Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2501922 Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | OT | 4 | 1 |
Basic knowledge of Quantum Mechanics, electronic devices and solid state physics is required.
1. Electronic transport and simulation of electronic devices
Foundations of semiconductor devices. Effective mass equation. Boltzmann transport equation. Monte Carlo simulation of transport in devices.
2. Charge based nanoelectronic devices
The MOS transistor. Evolution of semiconductor device technology (ITRS and IRDS). Memories. Quantum effect devices (RTD, point contacts). Single electron devices. Advanced field effect devices. Molecular electronics.
3. Photonic and optoelectronic devices
Isomorphism between Maxwell and Schrödinger equations. Photonic crystals, defects, waveguides and Anderson localization. Optical transitions and selection rules in semiconductors. Lasers basead in nanostructures (quantum well and dot, VCSELs, quantum cascade...). Entangled photons for quantum cryptography. Nanophotonics and the market.
4. Spin based nanoelectronic devices
Dynamics of single spins and spins in solids. Spin valves and giant magnetoresistance. Hard drive read heads, circuit couplers. Spin-transfer torque. Magnetic RAM memories (MRAMs). Spin injection into semiconductors. Spin relaxation mechanisms in semiconductors. Spin transistors. Spin based quantum computing.
Formation will be based on magistral lectures complemented with practical classroom and laboratory sessions. There will be autonomous activities including problem solving and the critical reading of texts.
Magistral lectures and problem and lab sessions may be online depending on the evolution of the health situation.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classroom practical sessions | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 7, 5, 3, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 28, 6 |
Laboratory sessions | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 2, 7, 4, 3, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 16, 28, 30, 6 |
Magistral lectures | 30 | 1.2 | 5, 10, 8, 11, 12, 13, 9, 14, 17, 25, 26, 27 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Problem set solving and lab reports | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 19, 7, 4, 5, 3, 23, 20, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 16, 29, 28, 6 |
Study of theoretical foudations | 48 | 1.92 | 1, 19, 10, 8, 11, 12, 13, 9, 14, 23, 20, 17, 18, 21, 22, 26, 27 |
The complention of the lab sessions is compulsory, and students must pass the lab sessions separately.
In order to pass the course a minimum grade of 4 in the synthesis test is required. This can be obtained:
a) When the mean of the synthesis partial tests reaches a 4, and none of the partial tests has a qualification below 2.
b) When the synthesis retake test reaches the minimum of 4.
The student must have sat in the two partial synthesis tests and passed the lab sessions in order to be allowed to retake the synthesis test.
"Matrícula d'honor" will be awarded with preferent attention to the results of the synthesis partial tests over the second chance synthesis test. Sitting on the second chance synthesis test to obtain a better grade is possible, but in case the grade of that test is lower than the grade of the mean of the partial tests, the final synthesis grade will be the mean between the average of the partial test and the grade of the second chance synthesis test.
Synthesis tests may be substituted by additional problem sets and independent work if authorities determine that on site exams are not permitted.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Laboratory sessions | 25% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 19, 7, 4, 3, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 16, 28, 30, 6 |
Problem sets and independent work | 20% | 0 | 0 | 7, 5, 23, 20, 18, 21, 22, 26, 29, 28, 30 |
Synthesis test | 55% | 4 | 0.16 | 5, 3, 10, 8, 11, 12, 13, 9, 14, 15, 17, 26, 27, 28 |
S. V. Gaponenko
Introduction to Nanophotonics
Cambridge University Press (2010)
P.N. Prasad
Nanophotonics
Wiley (2004)
Y. Tsividis and C. McAndrew
Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor
Oxford University Press (2010)
S.M Sze and K.K. Ng
Physics of Semiconductor Devices
Wiley (2007)
J. Burghartz
Guide to State-of-the-Art Electron Devices
Wiley (2013)
R. Waser
Nanoelectronics and Information Technology
Wiley (2005)
S. Bandyopadhyay and M. Cahay
Introduction to spintronics
CRC Press (2008)
M. Lundstrom
Fundamentals of carrier transport
Cambridge University Press (2009)
One of the labs will make use of Matlab/Octave.