Lecture Notes - Summer Term 2017
"CURRENT TOPICS in NANOELECTRONICS"
SYLLABUS
1. Nanoscale CMOS, short channel effects, limits - end of Moore’s law
2. Electrons in quantum structures - 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
3. Length scales
4. Nanotubes
5. 2D materials (incl. graphene)
6. Quantum capacitance
7. Localization
8. Aharonov-Bohm effect
9. Phase-transition transistors
10. Quantum contacts, quantum of conductance
11. Non-superconducting persistent currents
12. Quantum effects in transport, devices based on quantum transport
13. Quantum dots, Coulomb blockade, single electron transistors
14. Spintronics and spin-orbit devices
15. Valleytronics, orbitronics
16. Hybrid electronic / ionic devices
17. Brain-inspired electronic devices, neuromorphic computing
18. Molecular electronics
19. Qubits
20. Fundamental limits in computation
The course requires the lectures Solid State Physics 1 and 2
LECTURE NOTES
1) CMOS
2) Electrons in Quantum Structures - 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D
2.1 Slides of lecture for 2) and 3)
3) Length scales
4) Nanotubes
5) 2D Materials (incl. graphene)
6) Quantum capacitance
7) Localization
7.2 Goodies
8) Aharonov-Bohm effect
9) Phase-transition transistors