Part IA Linear Analysis of Circuits and Devices course:
Course outline:
- Circuits using resistors, to understand basic principles & rules of DC currents & voltages, batteries
- AC circuits: filters & frequency response
- Semiconductors – diodes & transistors, (DC)
- AC operation of transistors
- Op Amps
Part IIB Nanotechnology course:
Course outline:
- Wave-packets, how to describe particles by using waves – wave-functions
- Quantum equation of motion – Schrödinger’s equation
- Effect of spatial confinement on quantum systems: energy levels
- The origin of band structure – why materials are/are not conductors
- The origins of electrical resistance
- Perturbation theory – field emission
- Nanotechnology in more detail – how to play with atoms and molecules