NSF-CISE-CCF-EMT Workshop on Emerging Models Technologies for Computations in Nanoelectronics

NSF-CEISE-CCF-EMT用于纳米电子学计算的新兴模型技术研讨会项目摘要纳米技术是一个令人兴奋的领域，具有许多潜在的应用。它的影响已经在材料、工程、电子、医学和其他学科中感受到。目前的纳米技术研究需要强大的多学科知识和新兴的模型技术来进行纳米电子学领域的计算，前景广阔。纳米电子学成为当今成功的主要研究领域--S微电子学。它不仅在通信和计算领域带来了前所未有的革命，而且在其他科学和工程领域也带来了前所未有的革命，如工业、生物科学、医学和环境科学中的纳米级测量。由计算新兴模型和技术(EMT)计划资助的NSF研讨会由弗吉尼亚理工大学的凯瑟琳·米汉博士和徐勇组织。于2007年10月15日至16日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。研讨会的主要目的是让目前纳米电子系统领域的主要研究人员和主要研究人员审查EMT计划对纳米电子计划要素在多个方面的影响：研究、最终导致美国更具竞争力的技术转让和建立新的创业公司、本科生和研究生教育、促进跨学科教学和研究活动、工程师培训和社会效益，即在高中生和整个社会中激发热情。研讨会聚焦了几个挑战主题：分子电子学、纳米体系结构，以及针对量子电子学中的不确定性和缺陷的CAD工具。与会者还建议NSF创建学生交流计划，以分享信息和经验，发展短期课程培训，开展跨学科会议/研讨会，提供不同级别的教程，并创建关于最新研究的高级讲座，以及针对小型但协作研究的跨学科拨款建议。根据这些建议，PI建议组织基于需要的NSF资助的外部研讨会，以加强现有的纳米电子系统研究的EMT计划。拟议的讲习班旨在提供一个分享和发展教育组成部分的机会。除了推广纳米电子学的一系列短期课程和讲座外，工作坊还将为本科生、高中理科教师和精选的K12学生提供培训课程。是次教育工作坊的目的是为教师提供一个很好的机会，分享他们与新兴纳米电子学模型技术有关的经验和课程大纲，并讨论如何将当前的研究课题整合到现有的研究生学分课程中，并为本科生开发以知识为基础的短期课程。以及如何建立校外计划，鼓励K12学生和他们的老师参与和参与纳米技术的学习和探索。工作坊将为K12、本科生和研究生提供(1)纳米技术基础纳米电子学的基础课程，(2)为公众提供在线、开放获取的知识库和课程开发；因此，为了促进这一交叉学科领域的大学教育，(3)为大学生和PI开发短期课程，以学习与纳米电子学相关的多个学科和材料，(4)为研讨会参与者提供高级教程，并组织辅导会议，(5)征集科学论文，并组织研讨会技术报告、海报会议，以及处理研讨会论文，进行发表和报刊推荐论文。这一建议的智力优势在于缺乏现有的内部研讨会和教育计划机制，即多学科领域的纳米电子学。拟议的讲习班试图在这一领域组织一次国家认可的讲习班，不仅向研究机构提供，而且向公众开放。这个研讨会有三个主要的科学价值。第一个是协调各级教育研讨会，第二个是保持纳米电子学技术教程和讲座的最新水平，特别是通过EMT计划，提供NSF-CDISE-CCF推动的纳米计算与其他NSF计划之间的联系。三是促进纳米电子器件的发明和应用。从更广泛的影响来看，这项建议被认为是纳米电子学领域未来应用的巨大潜力。纳米技术已经成为一个重要而令人兴奋的领域，主要是在基础科学方面，毫无疑问，在不久的将来，纳米技术将对纳米电子器件、纳米结构材料和纳米医学产生广泛的影响。因此，需要强大的纳米电子CAD设计工具来实现这项技术，并刺激纳米技术革命。因此，该项目为纳米技术和EMT的研究和开发社区架起了桥梁。此外，拟议的努力包括各级培训内容，包括为该纳米科学和技术领域的理工科本科生和研究生提供课程和纳米技术教育，从而增加国家的竞争力。

NSF-CISE-CCF-EMT Workshop on Emerging Models Technologies for Computations in NanoelectronicsProject SummaryNanotechnology is an exciting field with many potential applications. Its impact is already being felt in materials, engineering, electronics, medicine, and other disciplines. Current research in nanotechnology requires strong multi-disciplinary knowledge and emerging models technologies for computations in the field of nanoelectronics with promising. Nanoelectronics become the main research domain that successes in today?s microelectronics. It brings an unprecedented revolution in not only communications and computing, but also in other scientific and engineering fields such as nano-scale measurements in industrials, bioscience, medical and environmental sciences.A NSF workshop, funded by a NSF grant from the Emerging Models and Technologies (EMT) for Computation (EMT) Program was organized by Drs. Kathleen Meehan and Yong Xu, Virginia Tech. on October 15-16, 2007 in Arlington, Virginia. The primary objective of the workshop was to allow the current principal investigators and leading researchers in the field of nanoelectronic systems to review the impacts of the EMT Program for the nanoelectronics program element on various fronts: research, technology transfer culminating into better competitiveness of the USA and establishing new start-up companies, undergraduate and graduate education, promotion of cross-disciplinary teaching and research activities, training of engineers, and societal benefits, namely engendering enthusiasm amongst high school students and society in general. The workshop focused several challenge topics: molecular electronics, nanoarchitecurre, and CAD tools for uncertainty and defects in quantum electronics. The attendees also recommended NSF to create student exchange programs for information and experience sharing, to develop short course training, interdisciplinary conference/workshops with tutorials at different levels, and to create high-level lectures on the state-of-the-art research, and as well as interdisciplinary grant proposals for small but collaborative investigations.Based on the recommendations, the PI proposes to organize the need-based external NSF funded workshop to enhance the existing EMT Program in nanoelectronic systems research. The proposed workshop aims to providing an opportunity to share and develop education components. In addition to promote a series of short courses and lectures in nanoelectronics, the workshop will have a training session for undergraduate students, high school teachers of science and selective K12 students.The objectives of this education workshop is a great opportunity fro faculty to share their experience and course curriculum which are related to emerging model technologies for nanoelectronics and to discuss how the current research topics can be integrated into existing graduate credit courses, and to develop short and knowledge-based courses for undergraduate students, and how to create off school program to encourage K12 students and their teachers to participate in and involve to nanotechnology learning and exploration.The workshop will provide (1) basic courses about fundamental nanoelectronics in nanotechnology for K12, undergraduate and graduate students, (2) provide online, open-access repository and course curriculum developments for public; thus to promote college education in this interdisciplinary field, (3) Develop short courses for college students and PIs to learn multiple subjects and materials that are related to nanoelectronics, (4) provide advanced tutorials for workshop participations and organize a tutorial sessions, and (5) solicit scientific papers; and organize workshop technical presentation, poster sessions; and process workshop paper proceeding publication and selected paper recommended for journals.The intellectual merits of this proposal lie in the shortage of existing internal workshop and education program mechanism the multidisciplinary domain in nanoelectronics. The proposed workshop attempts to organize a national-recognized workshop in this domain and make it available not only to research institutes but also to public. There are three major scientific merits in this workshop. The first is to coordinate a workshop for education at all levels, and the second is to remain the state-of-the-art of technical tutorials and lectures in nanoelectronics, especially through EMT Program to provide the linkage between nano-computation promoted by NSF-CISE-CCF and other NSF programs. The third one is to promote nanoelectronics device inventions and its applications.The broader impact of this proposal is considered that the area of nanoelectronics has great potentials for future applications. Nanotechnology has emerged as a significant and exciting field, primarily with respect to the basic sciences, and will undoubtedly have a broad impact on nano-electronic devices, nano-structured materials, and nano-medicine in the near future. As a result, powerful nanoelectronics CAD design tools are needed to bring this technology to fruition and to stimulate the nanotechnology revolution. Consequently, the project bridges the research and development communities of nanotechnology and EMT. In addition, the proposed effort includes a training component at all levels, including courses and a nanotechnology education for science engineering undergraduate and graduate students in this nanoscience and technology fields, thus to increase the competitiveness for the nation.