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ECE 695A Reliability Physics of Nanotransistors
17 Jan 2013 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam
This course will focus on the physics of reliability of small semiconductor devices. In traditional courses on device physics, the students learn how to compute current through a device when a voltage is applied.
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NEMO5 Tutorials (2012 Summer School)
19 Jul 2012 | Courses | Contributor(s): James Fonseca, Tillmann Christoph Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Jean Michel D Sellier, Parijat Sengupta, Junzhe Geng, Mehdi Salmani Jelodar, Seung Hyun Park, Gerhard Klimeck
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ECE 656 Lecture 33: Heterostructures
21 Feb 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
Outline:
Review of L31
Carrier temperature and heat flux
Heterostructures
Summary
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Inelastic Scattering in NEGF: Matlab Implementation and Exercises
02 Jan 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Samiran Ganguly, Supriyo Datta
A set of Matlab scripts has been developed illustrating the treatment of inelastic scattering in non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) based quantum transport models. The first script highlights the core principles using a simple conductor described by a (2x2) Hamiltonian matrix, while the second …
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Illinois ECE 398 Lecture 6: Heterostructure Energy Bands & Quantum Wells
09 Nov 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kent D Choquette
[Prof. Choquette's] Photonic device research group is involved in the study of semiconductor photonic and optoelectronic device physics, fabrication technologies, and systems with a strong emphasis on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). Photonic devices are key components for the …
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Nanotechnology Activities in Colombia: A Perspective From the Excellence Center for Novel Materials
11 Oct 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Pedro Antonio Prieto
I will present the current state of R & D in the fields of condensed matter, novel materials, and nanotechnology in Colombia. I will initially consider Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to then visualize individual developments, as well as those for the region as a whole in these fields of …
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Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 25b: NEMO1D - Hole Bandstructure in Quantum Wells and Hole Transport in RTDs
09 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
Heterostructures such as resonant tunneling diodes, quantum well photodetectors and lasers, and cascade lasers break the symmetry of the crystalline lattice. Such break in lattice symmetry causes a strong interaction of heavy-, light- and split-off hole bands. The bandstructure of holes and the …
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Nanoelectronic Modeling: From Quantum Mechanics and Atoms to Realistic Devices
25 Jan 2010 | Courses | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
The goal of this series of lectures is to explain the critical concepts in the understanding of the state-of-the-art modeling of nanoelectronic devices such as resonant tunneling diodes, quantum wells, quantum dots, nanowires, and ultra-scaled transistors. Three fundamental concepts critical to …
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Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability
17 Sep 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam
In this series of lectures introduces a simple theoretical framework for treating randomness and variability in emerging nanostructured electronic devices for wide ranging applications – all within an unified framework of spatial and temporal percolation. The problems considered involve …
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ECET 499N: Introduction to Nanotechnology
30 Mar 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Helen McNally
An introduction to the emerging area of nanotechnology will be studied. The primary focus will be on the technologies of nanotechnology, with specific emphasis on electronics and electrical measurements. Instruments and techniques used in nanotechnology will be described and explored which …
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ECE 612 Lecture 27: Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
15 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
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ECE 612 Lecture 26: Heterostructure FETs
10 Dec 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
Outline:
1) Introduction,
2) Heterojunction review,
3) Modulation doping,
4) I-V characteristics,
5) Device Structure / Materials,
6) Summary.
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ECE 495N: Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics
28 Aug 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta
Fall 2008
This is a newly produced version of the course that was
formerly available.
We would greatly appreciate your feedback regarding the new format and contents.
Objective:
To convey the basic concepts of nanoelectronics to electrical
engineering students with no background in …
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Physics of Nanoscale MOSFETs
26 Aug 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
Transistor scaling has pushed channel lengths to the nanometer regime where traditional approaches to MOSFET device physics are less and less suitable This short course describes a way of understanding MOSFETs that is much more suitable than traditional approaches when the channel lengths are of …
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Illinois ECE 440: Solid State Electronic Devices
18 Aug 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Eric Pop
The goals of this course are to give the student an understanding of the elements of
semiconductor physics and principles of semiconductor devices that
(a) constitute the
foundation required for an electrical engineering major to take
follow-on courses, and
(b) represent …
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recursive algorithm for NEGF in Matlab
13 Nov 2006 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Dmitri Nikonov, Siyu Koswatta
This zip-archive contains two Matlab functions for the recursive solution of the partial matrix inversion and partial 3-matrix multiplication used in the non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method.
recuresealg3d.m
- works for 3-diagonal matrices
recuresealgblock3d.m
- works for …
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A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach
14 Jun 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
A Top-Down Introduction to the NEGF Approach
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Ballistic Nanotransistors
07 Dec 2005 | Learning Modules | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom
This learning module is an introduction to the theory ballistic nanotransistors. No transistor is fully ballistic, but analyzing nanotransistors by neglecting scattering processes provides new insights into the performance and limits of nanoscale MOSFETs. This learning module introduces the …
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MATLAB Scripts for "Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor"
15 Mar 2005 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta
Tinker with quantum transport models! Download the MATLAB scripts used to demonstrate the physics described in Supriyo Datta's book Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor. These simple models are less than a page of code, and yet they reproduce much of the fundamental physics observed in experiments.
