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
Corequisite
ONE of |
APSC 201 – Technical Communication |
MTLR 478 – Electronic Materials |
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