General Information details will be available on the web page

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General Information (details will be available on
the web page) Lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays
900-1020 am in 158 Loomis Lab. Instructor Prof
. Alexey Bezryadin e-mail bezryadi_at_uiuc.edu phone
333-9580 office 127 Loomis Laboratory office
hour Monday 530-630 pm or by
appointment Teaching Assistant Ulas Coskun
e-mail ucoskun_at_mail.physics.uiuc.edu Phone
244-2804 office 105 or 169 Lommis Lab
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Reference Textbooks (On reserve at the Physics
Library) Nanoelectronics and Mesoscopic
physics D.K. Ferry and S.M. Goodnick.
Transport in Nanostructures. C. Harmus.
Mesoscopic Physics. (Not available for purchase,
but a copy of it is on reserve in the Physics
Library) S. Datta. Electronic Transport in
Mesoscopic Systems. Y. Imry. Introduction to
Mesoscopic Physics. H. Grabert and M. H. Devoret,
Single Charge Tunneling. L. L. Shon, G. Schön, L.
P. Kouwenhoven, Mesoscopic electron
transport General solid state H. Ibach and H.
Luth. Solid State Physics, an Introduction to
Theory and Experiment. M. P. Marder. Condensed
Matter Physics. C. Kittel. Introduction to Solid
State Physics. P.M. Chaikin and M. Lubensky.
Condensed Matter Physics. W. Harrison. Solid
State Theory.
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Grading Class participation 10 Weekly
homeworks or one- or two-page summaries
40 Final term paper and presentation 50 There
will be no exam in the course! Instead there will
be a term paper and in-class presentation.
Other info -To access the material for the
course you have to register or officially
audit. -Consider attending the Center for
Nanoscale Science and Technology biweekly
seminars. (The schedule will be posted on the web
page)
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Homework A report OR a homework
assignment Each week write a report on a topic
you choose from the list of paper given on the
web page of the course (or do the homework given
in the class). -The report should be one or two
pages long. -The report should be typed, not
hand-written. -The first two reports will be
considered 'warm-ups', and graded as pass/fail.
-Future assignments will be graded more
critically. -In the report answer the following
questions in the first paragraph of your
assignment What is the main objective of this
paper? Why is this objective interesting and
important? In the next paragraph, address what
new results/ techniques were discovered or
invented by this work. What is the most logical
continuation of the research. You own thoughts, a
critical analysis and conclusions should be
present in the report. A simple summary of the
results is not good enough. -Homework is due
in-class on Tuesday. -The course grade book will
be accessible online.
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Homework Review articles are good for getting
an overview of a particular field, and are
excellent starting points for your term papers.
However, the broad scope of such papers is very
difficult to handle in such short assignments.
You will find more focused papers tend to make
for easier write-ups.
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• Term Paper
• 1. Submit a one-paragraph proposal for the
  subject of your term paper no later than Tuesday,
  March 1. (Include your email.)2. Discuss with me
  your proposal.3. Term papers are 10 pages in
  length maximum.  Line spacing is
  space-and-a-half, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. 
  Include a list of references (not included in the
  10 page limit).  Attach figures separately, one
  per page, complete with caption and source (if
  the figure is borrowed).  Figures do not count
  towards the 10 page limit.4. You will give an
  oral presentations, based on your term paper, in
  the last class session exact date(s) will be
  determined later. Presentations will be 10
  minutes long (plus 3-5 min. of questions).  As a
  general guideline, 10 minute talks usually
  consist of 8-12 slides. You can print slides or
  make a PowerPoint presentation (Windows
  compatible file will be required).6. Both the
  Term Paper and the Oral Presentation need to be
  submitted in electronic format by the day of the
  final (date will be given later).  Term Papers
  can be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.  Oral
  Presentations should be in Microsoft PowerPoint
  or PDF.  Send them by e-mail to me.

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Course Outline Introduction Why nanoscience?
What are the motivations? What are its goals and
promises? (today) Basic methods of making
nanoscale structures Relevant material from
quantum mechanics and solid state physics
Concepts of electron transport in nanoscale
structures Electronic devices based on
individual molecules superconducting
nanodevices Nanoscale imaging scanning probe
microscopy Nanomagentism spintronics (ideas
tools) Nano-bio related topics
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Additional info

• Access to the articles through web site best
  done through uiuc network (otherwise you can not
  access the journals)
• Printer available in the library (for a fee)
• First weekly assignment due next week.
• First one is a trial run, feedback to you.
• Typed, include title/your name, not more than
  one or two pages
• For help on papers try the office hours.

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Idea of size scales
hair
blood cell
ant
Intel smallest transistor
Molecules nanotubes, DNA
Visible light wavelength
http//www.intel.com/technology/itj/2002/volume06i
ssue02/art01_130nmlogic/p04_features.htm
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Introduction

• Nanotechnology is the science of the small.
• Nano is Greek for dwarf, and nanoscience deals
  with the study of artificial structures with
  dimensions comparable to dimensions of single
  molecules. Typical dimensions of such systems are
  1-100 nanometers
• One nanometer is a billionths of a meter or 10-9
  m

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• Nanoscience technology whats the hype about?
• Driving force Shrinking electronics circuits
  faster cheaper
• New science phenomena beyond those found in
  macroscopic systems
• Example Schrödinger cats made possible
• Application small structure or even single
  molecules serve as units for the information
  processing
• Engineering new materials coupled nanosystems
  making new composite materials
• New Tools Examining matter on a finer scale
  with nanoscale devices
• (e.g. single electron transistors)
• Intersection between physics, chemistry, and
  biology self-replicating systems
• Medicine drug delivery and internal robots
• Interdisciplinary applications sensor capable
  of detecting single molecules

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Computer industry-the primary driving force for
nanotechnology Transistor gate dimensions have
been reduced 200X during the past 30 years (from
10µm in the 1970s to a present-day size of 60
nm). The transistor and feature size scaling have
enabled microprocessor performance to increase
exponentially with transistor density and
microprocessor clock frequency doubling every two
years. Intel's latest 130nm CMOS logic technology
used to make high-performance microprocessors
gt3GHz
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History of the transistor Transistors
three-terminal device with gain that started the
information age Invented at Bell Labs in
1947 (Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley) Voltage (or
current) at a third a gate terminal is used to
control the current between two other terminals
the source and the drain Two types bipolar
junction field effect devices
Metal-Oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor
(MOSFET) has been by far the most common type of
transistor in modern microelectronics
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field effect transistor Built on doped Si
substrate (otherwise too insulating) Insulating
oxide barrier gate Field from the gate
inversion layer formed Current flows between
source drain MOSFET a popular Device scaling
down has good cost-to-performance ratio A great
deal of investment in this technology has kept it
going for many decade!
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