Lectures

Electronic Lectures

• Lecture 1: What is nanophysics: Introduction to course topics [PDF]
• Lecture 10: Graphene nanoribbons [PDF]
• Lecture 11: Carbon nanotubes [PDF]
• Lecture 16: Quantum Hall effect [PDF]

Blackboard lectures

• Lecture 2: Survey of quantum statistical tools
  • References: Datta Ch. 4
• Lecture 3: From atoms to one-dimensional nanowires
  • References: Datta Ch. 5
• Lecture 4: Landauer formula for 1D nanowires
• Lecture 5: Band structure of graphene
• Lecture 6: Introduction to Green functions in quantum physics and application to density of states
• Lecture 7: Introduction to DFT
• Lecture 8: Heterojunctions, interfaces, and band bending
• Lecture 9: Two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures
• Lecture 10: Split gates shaping of 2DEG and quantum nanowires
• Lecture 11: Semislassical transport
• Lecture 13: Drif-diffusion approach to magnetic nanostructure
• Lecture 14: Landauer-Buttiker scattering approach to quantum transport
• Lecture 15: Interference effects: double barrier junction, Aharonov-Bohm ring, localization