| Class | Date | Topic | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| reading | |||
| 1 | Aug. 30 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Sept. 1 | Feynman's Lecture | Review of Feynman's Lecture |
| Feynman's lecture | |||
| 3 | Sept. 6 | CMOS, Transistors & Fabrication | Review |
| Fabrication of MOSFETs | |||
| 4 | Sept. 8 | Nano-Lithography | Review |
| Unconventional Nanofabrication, B. Gates, Q. Xu, J. Love, D. Wolfe, and G. Whitesides, Annual Review of Materials Research v34 n1, pp 339-372 | |||
| 5 | Sept. 16 | Self-assembly 1 | Review |
| Self-Assembly at All Scales, Whitesides and Grzybowski, Science, v295, n5564, pp2418-2421 | |||
| Beyond molecules: self-assembly of mesoscopic and macroscopic components, Whitesides and Boncheva, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Apr 16;99(8):4769-74. | |||
| 6 | Sept. 20 | Transistor and scaling | |
| Moore's Law Forever, M. Lundstrom, Science 2003 Jan 299(5604):210-211 | |||
| Limits on Silicon Nanoelectronics for Terascale Integration, J. Meindl, Q. Chen, and J. Davis, Science 2001 Sept 293(5537):2044-2049 | |||
| 7 | Sept. 27 | Molecular devices | Review |
| The Role of Metal-Nanotube Contact in the Performance of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors, Zhihong Chen, Joerg Appenzeller, Joachim Knoch, Yu-ming Lin, and Phaedon Avouris, Nano Letters 2005 5(7):1497 - 1502 | |||
| Whence Molecular Electronics?, A. Flood, J. Stoddart, D. Steuerman, J. Heath, 2004 Dec, Science 306():2055-7 | |||
| 8 | Sept. 29 | Circuits - Decoders | Review; |
| Nanowire Crossbar Arrays as Address Decoders for Integrated Nanosystems, Z. Zhong, D. Wang, Y. Cui, M. Bockrath, and C. Lieber, Science 21 November 2003; 302: 1377-1379 | |||
| Demultiplexer For a Molecur Wire Crossbar Network (MWCN DEMUX), P. Kuekes, R. Williams, July 2001, US Patent No. 6,256,767 B1 | |||
| 9 | Oct. 6 | Molecular Memory Architectures | Review; |
| Nonphotolithographic Nanoscale Memory Density Prospects, A. DeHon, S. Goldstein, P. Kuekes, and, P. Lincoln. IEEE Trans. ON Nanotechnology, March 2005; 4(2):215-228 | |||
| 10 | Oct. 7 | Molecular-based Architectures | Review; |
| Array-Based Architecture for FET-Based, Nanoscale Electronics, A. DeHon, IEEE T. on Nanotechnology, March 2003, 2(1):23--32 | |||
| NanoFabrics: Spatial Computing Using Molecular Electronics, S. Goldstein and M. Budiu. ISCA ’01, Goteborg, Sweden, July 2001 | |||
| 11 | Oct. 11 | ITRS future directions | Review; |
| ITRS - Emerging Research Directions, Int'l Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, 2004 | |||
| Oct. 13 | No Classes - Yom Kippur | ||
| 12 | Oct. 14 9am NSH3501 | DNA computing | Review |
| Computing with DNA, L. Adleman, Scientific American, Aug 1998 | |||
| Optional: A Sticker Based Model for DNA ComputationS. Roweis, E. Winfree, et. al, J. Computational Biology, 1998 Winder, 5(4):615-29 | |||
| 17 | Oct. 18 | DNA computing (2) | Midterm |
| A Sticker Based Model for DNA ComputationS. Roweis, E. Winfree, et. al, J. Computational Biology, 1998 Winder, 5(4):615-29 | |||
| 14 | Oct. 20 | DNA-based self-assembly | Review |
| DNA Computing by Self-Assembly, E. Winfree, NAE's The Bridge, 33(4):31-38, 2003 | |||
| Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA Sierpinski Triangles, P. Rothemund, N. Papadakis, and E. Winfree, PLOS Biology, 2(12) e424, 2004. "Modeling Tile-Based Self-Assembly" on pages 2042-2044 | |||
| 15 | Oct. 27 | Graph grammers and self assembly | Review |
| Graph Grammars for Self Assembling Robotic Systems, E. Klavins, R. Ghrist, D. Lipsky, ICRA 2004. | |||
| 18 | Nov. 3 | Complexity of self-assembly | Review |
| The Program-Size Complexity of Self-Assembled Squares, P. W. K. Rothemund and E. Winfree, STOC. 2000. | |||
| 19 | Nov. 8 | proposals Due | |
| 20 | Nov. 10 | Amorphous Computing | Review both papers |
| Amorphous computing, H Abelson, D Allen, D Coore, C Hanson, G Homsy, T Knight, R Nagpal, E Rauch, G Sussman, R Weiss. Communications of the ACM, Volume 43 Issue 5, May 2000 | |||
| Programmable Pattern-Formation and Scale-Independence, R. Nagpal. ICCS, 2002. | |||
| 20 | Nov. 15 | Shape Planning | Review |
| Scalable Shape Sculpting via Hole Motion: Motion Planning in Lattice-Constrained Modular Robots, M. De Rosa, S. Goldstein, P. Lee, J. Campbell, P. Pillai. 2005. | |||
| 21 | Nov. 17 | Error Correction and Self-Assembly | |
| Error Free Self-Assembly with Error Prone Tiles, H. Chen and A. Goel. Proceedings of the 10th International Meeting on DNA Based Computers, 2004. | |||
| 22 | Nov. 22 | Final Project - Initial Presentations | |
| 23 | Nov. 29 | The Nanotechnology Design Space | |
| 24 | Dec. 6 | Market Models for Emergent Behavior | Review |
| Market-Oriented Programming: Some Early Lessons, M. Wellman. 1995 | |||
| 24 | Dec. 8 | Final Project - Update | |