Nanotechnology in Electronics
Topics of special importance to understanding and designing electronic devices in which quantum effects and the discrete nature of matter become important.
3 credits
Course Outline
- Review of syllabus and introduction to nanoelectronics
- Review of quantum mechanics of confined systems
- Numerical methods for solving the Schrödinger equation
- Multiple particle systems and the self-consistent field
- Particle statistics and density of states
- Electron confinement in 2D, 1D, and 0D
- Periodic potentials and the band theory of solids
- Confinement and subbands
- What makes electrons flow and the one level rate equations
- Quantum dots, the coulomb blockade, and single electron transistors
- Nanowires, nanotubes, and ballistic transport
Textbook
G. W. Hansen, “Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics”, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-195708-2
Prerequisite
| ONE of |
| CHEM 312 – Introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Spectroscopy |
| ELEC 315 – Electrical Engineering Materials and Devices |
| PHYS 250 – Introduction to Modern Physics |
| PHYS 304 – Introduction to Quantum Mechanics |
Corequisite
| ONE of |
| APSC 201 – Technical Communication |
| MTLR 478 – Electronic Materials |