Outline of Lectures

1. Physics of Nanoscale Transistors
   1. Introduction
   2. The ballistic MOSFET
   3. Scattering theory of the MOSFET
   4. Beyond the Si MOSFET
2. nanoMOS: Semiclassical Transport
   1. Introduction
   2. Ballistic Boltzmann Transport equation
   3. Macroscopic models (Drift-Diffusion, Energy Transport)
   4. Benchmark study
   5. Quantum potential approaches
3. nanoMOS: Quantum Transport
   1. Ballistic quantum transport in 1-D
   2. Ballistic quantum transport in nanoMOS
   3. A quick look at scattering
   4. Quantum transport: the NEGF formalism
4. Green's function Approach for MOSFETs
   1. Introduction
   2. Ballistic electron transport: Real vs. Mode space
   3. Boundary conditions
   4. Scattering in n-channel MOSFETs
5. Optimizing 10 nm MOSFETs with nanoMOS
   1. Motivation
   2. Device structure
   3. Device design
   4. Device performance
   5. Discussion
6. Simulating Carbon Nanotube FETs
   1. Introduction
   2. Gate electrostatics
   3. I-V characteristics
   4. Comparison with Si MOSFET 
7. Tour of the nanoMOS code
   1. Spirit of nanoMOS
   2. The "big" and the "small" routines
   3. The post/pre-processing routines
   4. The computation routines
   5. How to parallelize a MATLAB application?
   6. How/Where to parallelize nanoMOS?
   7. Where do we go from here?

Background Articles

1.

"Essential physics of carrier transport in nanoscale MOSFETs", M. Lundstrom and Z. Ren, IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, vol. 49, pp. 133-141, 2002. (371 KB PDF).  

2.

"Parallelization of the nanoscale device simulator nanoMOS 2.0 using a 100 node Linux cluster",S. Goasguen, A.R. Butt, K.D. Colby nad M.S. Lundstrom, IEEE Nanotechnology Conference, Washington DC, Aug 26-28, 2002. (243 KB PDF)

3.

"A compact scattering model for the nanoscale double-gate MOSFET", A. Rahman and M. Lundstrom, IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, vol. 49, pp. 481-489, 2002. (178 KB PDF).  

The lectures were delivered by Prof. Lundstrom and members of his research group at Purdue University, as detailed below:

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Lab Exercises