The Birck Nanotechnology Center (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.
This series contains nanotechnology publications published through the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University.
Publications from 2007
Self-consistent simulations of nanowire transistors using atomistic basis sets, Neophytos Neophytou, Abhijeet Paul, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Gerhard Klimeck
Self-consistent simulations of nanowire transistors using atomistic basis sets, Neophytos Neophytou, Abhijeet Paul, Mark S. Lundstrom, and Gerhard Klimeck
Remotely adjustable check-valves with an electrochemical release mechanism for implantable biomedical microsystems, Tingrui Pan, Antonio Baldi, and Babak Ziaie
Internal entanglement amplification by external interactions, Uri Peskin, Zhen Huang, and Sabre Kais
General method for simulation of 2D GISAXS intensities for any nanostructured film using discrete Fourier transforms, Michael P. Tate and Hugh Hillhouse
Gold nanorods mediate tumor cell death by compromising membrane integrity, Ling Tong, Yan Zhao, Terry B. Huff, Matthew N. Hansen, Alexander Wei, and Ji-Xin Cheng
Controlling interfacial curvature in nanoporous silica films formed by evaporation-induced self-assembly from nonionic surfactants. II. Effect of processing parameters on film structure, Vikrant Urade, Luis Bollmann, Jonathan Kowalski, Michael P. Tate, and Hugh Hillhouse
Nanofabrication of double-gyroid thin films, Vikrant Urade, Ta-Chen Wei, Michael P. Tate, Jonathan Kowalski, and Hugh Hillhouse
Dimensional scaling treatment of stability of atomic anions induced by superintense, high-frequency laser fields, Qi Wei, Sabre Kais, and Dudley Herschbach
Mass transport and electrode accessibility through periodic self-assembled nanoporous silica thin films, Ta-Chen Wei and Hugh Hillhouse
High-Q micromachined three-dimensional integrated inductors for high-frequency applications, Dae-Hee Weon, Jong-Hyeok Jeong, and Saeed Mohammadi
Improved carrier injection in ultrathin-body SOI Schottky-barrier MOSFETs, M Zhang, Joachim Knoch, Joerg Appenzeller, and S Mantl
Publications from 2006
An energy-based model for electrowetting-induced droplet actuation, Vaibhav A. Bahadur and Suresh Garimella
Templated synthesis of gold-iron alloy nanoparticles using pulsed laser deposition, Won-Suk Chang, Jin-Won Park, Vijay Rawat, Timothy D. Sands, and Gil U. Lee
Rhombohedral structure of highly ordered and oriented self-assembled nanoporous silica thin films, Brian W. Eggiman, Michael P. Tate, and Hugh Hillhouse
Advances in mesoscale thermal management technologies for microelectronics, Suresh Garimella
Investigation of Device Parameters for Field-Effect DNA-Sensors by Three-Dimensional Simulation, Eddie Howell, Clemens Heitzinger, and Gerhard Klimeck
Accumulation Gate Capacitance of MOS Devices With Ultrathin High-κ Gate Dielectrics: Modeling and Characterization, Ahmad Ehteshamul Islam and Anisul Haque
Capture of airborne nanoparticles in swirling flows using non-uniform electrostatic fields for bio-sensor applications, Jaesung Jang, Demir Akin, Kwan Seop Lim, Steve Broyles, Michael R. Ladisch, and Rashid Bashir
Effective heights and tangential momentum accommodation coefficients of gaseous slip flows in deep reactive ion etching rectangular microchannels, Jaesung Jang and Steven Wereley
Enhancement-mode quantum transistors for single electron spin, G. M. Jones, B. H. Hu, C. H. Yang, M. J. Yang, and Yuli Lyanda-Geller
Atomistic simulations of long-range strain and spatial asymmetry molecular states of seven quantum dots, Marek Korkusinski and Gerhard Klimeck
Ballisticity of Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors: Role of Phonon Energy and Gate Bias, Siyuranga O. Koswatta, Sayed Hasan, Mark S. Lundstrom, M. P. Anantram, and Dmitri E. Nikonov
Dependence of DC characteristics of CNT MOSFETs on bandstructure models, Siyuranga O. Koswatta, Neophytos Neophytou, Diego Kienle, Gianluca Fiori, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Deposition of platinum clusters on surface-modified tobacco mosaic virus, Sang-Yup Lee, Jaewon Choi, Elizabeth Royston, David B. Janes, James N. Culver, and Michael T. Harris
Atomistic Simulation of Nanowires in the sp3d5s* Tight-Binding Formalism: from Boundary Conditions to Strain Calculations, Mathieu Luisier, Andreas Schenk, Wolfgang Fichtner, and Gerhard Klimeck
Nanometer scale electrode separation (nanogap) using electromigration at room temperature, Ajit K. Mahapatro, Subhasis Ghosh, and David B. Janes
Three-dimensional electrostatic effects of carbon nanotube transistors, Neophytos Neophytou, Jing Guo, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Hub-based Simulation and Graphics Hardware Accelerated Visualization for Nanotechnology Applications, Wei Qiao, Michael McLennan, Rick Kennell, David S. Ebert, and Gerhard Klimeck
A nanocapacitor with giant dielectric permittivity, S. K. Saha, Manuel DaSilva, qhang@purdue.edu Hang, Timothy D. Sands, and David B. Janes
Simulation and interpretation of 2D diffraction patterns from self-assembled nanostructured films at arbitrary angles of incidence: From grazing incidence (above the critical angle) to transmission perpendicular to the substrate, Michael P. Tate, Vikrant Urade, Jonathan Kowalski, Ta-Chen Wei, Benjamin D. Hamilton, Brian Eggiman, and Hugh Hillhouse
New stable multiply charged negative atomic ions in linearly polarized superintense laser fields, Qi Wei, Sabre Kais, and Nimrod Moiseyev
Ion transport in the microporous titanosilicate ETS-10, Ta-Chen Wei and Hugh Hillhouse
Quantum Transport with Spin Dephasing: A Nonequilibrium Green's Function Approach, Ahmet Ali Yanik, Gerhard Klimeck, and Supriyo Datta
Publications from 2005
Allowed wavevectors under the application of incommensurate periodic boundary conditions, Timothy B. Boykin, Neerav Kharche, and Gerhard Klimeck
Practical application of zne-folding concepts in tight-binding calculations, Timothy B. Boykin and Gerhard Klimeck
The discretized Schroedinger equation for the finite square well and its relationship to solid-state physics, Timothy B. Boykin and Gerhard Klimeck
Conductance quantization and zero bias peak in a gated quantum wire, R. W. Giannetta, T. A. Olheiser, M. Hannan, I. Adesida, and Michael R. Melloch
Quantum cascade laser gain medium modeling using a second-nearest-neighbor sp3s* tight-binding model, Jeremy Green, Timothy B. Boykin, Corrie D. Farmer, Michael Garcia, Charles N. Ironside, Gerhard Klimeck, Roger Lake, and Colin R. Stanley
Assessment of high-frequency performance potential of carbon nanotube transistors, Jing Guo, Sayed Hasan, Ali Javey, Gijs Bosman, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Role of Phonon Scattering in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors, Jing Guo and Mark Lundstrom
A special issue on bionanotechnology - Preface, Peixuan Guo
RNA nanotechnology: Engineering, assembly and applications in detection, gene delivery and therapy, Peixuan Guo
Synthesis and patterning of gold nanostructures on InP and GaAs via galvanic displacement, Mohammad R. Hormozi Nezhad, Masato Aizawa, Lon A. Porter Jr., Alexander E. Ribbe, and Jillian M. Buriak
The catalytic reduction of NO by H-2 on Ru(0001): Observation of NHads species, A. Hornung, Dmitry Zemlyanov, M. Muhler, and G. Ertl
Interactions of Fano resonances in the transmission of an Aharanov-Bohm ring with two embedded quantum dots in the presence of a magnetic field, Yong S. Joe, Arkady M. Satanin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Simulation of Phonon-Assisted Band-to Band Tunneling in Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors, Siyuranga O. Koswatta, Mark S. Lundstrom, M. P. Anantram, and Dmitri E. Nikonov
Ultra high-speed sorting, James F. Leary
Transport and functional behaviour of poly(ethylene glycol)-modified nanoporous alumina membranes, Sang Won Lee, Hao Shang, Richard T. Haasch, Vania Petrova, and Gil U. Lee
Effect of electron-nuclear spin interactions for electron-spin qubits localized in InGaAs self-assembled quantum dots, Seungwon Lee, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Gerhard Klimeck
High-performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistor with tunable Polarities, Yu-Ming Lin, Joerg Appenzeller, Joachim Knoch, and Phaedon Avouris
Conduction-band tight-binding description for Si applied to P donors, A. S. Martins, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, and Belita Koiller
Comparative three-dimensional imaging of living neurons with confocal and atomic force microscopy, Helen McNally, Bartek Rajwa, Jennifer Sturgis, and J. Paul Robinson
A magnetically driven PDMS micropump with ball check-valves, Tingrui Pan, Scott J. McDonald, Eleanor M. Kai, and Babak Ziaie
Resonant light interaction with plasmonic nanowire systems, Viktor Podolskiy, Andrey Sarychev, Evgenii Narimanov, and Vladimir Shalaev
Atomistic Approach for Nanoscale Devices at the Scaling Limit and Beyond - Valley Splitting in Si, Anisur Rahman, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Lundstrom, Timothy Boykin, and Nizami Vagidov
Imaging artefacts in atomic force microscopy with carbon nanotube tips, Mark C. Strus, Arvind Raman, and C. V. Nguyen
Order and orientation control of mesoporous silica films on conducting gold substrates formed by dip-coating and self-assembly: A grazing angle of incidence small-angle X-ray scattering and field emission scanning electron microscopy study, Michael P. Tate, Brian W. Eggiman, Jonathan Kowalski, and Hugh Hillhouse
Synthesis of thermally stable highly ordered nanoporous tin oxide thin films with a 3D face-centered orthorhombic nanostructure, Vikrant Urade and Hugh Hillhouse
On the Validity of the Parabolic Effective-Mass Approximation for the I-V Calculation of Silicon Nanowire Transistors, Jim Wang, Anisur Rahman, Avik Ghosh, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark Lundstrom
Theoretical Investigation of Surface Roughness Scattering in Silicon Nanowire Transistors, Jing Wang, Eric Polizzi, Avik Ghosh, Supriyo Datta, and Mark Lundstrom
Performance evaluation of ballistic silicon nanowire transistors with atomic-basis dispersion relations, Jing Wang, Anisur Rahman, Avik Ghosh, Gerhard Klimeck, and Mark Lundstrom
In vitro and in vivo two-photon luminescence imaging of single gold nanorods, Haifeng Weng, Terry B. Huff, Daniel A. Zweifel, Wei He, Philip S. Low, Alexander Wei, and Ji-Xin Cheng
Laser bending for adjusting curvatures of hard disk suspensions, Xi R. Zhang and Xianfan Xu
Electronic Properties of Silicon Nanowires, Yun Zheng, Christian Rivas, Roger Lake, Khairul Alam, Timothy B. Boykin, and Gerhard Klimeck
Publications from 2004
Detection of bacterial cells and antibodies using surface micromachined thin silicon cantilever resonators, Demir Akin, Amit Gupta, and Rashid Bashir
The discretized Schroedinger equation and simple models for semiconductor quantum wells, Timothy B. Boykin and Gerhard Klimeck
Valley Splitting in low-density quantum-confined heterostructures studied using tight-binding models, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, Paul von Allmen, Seungwon Lee, and Fabiano Oyafuso
Electrical resistance: an atomistic view, Supriyo Datta
Smooth Quantum Hydrodynamic model vs. NEMO Simulation of Resonant Tunneling Diodes, Carl L. Gardner, Gerhard Klimeck, and Christian Ringhofer
Effect of anharmonicity of the strain energy on band offsets in semiconductor nanostructures, Olga L. Lazarenkova, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, Seungwon Lee, and Gerhard Klimeck
Effect of wetting layers on the strain and electronic structure of InAs self-assembled quantum dots, Seungwon Lee, Olga L. Lazarenkova, Paul von Allmen, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Gerhard Klimeck
Nonlinear tapping dynamics of multi-walled carbon nanotube tipped atomic force microcantilevers, S. I. Lee, S. W. Howell, Arvind Raman, R. Reifenberger, C. V. Nguyen, and M. Meyyappan
Three-dimensional imaging of living and dying neurons with atomic force microscopy, Helen McNally and Richard B. Borgens
Frequency kesponse of top-gated carbon nanotube field-effect transistors, Dinkar V. Singh, Keith A. Jenkins, Joerg Appenzeller, D. Neumayer, Alfred Grill, and H.S. Philip Wong
Quantum Mechanical Analysis of Channel Access Geometry and Series Resistance in Nanoscale Transistors, R. Venugopal, S. Goasguen, S. Datta, and M. S. Lundstrom
Publications from 2003
Downstream oxygen etching characteristics of polymers from the parylene family, Russell R. A. Callahan, Kristin G. Pruden, Gregory B. Raupp, and Stephen P. Beaudoin
Electrostatics of nanowire transistors, Jing Guo, Jing Wang, E. Polizzi, Supriyo Datta, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Self-assembly of micro- and nano-scale particles using bio-inspired events, Helen McNally, M. Pingle, S. W. Lee, D. Guo, Donald E. Bergstrom, and Rashid Bashir
Simulating quantum transport in nanoscale MOSFETs: Ballistic hole transport, subband engineering and boundary conditions, Ramesh Venugopal, Zhibin Ren, and Mark S. Lundstrom
Publications from 2002
Performance Projections for Ballistic Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors, Jing Guo, Mark Lundstrom, and Supriyo Datta
Development of a Nanoelectronic 3-D (NEMO 3-D) Simulator for Multimillion Atom Simulations and Its Application to Alloyed Quantum Dots, Gerhard Klimeck, Fabiano Oyafuso, Timothy B. Boykin, R. Chris Bowen, and Paul von Allmen
Publications from 2001
A comparative analysis of studies on heat transfer and fluid flow in microchannels, Choondal B. Sobhan and Suresh Garimella
Publications from 1999
Nanoelectronic device applications of a chemically stable GaAs structure, David B. Janes, V. R. Kolagunta, M. Batistuta, B. L. Walsh, Ronald P. Andres, Jia Liu, J. Dicke, J. Lauterbach, T. Pletcher, E. H. Chen, Michael R. Melloch, E. L. Peckham, H. J. Ueng, Jerry M. Woodall, Takhee Lee, R. Reifenberger, C. P. Kubiak, and B. Kasibhatla