Lectures

• Lecture 1: What is nanophysics: Introduction to course topics
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• 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 calculations

• Lecture 7: Introduction to DFT
  • References: K. Capelle, A bird's-eye view of density-functional theory, arXiv:cond-mat/0211443

• Lecture 8: Heterojunctions, interfaces and band bending

• Lecture 9: Two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures

• Lecture 10: Split gates shaping of 2DEG and fabrication of quantum nanowires

• Lecture 11: Landauer-Buttiker scattering approach to quantum transport and application to quasi-1D nanowires

• Lecture 12: Graphene nanoribbons
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• Lecture 13: Carbon nanotubes
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• Lecture 12: Semislassical transport
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• Lecture 13: Drift-diffusion approach to magnetic nanostructure

• Lecture 15: Quantum interference effects in transport: double barrier junction, Aharonov-Bohm ring, localization

• Lecture 16: Quantum Hall effect
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• Lecture 17: NEGF for coherent transport
  • References: Datta Ch.

• Lecture 18: NEGF in the presence of dephasing
  • References: Datta Ch.

• Lecture 19: NEGF+DFT and application to molecular electronics

• Lecture 21: Application of NEGF+DFT to magnetic tunnel junctions

• Lecture 22: Coulomb blockade