Prof. Shaikh S Ahmed: External Links

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Centers/Groups

Federal and Local: USA Science and Technology Research Agencies

Societies: National Academies IEEE APS ACS MRS TMS National Nanotechnology Initiatives Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)

Foundations: NSF PRF Sloan Research Corporation
Industries: SRC Intel Corporation IBM AMD Motorola Synopsis Boeing Freescale IEEE Real World Engineering Projects

Notable Research Centers/Universities:

National Laboratories Advanced Light Sources The MARCO/DARPA Focus Center on Materials, Structures, and Devices

Ar izona State University Stanford University Computational Group at University of Illinois nanoHUB.org

Cambridge University SIUC ECE

Nobel Prize Inventors Hall of Fame U.S. Patent and Trademark Office IEEE Medal of Honor

Others: SIUC OSPA Grant Forward Community of Sciences grants.gov Writing a proposal Funding opportunities

Journals/Conferences/Science News

Physics Journals	arXiv Physical Review Series Applied Physics Letter Journal of Applied Physics Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Physica E Superlattices and Microstructures Physica Status Solidi (c) Journal of Physics A, B, C, D, G New Journal of Physics American Journal of Physics European Journal of Physics Europhysics Letter Condensed Matter Solid State Physics Nature Materials Advances in Physics Advanced Materials Rev. Modern Physics Physics Reports Physics Letters B
Chemistry Journals	NanoLetters Journal of Physical Chemistry Chemical Reviews Journal Impact Factor
IEEE Journals	Transaction on Electron Devices (TED) Electron Device Letters (EDL) Transactions on Nanotechnology Solid State Electronics IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics Optical and Quantum Electronics Proceedings of the IEEE (Proc. IEEE) IEEE Xplore
Popular Science	Nature Online Science Online IEEE Spectrum Scientific American PNAS Physics Today Scirus Technology Review (MIT) Physics World EurekaAlert Science Daily Popular Science Great Thinkers Scanning Microscope
Nanoscience Portal	Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology NanotechWeb.org NanoLetters
*Computing*	SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing SIAM Review International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications Journal of Computational Electronics Journal of Computational Physics
Miscellaneous	IBM Journal of Research and Development Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics
Important Conferences	Physics: ICPS APSmarch(DL-October C-March) MRS(DL-October C-April, DL-June C-Nov/Dec) Device: IEDM(DL-May C-Dec) Device Conferences IEEE-NANO(DL-April C-July) DRC(DL-March C-June) IEEE NMDC(DL-June C-October) SSLdevices(C-July) Other Modeling: IWCE SISPAD(DL-March C-Sep) NSTI WCM Computational: LCI(DL-Ocober C-Mar/Apr) TeraGrid(DL- C-June)

nanoHUB.org Lectures and Other Webinars/Courses

nanoHUB SEMINARS
Nanomaterials	http://nanohub.org/resources/1914
Principles of Semiconductor Devices	https://nanohub.org/resources/5749
Concept of Quantum Transport	https://nanohub.org/resources/2039
Introduction to Nanoelectronics	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/5346/
Quantum Transport	https://nanohub.org/courses/ECE659/01a
NEGF	https://nanohub.org/wiki/Negf

Nanotechnology	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/1021/ Nanotechnology 501 Lecture Series nanoHUB Online Presentations Curriculum on Nanotechnology
MOSFET Process Variation	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/1883/
Circuit	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/2018/ https://www.nanohub.org/resources/2023/

Biosensors	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/986/ https://www.nanohub.org/resources/987/ https://www.nanohub.org/resources/988/ https://www.nanohub.org/resources/989/ https://www.nanohub.org/resources/170/ (Heath)

Energy	http://nanohub.org/resources/11888#series (solar cell) https://www.nanohub.org/resources/3996/ (Dresselhaus) https://www.nanohub.org/resources/2647/ (SSLs)

Thermoelectricity	https://www.nanohub.org/resources/383 (Sands) https://www.nanohub.org/resources/6081 (Datta)

MIT ONLINE VIDEO COURSES
Principles of Chemical Science Introduction to Solid State Chemistry Introduction to Biology Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials Symmetry, Structure, and Tensor Properties of Materials Electricity and Magnetism Circuits and Electronics Principles of Digital Communications I Computer System Engineering Introduction to Algorithms Differential Equations Linear Algebra Computational Science and Engineering I Mathematical Methods for Engineers II Introduction to Copyright Law Media, Education and Marketplace

OTHER

World's Best Science Page

High-Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing Community

Platform Cluster Manager (PCM)

Scientific Computing Notes

Other Science

Scirus Technology Review (MIT) Physics World EurekaAlert Science Daily Popular Science Great Thinkers

Scanning Microscope How Stuffs Work

Engineering Tools/Software/Package

Electrical Engineering Software: http://www.amanogawa.com/

Device and Process Simulations: http://www.siborg.ca/

Research Tools

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Software:	Computer Hardware & Architecture Multicore Processor Software Carpentry Linux/Unix/MacOX commands vi Editor Shell Scripting Bash sed/awk SVN/CVS C++ C Fortran icode MPI/openMP Valgrind XML Makefile gdb/ddd/TotalView Checkergcc doxygen in-line documentation Python Tcl Matlab (1 2)
Writing/ Presentation:	LaTeX LaTeX Documentation BibTeX Endnote SciDAVis VisIt xfig POVray gimp Gnuplot xmgr openDX MSoffice MSWord MSExcel MSPowerpoint Visio AdobeIllustrator AdobeDreamweaver MatlabPlots Origin IEEE Guide for Authors AIP Guide for Authors
Meeting/Sharing:	skype acrobat google dropbox
www/Publish:	arXiV INSPEC LANLpreprint server ScienceCitationIndex webofscience
*MATH/COMPUTATION*
Numerical Methods:	Mathematics & Numerics Resources Numerical Methods Library of Numerical Routines LEDA
Computing:	Scientific Computing Writing Science Software

SCIENCE/ENGINEERING
Materials science:	Argonne Lab scientific.net Polymer
Chemistry:	Computational Chemistry
Physics:	Condensed Matter Notes/Papers Material Properties of Semiconductors Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics
Devices:	Spintronic Devices Nanotechnology and Devices EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS: FETs: UC Berkeley MIT 1 2 MEMORY: Stanford (ZRAM) OPTOELECTRONICS: Boston HYBRID SOLAR CELL: SSLs: RPI Sart Lighting THERMOELECTRICITY: Oregon Sakuri Lab Shi Lab HARSH ENVIRONMENT DEVICES:
Circuits:	3-D Integration (fab2asm) Discover Circuits Building Gadgets

Important Conferences