Education and Outreach (2002)

1. Materials Computation Center, University of Illinois Duane Johnson and Richard Martin, NSF DMR-9976550Summer School on Simulation of Electron Devices and MEMS Support from co-PI: David Ceperley, NSF (CRCD) EE-0088101 Education and Outreach (2002) Electron devices and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), i.e. micro-machines, are ubiquitous in computers and nano-technology devices, such as bio-sensors. Modeling devices for design purposes require theoretical and computational skills and meaningful applications achieved with experience. Our two-week Summer School on Simulations of electron devices and MEMS (organized by Umberto Ravaioli and Narayan Aluru at Illinois and others) taught the background and provided software to model MEMS via learning by doing. About 70 participants came to Illinois to conduct electrons through carbon nanotubes and nano-transistors, move electrons through molecular resistors,… Morning lectures were followed by afternoons devoted to learning by doing in computer laboratories humming with device software. Visualizing Results: Potential change across interface in nano-transistor (from lectures of Lundstrom, Purdue). Teamwork: From left, Post-Docs Andrei Golosov and Laurie Calvet (Harvard) and Mattias Hjort (Arizona) work with nanoMOS software. (See others on web.) Web-publishedlectures, notes, and labs from contributing lecturers may be found at http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu