Nano- and Molecular-Scale Electronics
INSTRUCTOR:Prof. Mark Reed, Yale University
DATES: July 23-25, 2007 [3 Day Course]
LOCATION: Seattle, WA
A course detailing the physics and technology of post-VLSI electronic technologies. The course will focus on new nano-scale electronic device technologies. A background in science is a desirable prerequisitite.
TUITION: US$1900.00
REGISTRATION: Open
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COURSE DETAILS:
Class 1: Topics to be covered are:
- a review of the understanding of the energy band structure and electronic transport phenomenon that dominates nanoscale and heterojunction systems, including free electron theory, band structures, carrier concentrations, impurities and excitons, carrier transport, band offsets and band gap engineering, and the properties of common compound semiconductors used for low dimensional systems
Class 2: Topics to be covered are:
- the material synthesis and properties of common compound semiconductors that comprise heterojunction and low dimensional systems, including crystal growth (with an emphasis on MBE and MOCVD), analytical techniques (RHEED, LEED. SEM, STM, AFM, XPS, Auger, SIMS, RBS), artificially structured materials (superlattices and quantum wells), and other low-dimensional synthesis methods such as VLS nanowires and TOPO and self-assembled quantum dots
- semiconductor devices, with the goal to understand the devices that utilize heterojunctions, such as HEMTs, semiconductor heterojunction lasers, quantum well lasers / photodetectors / photoconductors, and quantum well resonant tunneling devices
Class 3: Topics to be covered are:
- the material synthesis and properties of alternative low dimensional and nanoscale materials and synthesis methods, such as carbon nanotubes, VLS nanowires, TOPO and self-assembled quantum dots, and self-assembly materials
- mesoscopic and low dimensional devices, and their applications
- he limits on scaling devices, and future device technologies