Resonant Tunneling Diodes: an Exercise

06 Jan 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): H.-S. Philip Wong

This homework assignment was created by H.-S. Philip Wong for EE 218 "Introduction to Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology" (Stanford University). It includes a couple of simple "warm up" exercises and two design problems, intended to teach students the electronic properties of resonant tunneling …

Homework for PN Junctions: Depletion Approximation (ECE 305)

06 Jan 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, David B. Janes

This homework assignment is part of ECE 305 "Semiconductor Device Fundamentals" (Purdue University). It contains 7 problems which lead students through a comparison of the depletion approximation and the exact analysis of a PN junction diode.

Homework for Monte Carlo Method: High field transport in Bulk Si

06 Jan 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

This homework assignment is part of ECE 656 "Electronic Transport in Semiconductors" (Purdue University). It contains 10 problems which lead students through the simulation of high-field transport in bulk silicon.

Homework for PN Junctions: Depletion Approximation (ECE 606)

09 Jan 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

This homework assignment is part of ECE 606 "Solid State Devices" (Purdue University). It contains 5 problems which lead students through a comparison of the depletion approximation and an exact solution of PN junction diodes. Students compute the exact solution by using the PN Junction Lab …

Homework for Circuit Simulation: ECE 255

08 Jan 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerold Neudeck

This collection of homeworks is used in ECE 255 "Introduction to Electronic Analysis and Design" (Purdue University). Students do their work, or sometimes check their work, by using the Spice 3F4 simulator on the nanoHUB.

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Lab Exercise 1

08 Feb 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Yang Liu

Companion exercises for "Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET".

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)

14 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David Echevarria Torres

The XPS (X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) it is also known as ESCA (Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis). This technique is based on the theory of the photoelectric effect that was developed by Einstein, yet it was Dr. Siegbahn and his research group who developed the XPS technique. The …

Molecular Orbital Theory

18 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Luis Emmanuel Bonilla

This is the seventh contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006. Luis Bonilla and Abel Perez have designed a presentation on molecular orbital theory for high school students.Abel Perez: I obtained my BS at Instituto …

Nanotechnology and Visible Light

19 Dec 2006 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Raymond Serrano

This submission is an undergraduate project by Raymond Serrano, a chemistry student at UTEP. Raymond has been a nanoHUB student for one year. In addition to being factor of scale, nanoscience is also defined by the changes in the physical and chemical properties the nanoparticles. This …

Homework Exercise on Fermi-Dirac and Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions

24 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

The tutorial questions based on Carrier Statistics Lab v1.0 available online at Carrier Statistics Lab. Students are asked to explore the differences between Fermi-Dirac and Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions, compute electron and hole concentrations, study temperature dependences, and study …