Near-Equilibrium Transport

Near-Equilibrium Transport: Fundamentals and Applications: Volume 2 (Lessons from Nanoscience: A Lecture Notes Series) by Mark Lundstrom (Author), Changwook Jeong (Author, Contributor)

These lectures are designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of carrier transport in nano-devices using a novel, “bottom up approach” that agrees with traditional methods when devices are large, but which also works for nano-devices.

The goal is to help students learn how to think about carrier transport at the nanoscale and also how the bottom up approach provides a new perspective to traditional concepts like mobility and drift-diffusion equations.

The lectures are designed for engineers and scientists and others who need a working knowledge of near-equilibrium (“low-field” or “linear”) transport. Applications of the theory and measurement considerations are also addressed. The lectures serve as a starting point to an extensive set of instructional materials available online.

Contents:

Overview
General Model for Transport
Resistance: Ballistic to Diffusive
Thermoelectric Effects: Physical Approach
Thermoelectric Effects: Mathematics
An Introduction to Scattering
Boltzmann Transport Equation
Near-equilibrium Transport: Measurements
Phonon Transport
Graphene: A Case Study

2012 | ISBN: 9814327786, 9814355801