Nanoelectronics detail syllabus for Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17EC551), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
This course will enable students to:
- Enhance basic engineering science and technical knowledge of nanoelectronics.
- Explain basics of top-down and bottom-up fabrication process, devices and systems.
- Describe technologies involved in modern day electronic devices.
- Know various nanostructures of carbon and the nature of the carbon bond itself.
- Learn the photo physical properties of sensor used in generating a signal.
Module 1
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Module 2
Characterization: Classification, Microscopic techniques, Field ion microscopy, scanning probe techniques, diffraction techniques: bulk and surface diffraction techniques (Text 1). Inorganic semiconductor nanostructures: overview of semiconductor physics. Quantum confinement in semiconductor nanostructures: quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, super-lattices, band offsets, electronic density of states (Text 1).
Module 3
Fabrication techniques: requirements of ideal semiconductor, epitaxial growth of quantum wells, lithography and etching, cleaved-edge over growth, growth of vicinal substrates, strain induced dots and wires, electrostatically induced dots and wires, Quantum well width fluctuations, thermally annealed quantum wells, semiconductor nanocrystals, collidal quantum dots, self-assembly techniques.(Text 1). Physical processes: modulation doping, quantum hall effect, resonant tunneling, charging effects, ballistic carrier transport, Inter band absorption, intraband absorption, Light emission processes, phonon bottleneck, quantum confined stark effect, nonlinear effects, coherence and dephasing, characterization of semiconductor nanostructures: optical electrical and structural (Text 1).
Module 4
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Module 5
Nanosensors: Introduction, What is Sensor and Nanosensors?, What makes them Possible?, Order From Chaos, Characterization, Perception, Nanosensors Based On Quantum Size Effects, Electrochemical Sensors, Sensors Based On Physical Properties, Nanobiosensors, Smart dust Sensor for the future. (Text 3)
Applications: Injection lasers, quantum cascade lasers, single-photon sources, biological tagging, optical memories, coulomb blockade devices, photonic structures, QWIPs, NEMS, MEMS (Text 1).
Course Outcomes:
After studying this course, students will be able to:
- Know the principles behind Nano science engineering and Nanoelectronics.
- Know the effect of particles size on mechanical, thermal, optical and electrical properties of nanomaterials.
- Know the properties of carbon and carbon nanotubes and its applications.
- Know the properties used for sensing and the use of smart dust sensors.
- Apply the knowledge to prepare and characterize nanomaterials.
- Analyse the process flow required to fabricate state-of-the-art transistor technology.
Text Books:
- Ed Robert Kelsall, Ian Hamley, Mark Geoghegan, Nanoscale Science and Technology, John Wiley, 2007.
- Charles P Poole, Jr, Frank J Owens, Introduction to Nanotechnology, John Wiley, Copyright 2006, Reprint 2011.
- T Pradeep, Nano: The essentials-Understanding Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, TMH.
Reference Books:
Ed William A Goddard III, Donald W Brenner, Sergey E. Lyshevski, Gerald J Iafrate, Hand Book of Nanoscience Engineering and Technology, CRC press, 2003.
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