NanoBlog

The Science in Japan Forum is hosting a program on Frontiers of Research on Low-Dimensional Systems Oct 3, 2014 in W.DC. Topics include:

• carbon nanotubes
• quantum dots
• graphene
• atomically thin materials

EChem Nanowires Education Foundation Inc. and Argonne National Laboratory have developed an educational kit that allows students to fabricate nanowires. The nanowire fabrication kit uses an insulated nanodiamond film on a substrate that is etched to expose edges of the nanodiamond film. An electroplating solution is added and the metal ions self align on the exposed nanodiamond film. The nanowires are lifted off the nanodiamond film for use in the intended application. The nanodiamond film can be reused indefinitely. Several short videos are available that show how the process works. It's a really neat idea and won the 2014 Award of the Year from R&D magazine.

C&EN is hosting Advances in Drug Discovery and Development Virtual Symposium on Sept 24, 2014 at 7:30 AM EDT. The program covers:

• Next-gen medicines
• New gene targeting technologies
• Genomic applications
• Business strategies
• Informatics in the R&D environment

The talks are split into two tracks and there is a tool to help you select your talks of interest.

Semicoductor Companies is a directory of semiconductor companies and it provides basic information, location, photos, and user reviews about these companies. Companies are listed by state or are searchable by keyword or industry.

The Sept 2014 issue of the IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society is now available and is open access. The article in this months issue include

• Graphene for Electron Devices: The Panorama of a Decade
• On the Device Design and Drive-Current Capability of SOI Lateral Bipolar Transistors
• Enhanced Field Effect Mobility on 4H-SiC by Oxidation at 1500°C
• All-Graphene Planar Double Barrier Resonant Tunneling Diodes
• First Demonstration of Ultra-Thin SiGe-Channel Junctionless
• Accumulation-Mode (JAM) Bulk FinFETs on Si Substrate with PN Junction-Isolation Scheme
• Sub-10-nm Asymmetric Junctionless Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors
• Solid-State Image Sensors

The 2dmatter website posts abstracts and links to recent papers on 2D materials from journals that include:

• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review B
• Applied Physics Letters
• IEEE Transaction on Electron Devices
• IEEE Electron Device Letters
• IEEE Nanotechnology
• Proceedings of IEEE
• Scientific Reports
• Nature Nanotechnology
• ACS NANO and Nano Letters.

The website was created and run by nanoTCAD ViDES

The nanoHUB.org is offering the new course Nanophotonic Modeling on Sept 18, 2018. The course runs for 5 weeks and covers:

• Week 1: Bandstructures and Bandgaps
• Week 2: Solving Multilayered Photonic Systems
• Week 3: Direct Simulation of Maxwell’s Equations in Time
• Week 4: Advanced Time-Domain Simulations
• Week 5: Simulating Multiscale Systems with Finite-Element Methods

Tweaktown did a short interview with Dr. Simon Sze at the Flash Memory Summit 2014. Dr. Sze is the co-inventor of the floating gate and author of many books on semiconductor physics. He is working on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on semiconductor physics according to his comments in the interview. I would really like to take his course.

Nanotechweb.org has posted three podcasts on electromagnetism at the nanoscale. Professors Jennifer Dionne, Satoshi Kawata, and Adarsh Sandhu are interviewed in these podcasts. In podcast 1, these professors describe scattering at the nanoscale, non-progating light on surfaces, and interactions of light with non-magnetic materials that induce magnetic like responses in metamaterials. Podcast 2 describes electromagnetic interactions at the nanoscale, and podcast 3 describes future research of electromagnetism at the nanoscale.

IOP Nanotechnology has posted a special issue on THz Nanotechnology and some articles are open access.