GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Spring 2023 ECE 685: Nanoelectronics
Time and location: Tuesday 4:30 pm – 7:10 pm, Planetary Hall 126
Instructor: Qiliang Li, Engineering Bldg, Room 3250, Tel 703-993-1596, Email: qli6@gmu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:20pm – 4:20pm; other times by appointment.
Course DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on the fundamental concepts and principles of nanoelectronic materials and devices. Nanoelectronics is concerned with electronic devices with one or more dimensions at nanoscale. The lecture will cover the electronic properties of solids including semiconductors in samples of physical dimension of ~100 nm or less, and the corresponding basic device building blocks such as quantum dot (QD), single electron transistor (SET), nanowire, carbon nanotube (CNT), graphene, etc. The course will consider the design and analysis of a variety of nanoscale devices ("quantum" or "mesoscopic" devices) and examine the most notable, novel applications.
Prerequisites: ECE 584 "Semiconductor Device Fundamentals" or equivalent courses
Required Textbook: "Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics" by George W. Hanson, Pearson/Prentice Hall (2008), ISBN 978-0131957084.
RECOMMENDED READINGS:
1. "Mesoscopic Electronics in Solid State Nanostructures" by Thomas Heinzel.
2. "Nanoelectronics and Information Technology", 2nd Ed. by Rainer Waser (Ed.)
3. "Semiconductor Physical Electronics" by S. Li, Springer, ISBN 978-0387288932
COURSE OUTLINE
1. Course and Syllabus Overview
2. Classical particles, classical waves, and quantum particles
3. Quantum Mechanics of Electrons
4. Confined Electrons / Electrons Subject to a Periodic Potential
5. Tunnel Junctions and Applications of Tunneling
6. Coulomb Blockade and the Single-Electron Transistor
7. Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowire Transistors
8. Many Electron Phenomena-Particle Statistics
9. Models of Quantum Wells, Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots
10. Nanowires, Ballistic Transport, and Spin Transport
11. NanoCMOS / Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) CMOS
12. Fundamental Limits to Scaling
GRADING
Homework + project#1 + project#2 20% + 15% + 20%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 25%
(Exam will be announced in class at least two weeks before the exam.)
Lecture Notes, Slides, Reference Materials, Homework Assignments and Project Description
1. Chapter I Introduction to Nanoelectronics - Lecture Note Slides (ppt) and Lecture Note Slides (pdf)
2. Particles, waves and quantum particles - Lecture Note Slides (ppt) and Lecture Note Slides (pdf)
3. Chapter 3 Introduction of Quantum Mechanics - Lecture Note Slides (ppt) and Lecture Note Slides (pdf)
Homework #1
Chapter 3: Problem (page 81 -84)
1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 15, 16
Chapter 3 solution
Simulation software: Quantum Espresso, you can download the software here: https://www.quantum-espresso.org/news-events/news/quantum-espresso-v-6-4
Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Quantum+Espresso
Example papers: MoS2 phase change due to strain 2D MoS2-WS2 heterojunction
Project assignment
4. Chapter 4 Free and Confined Electrons - Lecture Note Slides (ppt)
Homework #2: 4.4, 4.8, 4.11 and 4.17, due on Feb 21
Chapter 4 problem solution
Chapter 4 text
5. Chapter 5 Electrons Subject to a Periodic Potential - Band Theory of Solids - Lecture Note Slides (ppt)
Chapter 5 text
Section 5.5 Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
MoS2 monolayers: effects of doping, strain and size
Homework #4: Chapter 5, page 177, Problem 2, 6, 17, 21. It is due on March 21, 2019
Project Phase 1 is due on March 21, 2019
Homework solution
6. Chapter 6 Tunnel Junctions and Applications of Tunneling - Lecture Note Slides (ppt) or pdf format
Homework #3: 6.4, 6.6 and 6.12, it is due on March 28, 2019
Chapter 6 solution
Midterm Exam 1 - March 23: covering Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.
Midterm Exam solution
7. Chapter 7 Coulomb Blockade and The single-electron transistor - Lecture Note slides part 1 and Lecture Note slides part 2
Chapter Text
Paper to read for Coulomb Blockade effect
Lecture Note slides part 2
Homework #5, Chapter 7: 7.3, 7.9, 7.11, 7.15. It is due on April 11.
Homework solution
8. Chapter 10 Nanowire and Ballistic Transport (lecture note)
Review of Ballistic Transport
Lecture 9 Magnetic materials and spintronics (slides)
Review of Spintronics -1 (self-reading)
Review of Spintronics -2 (self-reading)
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