Introduction to Nanoelectronics
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this electrical engineering course on how current, voltage and resistance behave once devices shrink to the molecular scale. The material starts with quantum mechanics fundamentals: quantization, wave-particle duality, wavefunctions and the Schrodinger equation. From there it covers the electronic properties of molecules, carbon nanotubes and crystals, including how energy bands give rise to metals, insulators and semiconductors. Electron conduction is developed from ballistic transport through to a derivation of Ohm's law, followed by a comparison of ballistic and bulk MOSFET behavior. The course closes with a discussion of fundamental limits on computation. Materials include lecture notes and assignments under MIT's open license, with no instructor interaction or certificate. It suits students who already have background in electromagnetism and want the physics underlying next-generation electronic devices.