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Kwant Quantum transport simulator is a Python tool based on the Tight Binding model designed to simulate quantum transport in devices. The tool is available for Windows, Ubuntu, Debian, and Mac OS X. Examples are given for a graphene flake, 3-D Majorana states, and a flying qubit. The package is open source and free to download.

IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society is an open access journal on electron devices. The Journal first published this year and there are 5 issues available now. There are articles on nanowire FETs, high speed transistors, APDs, and THz detection.

A CDT survey showed that RF designers prefer CMOS for their designs followed by GaAs and SiGe. In the future, CMOS will continue to be preferred but SiGe will replace GaAs in new designs. RF processes are advancing to the point that DSP techniques are becoming effective.

The Nanotechnology Education for Industry and Society (nanoEIS) had a workshop on education and training in Europe. Europe has been focused on industrial innovation and found that nanotechnology is stimulating much of this innovation. The study reports the need for nanotechnology education for organization outside of the R&D and industrial production to develop an ecosystem across multidisciplinary industries.

The ALD Pulse website was set up to serve the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) community. The website post blogs, videos about ALD basics, white papers, supplier listings, and has started an ALD Wiki project.

The ASME WorkSmart library provides members free access to 100+ textbooks and references. A number of nanotechnology, semiconductor, optoelectronics, materials, and MEMs titles and handbooks are available.

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) has a number of job openings available.

Plasma-Therm is hosting a Symposium on Nanotechnology at the Stanford NanoFabrication Facility on Sept 13, 2013 at 7:45 AM PDT. The speakers include:

• Dr. Paul Schroeder, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Lithography/Etch Process Interactions for Advanced Semiconductor Technology Nodes
• Prof. Greg Snider, University of Notre Dame, Ultra-low Power Electronics, Minimum Energy for Computation, and Single-electron Devices
• Dr. Kasey Russell, Harvard University, Exploiting Plasmonic Confinement: Visible Light Emission on Si
• Prof. Daniel Feezell, University of New Mexico, Nonpolar/Semipolar III-Nitrides for High-Efficiency Visible Optoelectronics
• Prof. Srabanti Chowdhury, Arizona State University, Current Status of GaN-based Power Electronic Devices and their Fabrication Challenges
• Dr. Miguel Urteaga, Teledyne Scientific Co., THz Transistors and Integrated Circuits

Agilent Technologies has made three nanoparticle webinars available on archive. The webinars include:

• Environmental application examples for nanoparticle characterization and speciation
• Food and cosmetics application examples for nanoparticle characterization and speciation
• Nanoparticles: Definition, regulations and analytical challenges

The HowToSmile.org website has posted an activity on exploring the material graphene for kid and adults. The website provides instructions based on the NISE NanoDays 2012 Graphene activity. It takes about 20 minutes to learn the lesson and lesson plan, and about $20 for materials for a group of students. A materials list is provided.