APh 180
Nanotechnology (EE/APh 180)
Nanotechnology
Winter 2015:
Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 2:30pm – 3:30pm, Annenberg
Instructor: Prof. Axel Scherer, etcher@caltech.edu, 203 Sloan Annex
Teaching Assistants: Muhammad Mujeeb-U-Rahman, mrahman@caltech.edu, 215 Sloan Annex
Office hours: by appointment.
Homeworks:
Presentations: Students may be required to give a 15 minute presentation on topics that will be discussed in class.
Notes 2015:
Notes 2014:
- Lecture 1 – 1/7 – Silicon Industry: Crystal Growth, Foundries, IC, CMOS layers
- Lecture 2 – 1/9 – Devices, quantum confined structures, transistors
- Lecture 3 – 1/14 – Continues Lecture 2, Devices, quantum wells
- Lecture 4 – 1/16 – Vacuum Technology and Heteroepitaxy
- Lecture 5 – 1/21 – Guest Lecture – Computing from silicon
- Lecture 6 – 1/23 – Guest Lecture –
- Lecture 7 – 1/28 – Vacuum Tubes, RF Power, Heteroepitaxy
- Lecture 8 – 1/30 – Display technologies, LED, LCD
- Lecture 9 – 2/4 – Optics, quantum dots
- Lecture 10 – 2/6 – More Optics, plasmonics
- Lecture 11 – 2/11 -Commercialization of Nanotechnologies
- Lecture 12 – 2/13 – Electron Microscopy
- Lecture 13 – 2/18 – Surface Imaging
- Lecture 14 – 2/20 – Magnetic Media
- Lecture 15 – 2/25 – Nanotechnology for Neuroscience
- Lecture 16 – 2/27 – Lab on a Chip / Microfluidics
- Lecture 17 – 3/4 – Lab on a Chip / Lab in the Body
- Lecture 18 – 3/6 –
Notes 2013:
- Lecture 1 – Silicon industry, seminconductor physics
- Lecture 2 – Device Physics (diodes, transistors)
- Lecture 3 – Devices Physics (transistors, photovoltaics)
- Lecture 4 – Lithography, Deposition, Etching
- Lecture 5 – Optics (Waveguides, fibers, photonic crystals)
- Lecture 6 – Silicon Nanopillars
- Lecture 7 – Surface Imaging
- Lecture 8 – Magnetic Media
- Lecture 9 – Electron Microscopy
Videos:
- 1/7/14 – Silicon Crystal Growth (Youtube)
From Sand to Silicon – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5paWn7bFg4
Photolithography – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x3Lh1ZfggM
The Fabrication of Integrated Circuits (Youtube)
Semiconductor Technology at TSMC (Youtube)
The Making of a Chip with 22nm-3D Transistors (Youtube)
Reference books (Need not be purchased):
– Solid State Electronic Devices; B. G. Streetman, S. Banerjee; Prentice-Hall, 5th ed.
– Physics of Semiconductor Devices; Jean-Pierre Colinge, Springer 2002.
Supplementary material:
– Useful links at Prof. Y. C. Tai’s EE40 class.
– Semiconductor physics, as taught by Britney Spears!
– Online notes by B V Zeghbroeck.