ECE 5390

Quantum Transport in Electron Devices and Novel Materials

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2017-2018 Catalog.

Charge, heat, and spin transport in semiconductors, 2D crystals, and correlated oxides. Electronic gain and speed and its link to transport. Rigorous quantum transport in semiconductors, ballistic transport, quantized conductance, non-equilibrium Green's functions. Boltzmann transport equation, scattering, Fermi's golden rule, and electron-phonon interactions. Transport coefficients, thermoelectric properties.  Mobility, high-field saturation and impact ionization. Gunn and IMPATT devices. ultrafast (THz) semiconductor electronics. Tunneling transport, backward diodes, negative differential resistance. Magnetotransport/Quantum Hall effect, Berry phase, Chern numbers. Edge-state/surface transport phenomena in emerging chiral semiconductors such as TMDs, topological insulators, and correlated transport in BCS superconductivity in semiconductors such as diamond and MoS2.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECE 4070 or equivalent course in solid state physics.

When Offered Fall.

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