ELEG646 NANOELECTRONIC DEVICE PRINCIPLES

- University of Delaware -

SPRING 2008

Instructor: Prof. Ian Appelbaum

Office Hours: Anytime at 217C Evans

Phone: x3295

email: appelbaum at ee.udel.edu

syllabus

Lecture 1: Intro to Quantum Mechanics

Lecture 2: Time-Independent Schrodinger Eqn and notable examples

Lecture 3: Discretizing the Time-Independent Schrodinger Eqn: periodic potential and bound states

Lecture 4: Bra-Ket notation and Perturbation Theory

Lecture 5: Applications of perturbation theory: QCSE and k.p effective mass

Lecture 6: Bandstructure in >1-D and scattering/transmission theory

Lecture 7: Mode-matching

Lecture 8: WKBJ and "conduction is transmission"

Lecture 9: Summing over states: charge current calculation

Lecture 10: Nonzero temp and 1-D conduction

Lecture 11: State broadening and conductor potential

Lecture 12: Transport in homogeneous conductors and Boltzmann transport equation

Midterm/Midterm solutions

Lecture 13: Transport in thin-films: Fuchs-Sondheimer BTE and a bit more on SETs

Lecture 14: Electrons in Semiconductors: Conduction and Valence bands

Lecture 15: Electrostatic Potential and Semiconductor Band Diagrams

Lecture 16: Self-Consistent Schroedinger-Poisson band diagram / Diffusion and Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem

Lecture 17: Continuity and Fokker-Planck Equation

Lecture 18: Mobility, Diffusion Coef, and Lifetime without Pulse measurements: Spin-polarized electron transport; Ideal Diode Equation and Quasi-Fermi Energies

Lecture 19: Depletion Approximation and Capacitance for the p-n Junction

Lecture 20: Esaki Diode and MOSFET Strong Inversion Approximation

Lecture 21: Sub-Threshold Swing and MOSFET Scaling

Lecture 22: MOS devices - CCD and flash / Qual prep

Final & solutions

Project 1: Due 3/28

Project 2: Due 5/23