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 2011
Surface immobilizable chelator for label-free electrical detection of pyrophosphate, David J. Liu, Grace M. Credo, Xing Su, Kai Wu, Hsiao C. Lim, Oguz H. Elibol, Rashid Bashir, and Madoo Varma
An Ultrasonically Powered Implantable Micro-Oxygen Generator (IMOG), Teimour Maleki, Ning Cao, Seung Hyun Song, Chinghai Kao, Song-Chu Ko, and Babak Ziaie
Atomistic Approach to Alloy Scattering in Si(1-x)Ge(x), Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Abhijeet Paul, and Gerhard Klimeck
Ballistic Hole Injection Velocity Analysis in Ge UTB pMOSFETs: Dependence on Body Thickness, Orientation and Strain, Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Abhijeet Paul, and Gerhard Klimeck
Laser direct write of silicon nanowires, James Mitchell, Se Jun Park, C Adam Watson, Pornsak Srisungsitthisunti, Chookiat Tansarawiput, Minghao Qi, Eric Stach, Chen Yang, and Xianfan Xu
Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites, Robert J. Moon, Ashlie Martini, John Nairn, John Simonsen, and Jeffrey Youngblood
Poly-ols Based Sol-Gel Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Thin Films, Gururaj V. Naik and Navakanta Bhat
Sources and implications of resonant mode splitting in silicon nanowire devices, Molly Nelis, LIn Yu, Weixia Zhang, Yanjie Zhao, Chen Yang, Arvind Raman, Saeed Mohammadi, and Jeffrey Rhoads
Subband Engineering for p-type Silicon Ultra-Thin Layers for Increased Carrier Velocities: An Atomistic Analysis, Neophytos Neophytou and Gerhard Klimeck
Self-assembly and alignment of semiconductor nanoparticles on cellulose nanocrystals, Sonal Padalkar, Jeff Capadona, Stuart Rowan, Christoph Weder, Robert Moon, and L Stanciu
Room Temperature Ferromagnetism and Optical Limiting in V(2)O(5) Nanoflowers Synthesized by a Novel Method, Manas R. Parida, C. Vijayan, Chandra Sekhar Rout, C. S. Suchand Sandeep, Reji Phiip, and P. C. Deshmukh
Excellent dispersion of MWCNTs in PEO polymer achieved through a simple and potentially cost-effective evaporation casting, Myounggu Park, Hyonny Kim, Jeffrey Youngblood, Sang Woo Han, Eric Verplogen, and A John Hart
Contact Modeling and Analysis of InAs HEMT Transistors, Seung Hyun Park, Hong-Hyun Park, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Contact Modeling and Analysis of InAs HEMT Transistors, Seung Hyun Park, Hong Hyun Park, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Atomistic Study of Electronic Structure of PbSe Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul and Gerhard Klimeck
Atomistic Study of Electronic Structure of PbSe Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul and Gerhard Klimeck
Strain Effects on the Phonon Thermal Properties of Ultra-Scaled Si Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul and Gerhard Klimeck
Tuning Lattice Thermal Conductance by Porosity Control in Ultrascaled Si and Ge Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul and Gerhard Klimeck
Influence of Cross-Section Geometry and Wire Orientation on the Phonon Shifts in Ultra-Scaled Si Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
Shape and Orientation Effects on the Ballistic Phonon Thermal Properties of Ultra-Scaled Si Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
Performance Enhancement of GaAs UTB pFETs by Strain, Orientation and Body Thickness Engineering, Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark Rodwell
Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency by Uniaxial Tensile Stress in n-type GaAs Nanowires, Abhijeet Paul, Kai Miao, Ganesh Hegde, Saumitra Hehrotra, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
Tuning Lattice Thermal Conductance in Ultra-Scaled Hollow SiNW: Role of Porosity Size, Density and Distribution, Abhijeet Paul, Kai Miao, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
An Efficient Algorithm to Calculate Intrinsic Thermoelectric Parameters Based on Landauer Approach, Abhijeet Paul, Shuaib Salamat, Changwook Jeong, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Interface Trap Density Metrology from Sub-Threshold Transport in Highly Scaled Undoped Si n-FinFETs, Abhijeet Paul, Giuseppe C. Tettamanz, Sunhee Lee, Saumitra R. Mehrotra, Nadine Collaert, Serge Biesemans, Sven Rogge, and Gerhard Klimeck
The Composite Materials Manufacturaing HUB - Crowd Sourcing as the Norm, R. Byron Pipes, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark R. Pipes
Electric Field Reduced Charging Energies and Two-Electron Bound Excited States of Single Donors in Silicon, Rajib Rahman, Gabiel Lansbergen, J. Verdujin, Giuseppe Tettamanzi, Seung Park, Nadine Collaert, Serge Biesemans, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd Hollenberg, and Sven Rogge
Coherent Electron Transport by Adiabatic Passage in an Imperfect Donor Chain, Rajib Rahman, Richard P. Muller, James E. Levy, Malcolm S. Carroll, Gerhard Klimeck, Andrew D. Greentree, and Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg
Engineered Valley-Orbit Splittings in Quantum-Confined Nanostructures in Silicon, Rajib Rahman, J. Verdujin, Neerav Kharche, Gabriel Lansbergen, Purdue University Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd Hollenberg, and Sven Rogge
A microscale model for thin-film evaporation in capillary wick structures, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, and Suresh V. Garimella
A numerical model for transport in flat heat pipes considering wick microstructure effects, Ram Ranjan, Jayathi Y. Murthy, Suresh V. Garimella, and Unnikrishnan Vadakkan
A Compact Physical Model for Morphology Induced Intrinsic Degradation of Polymer based Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cell, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
Optimum Morphology and Performance Gains of Organic Solar Cells, Biswajit Ray and Muhammad A. Alam
A New Method to Achieve RF Linearity in SOI Nanowire MOSFETs, Ali Razaavieh, Navab Singh, Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, David Janes, and Joerg Appenzeller
Room-temperature ferromagnetism in graphitic petal arrays, Chandra Sekhar Rout, Anurag Kumar, Nitesh Kumar, A. Sundaresan, and Timothy S. Fisher
Model Development for Lattice Properties of Gallium Arsenide Using Parallel Genetic Algorithm, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Sebastian Steiger, Abhijeet Paul, and Gerhard Klimeck
Single Layer MoS2 Band Structure and Transport, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Yaohua Tan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Multiscale Modeling of a Quantum Dot Heterostructure, Parijat Sengupta, Sunhee Lee, Sebastian Steiger, Hoon Ryu, and Gerhard Klimeck
Multiscale Modeling of a Quantum Dot Heterostructure, Parijat Sengupta, Sunhee Lee, Sebastian Steiger, Hoon Ryu, and Gerhard Klimeck
Characterization of nanodiamonds for metamaterial applications, Mikhail Shalaginov, Gururaj Naik, Satoshi Ishii, Mikhail Slipchenko, Alexandra Boltasseva, Ji-Xin Cheng, A N. Smolyaninov, E Kochman, and Vladimir Shalaev
Effect of Phonon Dispersion on Thermal Conduction Across Si/Ge Interfaces, Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Murthy, and Tim Fisher
Spectral phonon conduction and dominant scattering pathways in graphene, Dhruv Singh, Jayathi Murthy, and Timothy Fisher
Broken-Gap Tunnel MOSFET: A Constant-Slope Sub-60-mV/decade Transistor, Joshua Thomas Smith, Saptarshi Das, and Joerg Appenzeller
Silicon Nanowire Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor Arrays: Improving Subthreshold Performance Using Excimer Laser Annealing, Joshua Thomas Smith, Christian Sandow, Saptarshi Das, Renato A. Minamisawa, Siegfried Mantl, and Joerg Appenzeller
All-Spin Logic Device With Inbuilt Nonreciprocity, Srikant Srinivasan, Angik Sarkar, Behtash Behin-Aein, and Supriyo Datta
The Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool NEMO 5: Capabilities, Validation, and Application to Sb-Heterostructures, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong Hyun Park, Tillmann Kubis, Ganesh Hegde, Benjamin Haley, Mark Rodwell, and Gerhard Klimeck
NEMO5: A Parallel Multiscale Nanoelectronics Modeling Tool, Sebastian Steiger, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong-Hyun Park, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Enhanced Valence Force Field Model for the Lattice Properties of Gallium Arsenide, Sebastian Steiger, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, Denis Areshkin, Abhijeet Paul, Tillmann Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Hong-Hyun Park, and Gerhard Klimeck
Experimental and Theoretical Study of Polarization-Dependent Optical Transitions in InAs Quantum Dots at Telecommunication-Wavelengths (1300-1500 nm), Muhammad Usman, Susannah Heck, Edmund Clarke, Peter Spencer, Hoon Ryu, Ray Murray, and Gerhard Klimeck
Experimental and Atomistic Theoretical Study of Degree of Polarization from Multilayer InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Stacks, Muhammad Usman, Tomoya Inoue, Yukihiro Harda, Gerhard Klimeck, and Takashi Kita
Quantitative Excited State Spectroscopy of a Single InGaAs Quantum Dot Molecule through Multi-million Atom Electronic Structure Calculations, Muhammad Usman, Yui Hong Matthias Tan, Hoon Ryu, Shaikh S. Ahmed, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Quantitative excited state spectroscopy of a single InGaAs quantum dot molecule through multi-million-atom electronic structure calculations, Muhammad Usman, Yui-Hong Matthias Tan, Hoon Ryu, Shaikh S. Ahmed, Hubert J. Krenner, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Uncertainty quantification in nanomechanical measurements using the atomic force microscope, Ryan Wagner, Robert Moon, Jon Pratt, Gordon Shaw, and Arvind Raman
Enhancing the catalytic performance of Pt/C catalysts using steam-etched carbon blacks as a catalyst support, Mei-xian Wang,; Fan Xu; Qi Liu; Hong-fang Sun; Rui-hua Cheng; Hao He; Eric A. Stach; and Jian Xie
A SERS DNAzyme biosensor for lead ion detection, Yuling Wang and Joseph Irudayaraj
Separation and detection of multiple pathogens in a food matrix by magnetic SERS nanoprobes, Yuling Wang, Sandeep Ravindranath, and Joseph Irudayaraj
Periodically Changing Morphology of the Growth Interface in Si, Ge, and GaP Nanowires, C-Y Wen, J. Tersoff, K. Hillerich, M.C. Reuter, J. H. Park, S. Kodambaka, Eric Stach, and F.M. Ross
Au nanospheres and nanorods for enzyme-free electrochemical biosensor applications, Yu-Ho Won, Keon Huh, and Lia A. Stanciu
Growth of Single Crystal Graphene Arrays by Locally Controlling Nucleation on Polycrystalline Cu Using Chemical Vapor Deposition, Wei Wu, Luis A. Jauregui, Zhihua Su, Zhihong Liu, Jiming Bao, Yong P. Chen, and Qingkai Yu
ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY A new window opens, Dmitry Zemlyanov
Automated Grid Probe System to Improve End-To-End Grid Reliability for a Science Gateway, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, and Gerhard Klimeck
Automated Grid-Probe System to Improve End-To-End Grid Reliability for a Science Gateway, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Krishna P.C. Madhavan, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, and Gerhard Klimeck
Practical Considerations in Cloud Utilization for the Science Gateway nanoHUB.org, Lynn K. Zentner, Steven M. Clark, Preston M. Smith, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Victoria Farnsworth, Krishna P.C. Madhavan, and Gerhard Klimeck
Transport Modulation in Ge/Si Core/Shell Nanowires through Controlled Synthesis of Doped Si Shells, Yanjie Zhao, Joshua T. Smith, Joerg Appenzeller, and Chen Yang
Nanoscale ridge aperture as near-field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording, Nan Zhou, Edward Kinzel, and Xianfan Xu
Publications from 2010
Leakage-Reduction Design Concepts for Low-Power Vertical Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors, Samarth Agarwal, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
Leakage-Reduction Design Concepts for Low-Power Vertical Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors, Samarth Agarwal, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mathieu Luisier
Adaptive Quadrature for Sharply Spiked Integrands, Samarth Agarwal, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, and Gerhard Klimeck
Simulation assisted design of a gallium phosphide n-p photovoltaic junction, Charles R. Allen, Jong-Hyeok Jeon, and Jerry M. Woodall
Influence of Alumina Type on the Evolution and Activity of Alumina-Supported Fe Catalysts in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Carpet Growth, Placidus B. Amama, Cary L. Pint, Seung Min Kim, Laura McJilton, Kurt G. Eyink, E A. Stach, Robert H. Hauge, and Benji Maruyama
Electrical actuation-induced droplet transport on smooth and superhydrophobic surfaces, Vaibhav Bahadur and Suresh Garimella
Ab initio calculations of thermal radiative properties: The semiconductor GaAs, Hua Bao and X Ruan
Optical properties of ordered vertical arrays of multi-walled carbon nanotubes from FDTD simulations, Hua Bao, X Ruan, and Timothy Fisher
Contiguous Petal-like Carbon Nanosheet Outgrowths from Graphite Fibers by Plasma CVD, Thiruvelu Bhuvana, Anurag Kumar, Aditya Sood, Roger H. Gerzeski, JJ Jianjun, Venkata Srinu Bhadram, Chandrabhas Narayana, and Timothy Fisher
Characterization of silver-gallium nanowires for force and mass sensing applications, Laura B. Biedermann, Ryan C. Tung, Arvind Raman, R. Reifenberger, Mehdi Yazdanpanah, and Robert W. Cohn
Computational study of an InGaN/GaN nanocolumn light-emitting diode, Christoph Boecklin, Ratko G. Veprek, Sebastian Steiger, and Bernd Witzigmann
Current Density and Continuity in Discretized Models, Timothy B. Boykin, Mathieu Luisier, and Gerhard Klimeck
Strain-Induced, Off-Diagonal, Same-Atom Parameters in Empirical Tight-Binding Theory Suitable for [110] Uniaxial Strain Applied to a Silicon Parametrization, Timothy B. Boykin, Mathieu Luisier, Mehdi Salmani-Jelodar, and Gerhard Klimeck
APPLIED PHYSICS The Case for Plasmonics, Mark L. Brongersma and V. M. Shalaev
The effects of cubic stiffness on fatigue characterization resonator performance, M Budnitzki, M C. Scates, R O. Ritchie, E A. Stach, C L. Muhlstein, and O N. Pierron
Large-scale graphitic thin films synthesized on Ni and transferred to insulators: Structural and electronic properties, Helin Cao, Qingkai Yu, Robert Colby, Deepak Pandey, C S. Park, Jie Lian, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Isaac Childres, V. P. Drachev, E A. Stach, Muhammad Hussain, Hao Li, Steven S. Pei, and Yong P. Chen
Electronic transport in chemical vapor deposited graphene synthesized on Cu: Quantum Hall effect and weak localization, Helin Cao, Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, J Tian, W Wu, Z Liu, Ramaneh Jalilian, D K. Benjamin, Z Jiang, J Bao, S S. Pei, and Yong P. Chen
Measurement of the temperature non-uniformity in a microchannel heat sink using microscale laser-induced fluorescence, Pramod Chamarthy, Suresh Garimella, and Steven Wereley
Fluorescence Lifetime Cross Correlation Spectroscopy Resolves EGFR and Antagonist Interaction in Live Cells, Jiji Chen and Joseph Irudayaraj
Drude Relaxation Rate in Grained Gold Nanoantennas, Kuo-Ping Chen, V. P. Drachev, Joshua Borneman, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
Ultra-thin ultra-smooth and low-loss silver films on a germanium wetting layer, Weiqiang Chen, Mark D. Thoreson, Satoshi Ishii, Alexander V. Kildishev, and V. M. Shalaev
NANOMATERIALS Graphene rolls off the press, Yong P. Chen and Qingkai Yu
FDTD modeling of realistic semicontinuous metal films, Uday K. Chettiar, P Nyga, Mark D. Thoreson, Alexander V. Kildishev, V. P. Drachev, and V. M. Shalaev
Microelectromechanical bandpass filters based on cyclic coupling architectures, Venkata Bharadwaj Chivukula and Jeff Rhoads
Intrinsic Reliability Improvement in Biaxially Strained SiGe p-MOSFETs, S. Deora, Abhijeet Paul, R. Bijesh, J. Huang, Gerhard Klimeck, G. Bersuker, P. D. Krisch, and R. Jammy
Experimental Investigation of Evaporation from Low-Contact-Angle Sessile Droplets, Hemanth K. Dhavaleswarapu, Christopher P. Migliaccio, Suresh Garimella, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Squeeze-Film Hydrogel Deposition and Dry Micropatterning, Zhenwen Ding, Amani Salim, and Babak Ziaie
Universality of non-Ohmic shunt leakage in thin-film solar cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Jonathan D. Servaites, Grayson M. Ford, Stephen Loser, James E. Moore, Ryan M. Gelfand, Hooman Mohseni, Hugh W. Hillhouse, Rakesh Agrawal, Mark A. Ratner, Tobin J. Marks, Mark Lundstrom, and Muhammad A. Alam
On the Nature of Shunt Leakage in Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Solar Cells, Sourabh Dongaonkar, Karthik Y, Dapeng Wang, Michel Frei, Souvik Mahapatra, and Muhammad A. Alam
Highly Extensible Bio-Nanocomposite Films with Direction-Dependent Properties, Akhilesh Gaharwar, Patrick Schexnailder, Vikas Kaul, Ozan Akkus, Dmitry Zakharov, Soenke Seifert, and Gudrun Schmidt
Dissociation of Water on the Surface of Organic Salts Studied by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Peter Guerrieri, Dmitry Zemlyanov, and Lynn S. Taylor
High performance atomic-layer-deposited LaLuO3/Ge-on-insulator p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor with thermally grown GeO2 as interfacial passivation layer, J J. Gu, Y Q. Liu, M Xu, G K. Celler, R G. Gordon, and P. D. Ye
Three-dimensional mapping of optical near field of a nanoscale bowtie antenna, Rui Guo, Edward C. Kinzel, Yan Li, Sreemanth M. V. Uppuluri, Arvind Raman, and Xianfan Xu
Exciton antennas and concentrators from core-shell and corrugated carbon nanotube filaments of homogeneous composition, Jae-Hee Han, Geraldine LC Paulus, Ryuichiro Maruyama, Daniel A. Heller, Woo-Jae Kim, Paul W. Barone, Chang Young Lee, Jong Hyun Choi, Moon-Ho Ham, Changsik Song, C Fantini, and Michael S. Strano
A comprehensive flow regime map for microchannel flow boiling with quantitative transition criteria, Tannaz Harirchian and Suresh Garimella