Near-Equilibrium Transport

Fundamentals and Applications

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.

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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

Readership: Students and professionals in physics and engineering.
Key Features:

• We take a unique approach that is more physically insightful, less mathematically involved, and that works for nano-devices as well as for micro and macro devices
• The lectures are designed from the outset to be complemented by an extensive set of online resources
• The lectures treat a traditional topic in the context of cutting-edge research, such an nanotransistors and graphene

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