Syllabus
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Course Code: EL 25 Course Name: Option - ii) Nano Electronics – Materials & Devices |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Overview of progress of microelectronics worldwide. International technology roadmap characteristics. CMOS scaling. Nanoscale MOSFET, FinFET, vertical MOSFETS’s limits of CMOS technology. Materials & processes for advanced sub 65nm CMOD technology. From microelectronics towards nanoelectronics. Noval approaches towards future devices. Introduction to nanotechnology and nanomaterials. Applications in different fields. Bottom up and top down approaches. |
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| 2 | Top Down Approaches: Semiconductor Low dimensional systems- Two dimensional confinement of carriers, Quantum wells, One dimensional Quantum systems; quantum wires, Zero dimensional quantum structures: Quantum Dots. Quantum devices: Resonant tunneling diode & transistor. Coulomb Blockade, Single Electron Transistor, Introduction to Spintronics, Material requirements for spintronics, Spin devices: Spin Transistor, Spin values etc. Quantum computation. |
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| 3 | Bottom up Approaches: Molecular Electronics involving single molecules as electronic devices, chemical approaches to nanostructure materials. Band structures and transport in the molecular system. Molecular switches and logic gates. Molecular interconnects. Cabon nanotubes, structures and synthesis, growth mechanism and properties, devices applications. Nanowires:synthesis and characterization. |
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| 4 | Nanofabrication: Thin film techniques, MBE, CVD, PECVD, Sol gel, Plasma arching electrodeposition, ball milling, atomic layer deposition, self-assembly, template manufacturing, spray pyrolysis. Nanomanipulation and nano lithography: E-beam and nano imprint lithography, advanced nanolithography, High resolution nanolithography, Dip-Pen lithography, AFM Lithography. |
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