- Docente: Renato Colle
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/23
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Materials and Sensor Engineering for Environmental Sustainability (cod. 8490)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give basic concepts and computational methods of quantum mechanics, solid state theory and electronic transport theory for the quantum-mechanical study of electronic, structural and transport properties of molecular electronic devices.
Course contents
- ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: Wave-mechanics - Time
independent Schroedinger equation - Time dependent Schroedinger
equation - Applications to atomic and molecular systems.
- SEMICONDUCTOR FUNDAMENTALS: Basic semicondutor properties -
Energy band theory - Equilibrium carrier statistic -
Recombination-Generation processes - Carrier transport.
- ELEMENTS OF ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT THEORY: Capacitance - Level
broadening - Coherent and non-coherent transport - Quantum
transport equations - Physics of Ohm's law.
Readings/Bibliography
- J.J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics, ed. Wiley.
- R.F. Pierret, Advanced Semiconductor Fundamentals, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
- B.K. Ridley Quantum Processes in Semiconductors, Oxford Science
Publications.
- S.Datta, Quantum Transport. Atom to Transistors, ed. Cambridge.
Teaching methods
Assessment methods
Oral exam.
Teaching tools
Lectures notes.
It is suggested to take also the complementary course of CHIMICA
FISICA DEI MATERIALI SOLIDI.
Office hours
See the website of Renato Colle