Subject Code:PH7L008 Subject Name:Nanostructure and Quantum Devices L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Semiconductor Heterostructure, Nano-CMOS devices, Low-dimensional semiconductor structures, Semiconductor superlattices and miniband, Optical properties of nanostructures, Resonant tunneling phenomena, Coulomb blockade and quantum transport. Metallic superlattices, self-assembling nanostructures, Nanofabrication, probing of nanostructures, Quantum devices: Single electron devices, Quantum cascade Lasers, Ultra-fast switching devices, high density memories, giant magneto resistance and Josephson devices, long wavelength IR detector, photonic integrated circuits.
Text Books /Reference Books:
  1. Sze S. M., Physics of Semiconductor Devices,Wiley Eastern Limited.
  2. Pankove Jacques I., Optical Process in Semiconductor, Dover Publications, Inc.
  3. Jain K. P., Physics of Semiconductor Nanostructures, Narosa Publishing House.
  4. Gaponenko S. V., Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals, Cambridge University Press.
  5. Nalwa H. S., Handbook of Nanostructured Material and Nanotechnology, Academic Press.
  6. Sattler K., Cluster assembled Materials, Trans Tech Publication Limited, CRC Press.
  7. Ying Jackie, Nanostructure Material, Academic Press.
  8. Koch C. C., Nanostructure Material, processing, properties and application,William Andrew Publishing.
  9. Davies J. H., The Physics of Low dimensional Semiconductor, Cambridge University Press.