Course

Unit I

Introduction to semiconductors and properties (12 lectures)

Review of semiconductors, low dimensional semiconductors and materials, transport in nanostructures, Electron flow in solids, diffusive and ballistic electron transport, Coulomb blockade, hall-effect and quantum hall-effect, optical and electro-optic processes in heterostructures.

Unit II

Semiconductor devices (15 lectures)

Nanoelectronic devices: heterojunction bipolar transistor, hot electron transistors, single electron transistors, resonant tunnelling transistors, low dimensional semiconductor lasers: quantum-well lasers, quantum dot lasers, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, low dimensional photodetectors and modulators.

Unit III

Advanced materials for nanoelectronics and optoelectronics (5 lectures)

2D materials (Graphene QDs, TMDs, MXenes… etc.) electronic, photonics and optoelectronics applications.

Unit IV

Spintronics and devices (8 lectures)

Spintronics: GMR, TMR, spin injection and detection, magnetic tunnel junctions, dilute magnetic semiconductors and spintronic devices.

Unit V

Industry relevance analysis (5 lectures)

Industrial relevant failure analysis, metrology and device characterizations.

Pre-requisites: Basic maths, physics and chemistry

Total number of classes: 45

Course Outcomes:

• Familiarity with fundamental concepts related to material science of semiconductors.
• Get introduced crystal structures relation with fundamental aspects of atomic bonds and energy bands.
• Bulk semiconductors and their significance along with size effects and applications.
• Understand the influence of size effects on charge transport characteristics under various circumstances.
• Will be able to identify and choose suitable semiconductor nanostructures for different applications as required.
• Estimate the various physical parameters that are related to semiconductor nanostructures for example charge carrier mobility, conductivity and sheet resistance.
• Get introduced to emerging atomically thin nano-semiconductors such as 2D layered functional materials from current research literature.
• Understand the basics of spintronics and spintronic devices

TEXTBOOKS/ REFERENCES:

1. Nanotechnology for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics by Raúl José Martín-Palma, José Martínez-Duart, Fernando Agullo-Rueda, Elsevier (2006).
2. Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications by Igor Zutic, J. Fabian, and S. Das Sarma, Rev. Mod. Phys. 76, 323 (2004).