Instructor: M. P. Anantram (Anant)
anant@uw.edu
Phone: 206-221-5162
Please feel free to contact the instructor with any questions.
Motivation for course:
The feature size in transistors called the channel length has decreased by about
two orders of magnitude in the last thirty plus years. The channel length is less
than 50 nm in commercially available devices today. The Semiconductor Industry
Association expects the channel length to decrease to 10 nm (which is less than
75 atoms long) in the next couple of decades. Quantum mechanical devices with
nanoscale feature sizes such as resonant tunneling diodes and quantum
cascase lasers are being used in applications.
This course deals with the knowledge base to explore nanoelectronic devices
that include the transistor and beyond. This course will focus on both
fundamentals and their applications. The concepts learnt should be beneficial to
students entering both graduate school in EE, Physics, Chemistry and Materials
Science, and industry.
This course is open to EE, ME, MSE and Physics majors.
OptionalText book:
Quantum Transport, Atom to Transistor
Supriyo Datta
Cambridge University Press
Year 2005
ISBN-13 978-0-521-63145-7
