ECE 600_02 - Advanced Device Electronics    

 

Instructor: Bruce Alphenaar, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Belknap Research Building, room 246.   Tel: 852-1554   Email: brucea@louisville.edu

                                               

Prerequisites: Physical electronics (ECE 542) and electrostatics (ECE 473); knowledge of differential equations, linear algebra, simple numerical methods and programming; background in the principles of modern physics.

 

Course outline:

1)    Introduction: Topic overview, Moore’s law, electron energy diagrams, scattering length scales, particle and wave nature of electrons, macroscopic versus microscopic conduction.

2)    Conductance calculation for one state system (Datta, Chap 1.)

3)    Calculation of energy levels using Schrödinger’s Equation (Datta, Chap 2)

4)    Tunneling transmission calculations

5)    Single Electron Tunneling and Coulomb blockade

6)    Band structure in 3D (Datta, Chap. 5)

7)    Subbands in systems with reduced dimensions, density of states (Datta, Chap 6)

8)    Conductance quantization, quantum point contacts, resonant tunneling diodes.

9)    Spin electronics and spin tunneling devices

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Students who complete this course will be able to:

1)      Calculate conductance of a one-state system.

2)      Determine energy levels and wave functions for simple confinement potentials.

3)      Calculate tunneling transmission coefficient for simple energy potentials.

4)      Describe single electron tunneling device operation.

5)      Determine subbands for devices with reduced dimensions.        

6)      Describe operation of quantum confined devices.

7)      Describe operation of spin tunneling devices.

 

Textbook: Supriyo Datta, Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 

 

Supplementary reading: Ben G. Streetman and Sanjay Banerjee, Solid State Electronic Devices, 5th edition, Prentice Hall, 2000.  David K. Ferry and Stephen M. Goodnick, Transport in Nanostructures, Cambridge University Press, 2001. C.W.J. Beenakker and H. van Houten, Quantum Transport in Nanostructures, in Solid State Physics, Volume 44, Academic Press, 1991. Karl Goser, Peter Glosekotter, and Jan Dienstuhl, Nanoelectronics and Nanosystems, Springer, 2004

 

Evaluation: Grades will be calculated from the average of the homework assignment grades (worth 40%) the final project grade (worth 25%), and the final exam grade (worth 35%).