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* Lecture 3: From atoms to one-dimensional nanowires | * Lecture 3: From atoms to one-dimensional nanowires | ||
**References: Datta Ch. 3 and 5 | **References: Datta Ch. 3 and 5 | ||
**[http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BondingAndAntibondingMolecularOrbitals/ Visualization of bonding and antibonding orbitals using Mathematica] | **[http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/BondingAndAntibondingMolecularOrbitals/ Visualization of bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals using Mathematica] | ||
**[http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/WannierRepresentationForTightBindingHamiltonianOfAPeriodicCh/ Visualization of the tight-binding Hamiltonian of a nanowire with N atoms using Mathematica] | **[http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/WannierRepresentationForTightBindingHamiltonianOfAPeriodicCh/ Visualization of the tight-binding Hamiltonian of a nanowire with N atoms using Mathematica] | ||
**[[Discretization of 1D Hamiltonian]] | **[[Discretization of 1D Hamiltonian]] | ||
Revision as of 23:03, 21 September 2009
- Lecture 1: What is nanophysics: Introduction to course topics
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- Lecture 2: Survey of quantum statistical tools
- References: Datta Ch. 4
- Key equations of Lecture 2
- Lecture 3: From atoms to one-dimensional nanowires
- Lecture 4: Landauer formula for 1D nanowires
- Lecture 5: Band structure of graphene
- Lecture 6: Introduction to DFT
- References: K. Capelle, A bird's-eye view of density-functional theory, arXiv:cond-mat/0211443
- Lecture 7: Heterojunctions, interfaces and band bending
- Lecture 8: Two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures
- Lecture 9: Split gates shaping of 2DEG and subband structure of quantum nanowires
- References: Datta Ch. 6
- Lecture 10: Landauer-Buttiker scattering approach to quantum transport and application to quasi-1D nanowires
- Lecture 11: Graphene nanoribbons
- Lecture 12: Carbon nanotubes
- Lecture 13: Semislassical transport
- References:
- Lecture 14: Drift-diffusion approach to ferromagnet-normal-metal nanostructures
- Lecture 15: Quantum interference effects in transport: double barrier junction, Aharonov-Bohm ring, localization
- Lecture 16: Principles of STM and AFM operation
- Lecture 17: Quantum Hall effect
- Lecture 18: Introduction to Green functions in quantum physics and application to density of states calculations
- Lecture 19: Non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGF) for coherent transport
- References: Datta Ch. 9
- Lecture 20: NEGF in the presence of dephasing
- References: Datta Ch. 10
- Lecture 21: NEGF+DFT and application to molecular electronics
- Lecture 22: Application of NEGF+DFT to magnetic tunnel junctions
- Lecture 23: Coulomb blockade
