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