Unit DEVICE PHYSICS
- Course
- Physics
- Study-unit Code
- A001120
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Fisica della materia
- Teacher
- Luca Gammaitoni
- Teachers
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- Luca Gammaitoni
- Hours
- 42 ore - Luca Gammaitoni
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- FIS/03
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - Introduction to device physics
- Semiconductor devices
- Heterostructures
- Quantum Technologies
- Laser
- Superconductivity
- Devices operated in the presence of large fluctuations - Reference texts
- - Nanotechnology for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, 2006, p.301. J.M. Martínez-Duart et al.
- Quantum wells, wires and dots, 2007, P. Harrison, Wiley
- Quantum transport: atom to transistor, 2005, S. Datta. Cambridge - Educational objectives
- To grasp the basic elements of the physics behind the functioning of nanotechnology devices.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lecture
- Other information
- Ask the teacher
- Learning verification modality
- Colloquium
- Extended program
- English program:
- Introduction to device physics
- Semiconductor devices
- short review of solid state and semiconductor physics.
- electrons in nanostructures: semiconductor heterojunctions, quantum wells, superlattices, etc.
- transport and optical properties of nanostructures.
- advanced semiconductor devices based on nanostructures. Transistors and lasers.
- Superconductivity
- Quantum Technologies:
quantum computing,
quantum criptography,
topological properties
- Devices operated in the presence of large fluctuations