neighbor Tight-Binding Model for the π-Bands of Bulk Graphene and Graphene Nanoribbons, Timothy B. Boykin, Mathieu Luisier, Gerhard Klimeck, Xueping Jiang, Neerav Kharche, Yu Zhou, and Saroj K. Nayak
Distributed NEGF Algorithms for the Simulation of Nanoelectronic Devices with Scattering, Stephen Cauley, Mathieu Luisier, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Cheng-Kok Koh
Effects of Carbon Nanotube-Tethered Nanosphere Density on Amperometric Biosensing: Simulation and Experiment, Jonathan Caussen, James Hengenius, Monique Wickner, Timothy Fisher, David Umulis, and Marshall Porterfield
Laser-treated hydrophobic paper: an inexpensive microfluidic platform, Girish Chitnis, Zhenwen Ding, Chun-Li Chang, Cagri A. Savran, and Babak Ziaie
Full Band Modeling of Homo-junction InGaAs Band-to-Band Tunneling Diodes Including Band Gap Narrowing, Woo-Suhl Cho, Mathieu Luisier, Dheeraj Mohata, Suman Datta, David Pawlik, and Sean L. Rommel
Electrochemical glutamate biosensing with nanocube and nanosphere augmented single-walled carbon nanotube networks: a comparative study, Jonathan C. Claussen, Mayra S. Artiles, Eric S. McLamore, Subhashree Mohanty, Jin Shi, Jenna Rickus, Timothy S. Fisher, and D. Marshall Porterfield
Quantitative force and dissipation measurements in liquids using piezo-excited atomic force microscopy: a unifying theory, Kiracofe Daniel and Arvind Raman
Group leaders optimization algorithm, Anmer Daskin and Sabre Kais
An All Graphene Low Noise Amplifier, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
FETRAM- an Organic Ferroelectric Material Based Novel Random Access Memory Cell, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
On the Importance of Band Gap Formation in Graphene for Analog Device Application, Saptarshi Das and Joerg Appenzeller
A Physical Model for Non-ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Karthik Y, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Identification, Characterization, and Implications of Shadow Degradation in Thin Film Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Karthik Y, Dapeng Wang, Michel Frei, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Physics and Statistics of Non-Ohmic Shunt Conduction and Metastability in Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, karthik Yogendra, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Multimodal grain size distribution and high hardness in fine grained tungsten fabricated by spark plasma sintering, Osman El-Atwani, D.V. Quach, Mert Efe, Patrick Cantwell, Bryan Heim, Bradley Schultz, Eric Stach, Joanna Groza, and Jean P. Allain
Histone modification analysis by chromatin immunoprecipitation from a low number of cells on a microfluidic platform, Tao Geng, Ning Bao, Michael D. Litt, Trevor G. Glaros, Liwu Li, and Chang Lu
Breast on-a-chip: mimicry of the channeling system of the breast for development of theranostics, Meggie M.G. Grafton, Lei Wang, Pierre-Alexandre Vidi, James F. Leary, and Sophie A. Lelievre
Effects of (NH(4))(2)S passivation on the off-state performance of 3-dimensional InGaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, J J Gu, A T. Neal, and P D. Ye
Role of Surface Orientation on Atomic Layer Deposited Al2O3/GaAs Interface Structure and Fermi Level Pinning: A Density Functional Theory Study, Ganesh Hegde, Gerhard Klimeck, and Alejandro Strachan
Controlling the wave focal structure of metallic nanoslit lenses with liquid crystals, S Ishii, A V. Kildishev, V M. Shalaev, and V P. Drachev
Plasmonics Goes Quantum, Zubin Jacob and Vladimir Shalaev
Scanning gate microscopy on graphene: charge inhomogeneity and extrinsic doping, Romaneh Jalilian, Luis A. Jauregui, Gabriel Lopez, Jifa Tian, Caleb Roecker, Mehdi Yazdanpanah, Robert Cohn, I. Jovanovic, and Yong P. Chen
Computational Study of the Electronic Performance of Cross-Plane Superlattice Peltier Devices, Changwook Jeong, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Prospects for Nanowire-Doped Polycrystalline Graphene Films for Ultratransparent, Highly Conductive Electrodes, Changwook Jeong, Pradeep Nair, Mohammad Khan, Mark Lundstrom, and Muhammad Alam
Adsorption of Mixed Peptide/Thiol Adlayers on InAs: Assessment of Different Functionalization Strategies Using X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Scott Jewett, D. Zemlyanov, and Albena Ivanisevic
Effects of Interface Disorder on Valley Splitting in SiGe/Si/SiGe Quantum Wells, Zhengping Jiang, Neerav Kharche, Timothy Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Scalable nano-patterning of graphenes using laser shock, Li J., R. J. Zhang, H. Q. Jiang, and G. J. Cheng
Multiscale Metrology and Optimization of Ultra-Scaled InAs Quantum Well FETs, Neerav Kharche, Gerhard Klimeck, Dae-Hyun Kim, Jesús A. del Alamo, and Mathieu Luisier
Transformation optics and metamaterials, A. V. Kildishev and V. M. Shalaev
Selective Contact Anneal Effects on Indium Oxide Nanowire Transistors using Femtosecond Laser, Seongmin Kim, Sunkook Kim, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Chunghun Lee, Min Xu, Peide D. Ye, Minghao Qi, Xianfan Xu, Chongwu Zhou, Sanghyun Ju, and David B. Janes
Effects of Interface Roughness Scattering on Radio Frequency Performance of Silicon Nanowire Transistors, SungGeun Kim, Mathieu Luisier, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Full Three-Dimensional Quantum Transport Simulation of Atomistic Interface Roughness in Silicon Nanowire FETs, SungGeun Kim, Mathieu Luisier, Abhijeet Paul, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Full Three-Dimensional Quantum Transport Simulation of Atomistic Interface Roughness in Silicon Nanowire FETs, SungGeun Kim, Mathieu Luisier, Abhijeet Paul, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Mass and stiffness calibration of nanowires using thermally driven vibration, Daniel Kiracofe, M. M. Yazdanpanah, and Arvind Raman
Social Networks of Researchers and Educators on nanoHUB.org, Gerhard Klimeck, George B. Adams III, Krishna P.C. Madhavan, Nathan Denny, Michael G. Zentner, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Lynn K. Zentner, and Diane L. Beaudoin
Network for Computational Nanotechnology - A Strategic Plan for Global Knowledge Transfer in Research and Education, Gerhard Klimeck, Lynn Zentner, Krishna Madhavan, Victoria Farnsworth, and Mark Lundstrom
Effect of Strain on Stripe Phases in the Quantum Hall Regime, Sunanda P. Koduvayur, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, Sergei Khlebnikov, Gabor Csathy, Michael J. Manfra, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth W. West, and Leonid P. Rokhinson
Hybrid opto-electric manipulation in microfluidics-opportunities and challenges, Aloke Kumar, Stuart J. Williams, Han-Sheng Chuang, Nicolas G. Green, and Steven T. Wereley
Characterization of the heat transfer accompanying electrowetting or gravity-induced droplet motion, Niru Kumari and Suresh V. Garimella
Nonlinear parametric amplification and attenuation in a base-excited cantilever beam, Vijay Kumar, Jacob K. Miller, and Jeffrey F. Rhoads
Lifetime Enhanced Transport in Silicon Due to Spin and Valley Blockade, Gabriel Lansbergen, Rajib Rahman, J. Verdujin, Giuseppe Tettamanzi, Nadine Collaert, Serge Biesemans, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd Hollenberg, and Sven Rogge
Electronic structure of realistically extended atomistically resolved disordered Si:P delta-doped layers, Sunhee Lee, Hoon Ryu, Lloyd Hollenberg, Michelle Simmons, and Gerhard Klimeck
Electronic Structure of Realistically Extended Atomistically Resolved Disordered Si:P δ-doped Layers, Sunhee Lee, Hoon Ryu, Llyd C. L. Hollenberg, Michelle Y. Simmons, and Gerhard Klimeck
Built-in Electric Field Minimization in (In, Ga)N Nanoheterostructure, Zhiwen Liang, Isaac Wildeson, Robert Colby, David Ewoldt, Tong Zhang, Timothy Sands, Eric Stach, Bedrich Benes, and R E. Garcia