Thermal Transport Across Interfaces

23 Aug 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Timothy S Fisher

These lectures provide a theoretical development of the transport of thermal energy by conduction in nanomaterials, in which material interfaces typically dominate transport. The physical nature of …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11876

Solar Cell Fundamentals

19 Aug 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom, J. L. Gray, Muhammad A. Alam

This set of five tutorials is an introduction to solar cell technology fundamentals.

http://nanohub.org/resources/11888

Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications

28 Jul 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Mark Lundstrom

These lectures are an introduction to near-equilibrium carrier transport using a novel, bottom up approach as developed by Supriyo Datta. This approach is more rigorous than the Drude approach - …

http://nanohub.org/resources/11763

Colloquium on Graphene Physics and Devices

22 Sep 2009 | Courses | Contributor(s): Joerg Appenzeller, Supriyo Datta, Mark Lundstrom

This short course introduces students to graphene as a fascinating research topic as well as to develop their skill in problem solving using the tools and techniques of electronics from the bottom up.

http://nanohub.org/resources/7180

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/7168

Percolation Theory

03 Nov 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Muhammad Alam

The electronic devices these days have become so small that the number of dopant atoms in the channel of a MOFET transistor, the number of oxide atoms in its gate dielectric, the number silicon- or …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5660

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 …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5306

Nanoelectronics and the Meaning of Resistance

20 Aug 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

The purpose of this series of lectures is to introduce the "bottom-up" approach to nanoelectronics using concrete examples. No prior knowledge of quantum mechanics or statistical mechanics is …

http://nanohub.org/resources/5279