- Docente: Renato Colle
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/23
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronic Engineering (cod. 0934)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide basic principles and
computational methods of quantum mechanics, solid state theory and
electronic transport theory to study structural, electronic and
transport properties of new materials and nanoelectronic devices.
Course contents
- ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS: Concepts and postulates - Measurements in quantum mechanics - Mathematical formalism - Symmetry - Theory of angular momenta - Matrix mechanics - Wave mechanics - Time dependent Schroedinger equation and time evolution of quantum states.
- APPLIED QUANTUM MECHANICS: Methods for approximate solutions of time independent Schroedinger equations - Applications to atomic and molecular systems.
- ELEMENTS OF QUANTUM THEORY OF SOLIDS: Geometrical description
of crystals: direct and reciprocal lattices - One electron
approximation - Band theory of crystals - Electronic properties of
selected crystals - Lattice dynamics of crystals - Transport
properties of electrons and phonons - Quantum processes in
semiconductors.
- ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN NANODEVICES: Model of a nanoscale field
effects transitor - An atomistic view of electrical resistence -
Energy levels diagram - Flow of electrons and rate equations -
Current in one-level models - The quantum of conductance -
Potential profiles and iterative procedures for calculating the I/V
characteristic - Coulomb blockade - Current in multi-level
conductors.
Readings/Bibliography
- J.J. Sakurai, Modern Quantum Mechanics, ed. Wiley.
- C.Cohen-Tannoudji, B.Diu, F.Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, ed. Wiley.
- G.Grosso and G.Pastori Parravicini, Solid State Physics, ed. Elsevier Academic Press.
- F.Bassani, U.M.Grassano, Fisica dello Stato Solido, ed.Bollati
Boringhieri.
- S.Datta, Quantum Transport. Atom to Transistors, ed.
Cambridge.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Lecture notes.
Attending to the Solid State Physical Chemistry Course is
strongly suggested.
Office hours
See the website of Renato Colle