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Foundations of Nanoelectronics

EE/PHYS/Mech. Eng. 8th Sem. or Postgraduate

The lecture presents the fundamental physical concepts and mathematical tools necessary to understand the phenomena observed in nanometer-size devices.
Main topics are:
  1. Nanoelectronics/-optics/-magnetics: state-of-the-art
  2. Quantum and statistical mechanics of low-dimensional systems
  3. Relevant results from condensed matter physics
  4. Physics of transport in solid and organic materials
  5. Transport and storage in low-dimensional systems
  6. Light-matter interaction and nano-optics
  7. Thin layers and magnetic effects
  8. Carbon electronics: fullerenes, nanotubes and graphene
  9. Spin transport and spintronics
  10. Beyond the solid state: molecular electronics

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Last change:  7 July 2011    Author:  Qiuting Huang