NIRT: Chemically Tunable Nanoelectronic and Nanoelectromechanical Systems

NIRT：化学可调谐纳米电子和纳米机电系统该跨学科研究计划旨在建立一个基本的理解，即界面/表面对集成到器件中的纳米材料的电子和机械性能的影响。将开发表面化学来控制纳米材料，特别是单壁碳纳米管的高度环境敏感响应，并将进行纳米尺度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，这些化学可调纳米管将提供适合于开发新的纳米电子和机电体系结构的工程概念和设计的多功能构建块。NIRT项目的成功将为科学和工程的多个领域的研究和教育提供多样化的资源，以及可能产生具有前所未有能力的集成电子和传感器技术的新材料和新设备。还预计将丰富本科生和研究生课程以及开发计算/建模工具。

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.