NIRT: Chemically Tunable Nanoelectronic and Nanoelectromechanical Systems

化学可调谐纳米电子和纳米机电系统摘要该跨学科研究项目旨在建立对纳米材料集成到器件中的电子和机械性能的界面/表面效应的基本理解。将发展用于控制纳米材料（特别是单壁碳纳米管）高度环境敏感响应的表面化学，并进行纳米级表面和界面的协同计算和实验研究。预计这将导致简单而有效的化学手段来调整碳纳米管晶体管和谐振器的电子特性。此外，这些化学可调谐的纳米管将为开发新的纳米电子和机电结构的工程概念和设计提供通用的构建模块。该NIRT项目的成功将为多个科学和工程领域的研究和教育提供多样化的资源，以及新材料和设备，从而产生具有前所未有能力的集成电子和传感器技术。丰富的本科和研究生课程和计算/建模工具的发展也预期。

NIRT: Chemically Tunable Nanoelectronic and Nanoelectromechanical SystemsAbstractThe interdisciplinary research program aims to establish a fundamental understanding of interfacial/surface effects on the electronic and mechanical properties of nanoscale materials incorporated into devices. Surface chemistry to control the highly environment-sensitive responses of nanoscale materials, specifically single-walled carbon nanotubes will be developed, and synergistic computational and experimental studies of nanoscale surfaces and interfaces will be conducted. It is anticipated that this will lead to simple but effective chemical means to tune the electronic characteristics of carbon nanotube transistors and resonators Furthermore, these chemically tunable nanotubes will provide versatile building blocks suitable for developing engineering concepts and designs for novel nanoelectronic and electromechanical architectures. The success of this NIRT project will provide diverse resources for research and education in multiple fields of science and engineering as well as new materials and devices from which integrated electronics and sensor technologies with unprecedented capabilities may arise. Enrichment of undergraduate and graduate course curricula and development of computational/modeling tools are also anticipated.