Lessons From Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective On Transport

Download or read book Lessons From Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective On Transport written by Supriyo Datta and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms in length.These lecture notes are about a less appreciated by-product of the microelectronics revolution, namely the deeper understanding of current flow, and device operation that it has enabled, which forms the basis for a new approach to transport problems.The book assumes very little background beyond linear algebra and differential equations, and is intended to be accessible to anyone in any branch of science or engineering.