Nanoelectronics
Nanoelectronics is core subject area and ties directly to fabrication training.
General information:
- Nanoelectronics module will be available in second semester 2012/2013 academic year.
- Host Institution: Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork
- Delivery mode:
- for Cork located students: on-site lectures in Tyndall National Institute combined with 2 tutorial sessions.
- for students from other locations: live web streaming using Audio-Visual facility, 1.5 hour lectures per week in real time with recordings and other relevant materials available via ICGEE VLE
Course content:
- From microelectronics to Nanoelectronics, challenges and objectives and overview/examples of measured effects;
- Primary quantum mechanics; Top-down nanofabrication:CMOS scaling, multi-gate transistors, junctionless transistors;
- Electronic structure of confined systems: appplication to nanoscale structures (e.g. Si nanowires, graphene, nanotubes);
- Bottom-up synthesis, directed assembly and electrical contacting of nanoscale building blocks:nanowires, nanotubes, graphene, nanocrystals;
- Quantum transport: elementary theory and effects (e.g. conductance quantisation and fluctuations, coherent and single-electron tunnelling);
- Principles of nanoelectronic devices (e.g. multigate FET, Junctionless FET, SET);
- Device operation and performance (benchmarking bottom-up vs top-down)
Lecturers: Dr. Giorgos Fagas
Tyndall National Institute
University College Cork
Dr. Giorgos Fagas has a PhD in Physics, computational condensed matter, and is a staff researcher at the Electronics Theory Group, having previously been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. His expertise is in transport and quantum effects in nanomaterials and low dimensional structures and has been developing simulation tools that constitute part of Tyndall’s IP portfolio on software. He has over 30 publications and 10 invited contributions at international conferences and edited a reference book on molecular electronics. He is currently coordinator of the EU FP7 project SiNAPS (Semiconductor Nanowire Platform for Autonomous Sensors) and co-PI of the Science Foundation Principal Investigator Award on “Nanowire Simulation for Technology Design”.
Specialties: electronic transport in nanomaterials and low-dimensional structures, molecular electronics, organic materials, disordered systems, thermal conductance and lattice dynamics, device simulations, atomic-scale modelling, TCAD.
List of Journal & Conference Publications
Lecturers: Dr. Aidan Quinn
Tyndall National Institute
University College Cork
Dr. Aidan Quinn is Head of the Nanotechnology Group at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland. The research programme of his group currently includes application of molecular self-assembly to the fabrication of nanoscale sensing and signal processing devices with novel (opto)-electronic functionality, development of novel graphene devices and investigation of top-down fabricated semiconductor nanowires. He lectures (part-time) to undergraduates and postgraduates in the Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Physics departments at UCC on Nanotechnology (UE6007), Nanoelectronics (UE6005) and Computational Physics (PY2105).
Aidan is the Co-ordinator of the FP7 NMP project FUNMOL, which focuses on development of novel nanocrystal-molecule assemblies for nanoelectronics, printable electronics and sensing. Aidan has participated in the Irish Government Higher Education Authority Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions Cycles 1, 3 and 4 Initiatives and is a co-investigator in the FORME Strategic Research Cluster. He is a member of the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society. He is a reviewer for several leading nanoscience journals, including Advanced Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and Small.
