Nanotechnology

EECS, Spring 2005

Graduate Course, 3 units

    Syllabus

Coordinator and schedule:

Peter Burke
e-mail: pburke@uci.edu
Office: EG 2232

Pre-requisite

Physics 51A and 113A or consent of instructor. (Design units:0). 

Course Description

Fabrication and characterization techniques of electrical circuit elements at the nanometer scale. Quantized conductance, semiconductor quantum dots, single electron transistors, molecular wires, carbon nanotubes, self-assembly of nano-circuit elements, quantum methods of information processing.                                                                                

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the students should be able to understand
1) Electrical conduction at the nanometer scale, and its quantization
2) Fabrication techniques of nanometer sized electrical devices.
3) Characterization techniques of nanometer sized electrical devices.

Lecture notes

Homeworks:

Course Outline

§  Introduction to nanoscale systems. Length, energy, and time scales

§  Top-down approach to nanolithography: Spatial resolution of optical,
  deep ultraviolet, x-ray, electron beam, and ion beam lithography. 

§  Wave-particle duality, quantized energies, particle in a box, Fermi-Dirac
  distribution function, density of states, concept of dimensionality

§  Quantum mechanical tunneling, tunnel diodes

§  Single electron transistor, coulomb blockade

§  Quantum confinement of electrons in semiconductor nanostructures:
  two-dimensional confinement (quantum wells). Band gap engineering. Epitaxy.

§  Landauer-Buttiker formalism for conduction in confined geometries.

§  One-dimensional confinement: Nanowires

§  Quantization of electrical resistance: quantum point contacts

§  Bottom-up approach. Chemical self-assembly, carbon nanotubes.

§  Introduction to quantum methods of information processing

§  Bio-nano electronics

Required Text Books

David Ferry, Transport in Nanostructures, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

There will also be a reading packet and the lecture notes available
in the copy center at the base of Engineering Tower.

Optional Text Books

Y. Imry, Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics, Oxford University Press, 1997.
S. Datta, Electron Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
H. Grabert and M. Devoret, Single Charge Tunneling, Plenum Press, 1992.
Beenaker and Van Houten, Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures, in Solid State Physics v. 44, eds. Ehernreich and Turnbull, Academic Press, 1991.
P. Rai-Choudhury, Handbook of Microlithography, Micromachining & Microfabrication, SPIE, 1997.

Computer Usage:      Computer usage is not required.

Laboratory Projects: None.

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