Nanoelectronics: Physics, Materials and Devices

Chapter 1. Basics Concepts of Device Physics
a. Basics of semiconductor physics
b. p-n junction
c. Basics of carrier transport
d. Introduction to field effect transistors & MOS capacitors
e. Introduction to CMOS technology
f. Quantum mechanics and 2DEG
g. Quantum confinement, fermi level pinning & discrete DOS
h. Ballistic transport
Chapter 2. Scaling the MOSFET: Detrimental Short Channel Effects
Chapter 3. Alternate Device Architectures to Mitigate Challenges
a. Silicon on insulator (SOI) and silicon on nothing concepts
b. Non-uniform doping and pocket engineering, halo doping & reverse SCEs
c. Gate material engineering: Dual material gate (DMG), triple material gate (TMG)
d. Use of high-K dielectric to reduce gate tunneling
e. Underlap and spacer engineering
Chapter 4. Emerging FET Architectures
a. Evolution of multiple gate MOSFET structure
b. Cylindrical gate MOSFET and vertical channel MOSFET
c. Ultra-thin body concept and UTB SOI MOSFET
d. Recent trends in FinFET
e. Junction-less field effect transistors
f. Importance of steep subthreshold slope devices: impact ionization FET (I-MOSFET) and tunnel FET (TFET)
Chapter 5. Alternate Device Materials to Mitigate Challenges
a. III-V heterostrucutre FET (HFET)
b. New high-mobility channels
c. Graphene and carbon nanotube-based materials
d. Ballistic transport based nanodevices: CNTFET, GNRFET & NWFET
Chapter 6. End of the Road Map: Quest for Beyond Si CMOS Era
a. The last decade of Moore’s law
b. Quest for beyond Si CMOS era: More Moore
c. More than Moore: SoC and SoP concepts
d. Extending CMOS: Beyond CMOS technologies
Chapter 7. Low-dimensional Devices:
a. Low-dimensional semiconductors: Growth & applications
b. Inclusion of quantum effect in nanodevices: quantum devices
c. Quantum effect in nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices
d. Recent trends in HEMT
e. Computational modeling at the nanoscale;
f. Fundamentals and applications of nanotubes, nanowires, quantum dots, and other low-dimensional materials;
Chapter 8. Devices with New Material Systems:
a. 2D novel material-based devices: TMDCs and other 2D materials
b. Organic electronics
c. Flexible and wearable electronics
d. Paper electronics
e. Novel optoelectronic devices
f. Nanocomposites in future nano electronic information storage devices
Chapter 9. Emerging Non-CMOS Devices & Technologies
a. Electrostatic-based electrical quantum-dot cellular automata (EQCA)
b. Tunnel-based nanodevices: tunnel FETs, single electron transistors (SET) and resonant tunneling diodes (RTD)
c. Magnetostatic-based magnetic quantum-dot cellular automata (MQCA)
d. Conductive polymer-based devices: CMOS-nanowire-molecular (CMOL) structure
e. Electric dipole-based devices: Negative capacitance FETs
f. Spin-based device and orbital-state-based devices: BisFET
g. Nano-electro-mechanical switches, devices and systems
Chapter 10. Sensors & Display Technologies
a. Optical, chemical, or biological sensors
b. MEMS devices and Thin films for sensor application
c. TFTs: Organic and flexible substrate electronics
Chapter 11. Application of Nanoscale Devices in Circuits
a. Application of nanoscale devices as biosensors
b. Ultra-scale CMOS and memory technologies
c. Circuit application of nanoscale devices
d. Analog/RF applications of emerging nanoscale devices
e. MOSFET design and its optimization for low-power applications
f. Low-power memory design for IoT enabled systems
Chapter 12. Analytical Modeling of Nanoscale Devices
Chapter 13. TCAD Simulation of Emerging Nanoscale Devices
Chapter 14. Photonic Integrated Circuits
Chapter 15. Advanced Materials and their Uses for Intelligent Devices
a. Smart sensors for renewable applications
b. Energy storage devices
c. Low-power energy harvesters
d. IoT enabled energy systems