NanoBlog

Paolo Scalisi has a five part series of articles on the Failures in Aerospace Applications on the Analog Planet website. The articles cover

• SEL (single event latchup)
• SEU (single event upset)
• SET (single event transient)
• SEB (single event burnout)
• SEFI (single event functional interrupt)
• SEGR (single event gate rupture)

The ACS Photonics Journal began publishing this year and the May 2014 issue articles are now available.

I've posted eight videos on Youtube detailing how to layout graphene FETs on a purchased graphene wafer using Layout Editor. The tutorial videos include an

• Introduction of what is to be build and describes the design rules
• How to setup and configure Layout Editor
• Die plan
• Make a Graphene FET
• Make a Hall Bar
• Make a van der Pauw structure
• Make a Contact Resistance measurement structure
• How to layout a Die

The videos have been submitted to the the Photomask Portal Layout Editor tutorial contest. My introduction slides are available now too.

Update 6/8/14: Photomask Portal announced that my videos won the contest!

Peter Boeggild gives the interesting TEDx talk Extreme Explorations in Flatland on graphene. He describes the benefits and challenges of the material, and is vision of the future with graphene.

The Graphene Supply, Application & Commercialisation 2014 will be held in Manchester UK on June 12-13, 2014.

The Cornell CNF is offering a short course on Technology & Characterization at the Nanoscale on June 3-6, 2014. The course consists of lectures and lab demonstrations to teach the fundamental concepts of nanoscience.

The MRS 4th International Symposium on Graphene Devices (ISGD-4) will be held Sept 21-25, 2014 at the Bellevue Hilton in Bellevue, WA neat Seattle. Topics include:

• Graphene electronics, spintronics, sensors, terahertz devices, photonics & laser applications
• Graphene functionalization
• Graphene growth: epitaxial, CVD, mechanical and chemical exfoliation, and substrate transfer
• Graphene nanochemistry
• Electronic, structural, optical, mechanical and transport properties of graphene
• Graphene and related devices theoretical investigation and modeling
• Graphene integration with related 2D materials

The IEEE SSCS will stream the Analog Digital Design talk given by Mark Horowitz on April 17 at the Maxim Integrated HQ in San Jose. The webinar will be streamed on May 20, 2014 at 12PM EST. The talk was very good and worth seeing.

Princeton University MIRTHE center is hosting the Mid-Infrared Medical Systems (MIMeS) workshop on July 21-22, 2014. The workshop will focus on consolidating initial long-term partnerships and research collaboration opportunities between industry, clinicians, and university partners.

The Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) is sponsoring the Understanding and Controlling Spins at the Nanoscale symposium on May 20, 2014. The featured speaker is Nobel prise winner Albert Fert.