Course Code
P466
Credit
8
Total Hours
42 Lectures + 14 Tutorials
Outcome of the Course
This course teaches the students important concepts and methods in nanoelectronics, with the aim to build their background for future research work in this area.
Approval
Syllabus
- Introduction and review of electronic technology
- From electronics to nano-electronics: particles, waves and Schrodinger equation, quantum description of atoms and molecules, quantum description of metals, semiconductors, junction devices, some newer building blocks for nano-electronic devices
- Fabrication and characterization methods for nano-electronics
- The field effect transistor FET: size limits and alternative forms
- Devices based on electron tunneling, resonant tunnel diodes, single electron transistors, molecular electronics, hybrid electronics
- Devices based on electron spin and ferromagnetism
- Qubits vs. binary bits in a quantum computer, applications of nano-electronic technology to energy issues
- Summary and brief comment on the future of nano-electronic techniques
Reference Books
- Quantumnano-electronics:AnIntroductiontoElectronicNanotechnologyandQuantumComputingby Edward L.Wolf
- Quantum Electronics by Amnon Yariv
- Nanophysics and Nanotechnology:An Introduction to Modern Conceptsin Nanoscience by Edward L. Wolf
- Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics by George Hanson
- Introduction to Nanoelectronics: Science, Nanotechnology, Engineering and Applications by Vladimir Mitin, Viatcheslav, A. Kochelap, Michael, A. Stroscio