Support of the Workshop Entitled Transport Phenomena in Micro- and Nanodevices

ABSTRACTPROPOSAL没有。提案类型：研究者发起主要研究者：M. gad -el - haku机构：弗吉尼亚联邦大学“微纳米器件中的输运现象”研讨会的支持在过去几年中，对微纳米机电系统（分别为MEMS和NEMS）的兴趣经历了爆炸式的增长。在制造和利用MEMS和NEMS方面的快速进步并没有与对所涉及的非常规物理的理解相应的进步相匹配。提供这样的理解对于设计、优化、制造、利用和控制改进的微型装置是至关重要的。本次国际研讨会的主要目标是提高对微纳米器件中输运现象物理学的基本理解。美国国家科学基金会的部分支持将有助于一些美国学生和其他研究人员出席，否则他们将无法出席。该讲习班将于2004年10月17日至21日在夏威夷岛举行。会议将汇集一小群对MEMS和NEMS中输运现象的各个方面感兴趣的研究人员。这是质量、动量、能量和量子粒子在特征长度分别小至1微米和1纳米的设备中的传输。这次研讨会的一个独特之处在于将两个过去没有太多互动的群体聚集在一起，量子输运和经典输运。拟议的活动产生的更广泛的影响在于其对快速发展的微纳米技术的关注。讲习班提供的基本理解将导致以下领域的潜在进展：涉及颗粒和其他多相流、混合、燃烧、能量转换、计算、生物芯片、光子学、涉及输运现象的微制造，如自旋涂层和蚀刻、量子点和电路、有机和无机材料中的电子输运、分子电子学、分子中电子波函数的控制、量子计算和单电子器件。选定的论文和未来研究的路线图将以精装书或《流体物理学》特刊的形式出版，并将广泛提供给由CTS流体动力学与水力学、颗粒与多相过程和热传输与热加工项目共同资助的研究界。

ABSTRACTPROPOSAL NO.: CTS-0349849PROPOSAL TYPE: INVESTIGATOR INITIATEDPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: M. GAD-EL-HAKINSTITUTION: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SUPPORT OF THE WORKSHOP ENTITLED TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN MICRO-AND NANO-DEVICESInterest in micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS, respectively) has experienced explosive growth during the past few years. The rapid progress in fabricating and utilizing MEMS and NEMS has not been matched by corresponding advances in understanding of the unconventional physics involved. Providing such understanding is crucial to designing, optimizing, fabricating, utilizing and controlling improved minute devices. This international workshop has the primary objective of improving fundamental understanding of the physics of transport phenomena in micro- and nano-devices. Partial support from the National Science Foundation will facilitate the attendance of several American students and other researchers who would otherwise be unable to attend. The workshop will be held in the Island of Hawaii during the period 17-21 October 2004. The meeting will bring together a small but select group of researchers interested in all aspects of transport phenomena in MEMS and NEMS. That is the transport of mass, momentum, energy and quantum particles in devices with characteristic lengths as small as 1 micrometer and 1 nanometer, respectively. A unique aspect of this workshop is bringing together two communities that have not interacted much in the past, those of quantum transport and classical transport. The broader impact resulting from the proposed activity lies in its focus on rapidly advancing micro- and nanotechnologies. The fundamental understanding that the workshop provides will result in potential advances in areas such as: micro- and nano-systems involving particulate and other multiphase flows, mixing, combustion, energy conversion, computing, biochips, photonics, microfabrication involving transport phenomena, such as spin coating and etching, quantum dots and circuits, electronic transport through organic and inorganic materials, molecular electronics, control of electronic wave functions in molecules, quantum computations, and single-electron devices. Selected papers and a roadmap for future research will be published in the form of a hard cover book or a special issue of Physics of Fluids and will be made widely available to the research communityJointly funded by the CTS programs of Fluid Dynamics & Hydraulics, Particulate & Multiphase Processes, and Thermal Transport & Thermal Processing.