NanoBlog

The IEEE Electron Devices Society applications for the Masters Student Fellowship and PhD Student Fellowship are due 5/15/16 and offer $2000 and $5000 in prizes respectively.

Peter Kinget gave a wonderful IEEE SSCS webinar on Ultra Low Voltage Analog and RF Design for nano-scale CMOS technologies yesterday. Scaling analog CMOS circuit supply voltages have been falling steadily following Moores law. Smaller transistors that have been fabricated in vast numbers has been an asset to digital circuit design. Lower supply voltages reduces power dissipation and leakage currents. The supply voltage is approaching 0.5 VDC, but it is becoming difficult to operate analog circuit on the same chip with such low voltage. Reducing the supply voltages by a factor q reduces the maximum peak-to-peak analog voltage that can be generated and this reduces the Signal to Noise Ration (SNR) by a factor of q², for example.


Photo: Self-duty cycled, self-synchronized UWB Receiver SoC (65nm CMOS)
ISSCC13 Kinget Group

Applications for the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility Research Experience for Undergraduates (CNF REU) Program are due Feb 17, 2016. Five selected interns receive 10 weeks of training in the Cornell Nanofab along with with $5000 stipend.

ACS Nano has published the in-depth review article Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene. The materials include graphene Boron Nitride, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), Molybdenum Diselenide, and elemental monolayers.

The Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) is offering a short course on Technology & Characterization at the Nanoscale (CNF TCN) on January 19 - 22, 2016. It is an intensive 3.5 day course on the science and technology of nanoscale research.

The UW NNIN Washington Nanofabrication Facility has openings for a senior nanofabrication engineer, and research scientist.

The University of Nottingham video series Sixty Symbols has posted a video on Left-handed electrons in bilayer graphene separated by h-BN (also see the extra footage). In the video Professor Laurence Eaves describes some of the result of the paper he co-authored: Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices.

The Center for Food Safety has created an interactive database on Nanotechnology in Our Food. The three most used nanomaterials in foods include:

• Silver
• Titanium Dioxide
• Nanoencapsulation

The database shows the product, manufacturer, claimed use, and country of origin for the nanomaterial. The USA appears to be the largest supply of most nanomaterials used in food products today.

Lots of examples, models, software, videos & tutorials for CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation. The website supports the book of the same name, and CMOS Mixed-Signal Circuit Design both written by R. Jacob Baker.

The 2014-2015 Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility Research Accomplishments is now available. Topics include:

• Biological Applications
• Chemistry
• Electronics
• Materials
• Mechanical Devices
• Optics and Opto-Electronics
• Physics and Nanostructure Physics
• Process and Characterization