NanoBlog

Quantum electronics turns 40 this year so IOP Science has issued a special collection on the subject. Happy Birthday QE!

Mike Crommie gives this presentation Manipulating Graphene at the Atomic Scale: adatoms, strain and edges at the Topical Research Meeting on Physics: Graphene and Related Two Dimensional Materials at Institute of Physics on June 2nd 2011.

Phaedon Avouris from IBM gives this presentation on Graphene-based electronics and optoelectronics at the Topical Research Meeting on Physics: Graphene and Related Two Dimensional Materials at Institute of Physics on June 2nd 2011.

Professor Geim gives the Updated Graphene presentation at the Topical research Meeting on Physics: Graphene and Related Two Dimensional Materials at Institute of Physics on June 2nd 2011.

Governments around the world have invested $65B in nanotechnology in this global nanotechnology funding report generated by Cientifica. The global investment in nanotechnology is expected to reach $100B in 2014. China's investment in nanotechnology is some aspects has surpassed the US.

Berkeley Design Automation has posted a number of white papers on SPICE simulations for nm scale circuits running at GHz rates in silicon CMOS.

The University of Manchester has produced a graphene game and a virtual TEM tool (coming soon) for your iPhone or Android smart phone.

Philip Kim from Columbia University give an interesting talk on Graphene and hexa-BN Heterostructures at the Topical Research Meeting on Physics: Graphene and Related Two Dimensional Materials at Institute of Physics, June 3rd 2011 in London.

The IOP Science Journal on Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering has produced a special issue on the modeling of graphene. The issue is open access so read it while you can.

NIST has posted some wonderful nanoscale art.