Introduction: Nanoelectronics and the meaning of resistance

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

This lecture provides a brief overview of the five-day short course whose purpose is to introduce a unified viewpoint for a wide variety of nanoscale electronic devices of great interest for all …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5210

Lecture 1A: What and where is the resistance?

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To introduce a simple quantitative model that highlights the essential parameters that determine electrical conduction: the density of states in the channel, D and the rates at which …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5211

Lecture 1B: What and where is the resistance?

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To introduce a simple quantitative model that highlights the essential parameters that determine electrical conduction: the density of states in the channel, D and the rates at which …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5248

Lecture 2A: Quantum Transport

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To extend the simple model from Lectures 1 into the full-fledged Non-equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) – Landauer model by introducing a spatial grid of N points and turning numbers …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5263

Lecture 2B: Quantum Transport

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To extend the simple model from Lectures 1 into the full-fledged Non-equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) – Landauer model by introducing a spatial grid of N points and turning numbers …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5268

Lecture 3A: Spin Transport

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To extend the model from Lectures 1 and 2 to include electron spin. Every electron is an elementary “magnet” with two states having opposite magnetic moments. Usually this has no major …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5269

Lecture 3B: Spin Transport

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To extend the model from Lectures 1 and 2 to include electron spin. Every electron is an elementary “magnet” with two states having opposite magnetic moments. Usually this has no major …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5270

Lecture 4B: Energy Exchange and Maxwell’s Demon

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To incorporate distributed energy exchange processes into the previous models from lectures 1 through 3 which are based on a “Landauer-like picture” where the Joule heating associated …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5272

Lecture 5A: Correlations and Entanglement

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To relate the one-electron picture used throughout these lectures to the more general but less tractable many-particle picture that underlies it. We introduce this new viewpoint using the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5273

Lecture 5B: Correlations and Entanglement

20 Aug 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Objective: To relate the one-electron picture used throughout these lectures to the more general but less tractable many-particle picture that underlies it. We introduce this new viewpoint using the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5274

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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/5279

ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors

16 Jul 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

One-stop-shop for teaching semiconductor device education

https://nanohub.org/resources/abacus

Finite Height Quantum Well: an Exercise for Band Structure

31 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry

Use the Resonant Tunneling Diodes simulation tool on nanoHUB to explore the effects of finite height quantum wells. Looking at a 2 barrier device, 300 K, no bias, other standard variables, and 3 nm …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3949

Electron-Phonon and Electron-Electron Interactions in Quantum Transport

14 Jan 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this work is to shed light on electron transport through sub-micron semi-conductor structures, where electronic state quantization, electron-electron interactions and electron-phonon …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3831

Engineering at the nanometer scale: Is it a new material or a new device?

06 Nov 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This seminar will overview NEMO 3D simulation capabilities and its deployment on the nanoHUB as well as an overview of the nanoHUB impact on the community.

https://nanohub.org/resources/3504

Quantum Ballistic Transport in Semiconductor Heterostructures

27 Aug 2007 | Publications | Contributor(s): Michael McLennan

The development of epitaxial growth techniques has sparked a growing interest in an entirely quantum mechanical description of carrier transport. Fabrication methods, such as molecular beam epitaxy …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3086

Orbital Mediated Tunneling in a New Unimolecular Rectifier

25 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert Metzger, NCN SLC@Northwestern

In 1997 we showed that hexadecylquinolinium tricyanoquinodimethanide is a unimolecular rectifier, by scanning tunneling microscopy and also as a Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayer, sandwiched between …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2748

Pan American Advanced Study Institute Lectures: Nanodevices and Maxwell’s Demon

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon This is a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2758

PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 2

14 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures. This is part 2 of a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 of Concepts of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2784

PASI Lecture: Nanodevices and Maxwell's Demon, Part 1

13 Jun 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

Pan American Advanced Study Institute (PASI) Lectures. This is part 1 of a video taped set of two one-hour live lectures covering roughly the same material as Lectures 1-3 of Concepts of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2783