These lectures are designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of carrier transport in nano-devices using a novel, “bottom up approach” that agrees with traditional methods when devices are large, but which also works for nano-devices. The goal is to help students learn how to think about carrier transport at the nanoscale and also how the bottom up approach provides a new perspective to traditional concepts like mobility and drift-diffusion equations. The lectures are designed for engineers and scientists and others who need a working knowledge of near-equilibrium (“low-field” or “linear”) transport. Applications of the theory and measurement considerations are also addressed. The lectures serve as a starting point to an extensive set of instructional materials available online.

The corresponding online course for this text can be found at Near-Equilibrium Transport Fundamentals and Applications.

This is a draft copy of a set of lecture notes published by World Scientific and distributed with their permission. Copyright World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.

Volumes in this series are available from World Scientific Publishing Company http://www.worldscientific.com/series/lnlns

Mark Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He was the founding director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology, which created nanoHUB.org. Lundstrom earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and 1974, respectively and joined the Purdue faculty upon completing his doctorate on the West Lafayette campus in 1980. Before attending Purdue, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation on MOS process development and manufacturing. His research at Purdue has focused on understanding electronic and thermal transport and how it plays out in semiconductor devices such as solar cells, lasers, thermoelectric devices, and bipolar, MOS, and heterostructure transistors. The development of new modeling and simulation techniques has also been part of this research. Lundstrom is a life fellow the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received several awards for his contributions to research and education and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Lundstrom, Mark S., Jeong, Changwook. Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications. (Lessons from Nanoscience: A Lecture Notes Series: Vol. 2). World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1142/7975

• Mark Lundstrom, Changwook Jeong (2022), "Near-Equilibrium Transport Fundamentals and Applications," https://nanohub.org/resources/35871.

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1. bottom up approach
2. carrier transport
3. devices
4. drift-diffusion
5. nanoelectronics
6. near equilibrium transport
7. textbook