Near-equilibrium transport : fundamentals and applications

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La 4e de couverture indique : "These lectures are designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of carrier transport in nano-devices using a novel, "bottom up approach" that agrees with traditional methods when devices are large, but which also works for nano-devices. The goal is to help students learn how to think about carrier transport at the nanoscale and also how the bottom up approach provides a new perspective to traditional concepts like mobility and drift-diffusion equations. The lectures are designed for engineers and scientists and others who need a working knowledge of near-equilibrium ("low-field" or "linear") transport. Applications of the theory and measurement considerations are also addressed. The lectures serve as a starting point to an extensive set of instructional materials available online."  Read more... 1. Overview -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Diffusive electron transport -- 1.3. Types of electron transport -- 1.4. Why study near-equilibrium transport? -- 1.5. About these lectures -- 1.6. Summary -- 1.7. References -- 2. General Model for Transport -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Mathematical model -- 2.3. Modes -- 2.4. Transmission -- 2.5. Near-equilibrium (linear) transport -- 2.6. Transport in the bulk -- 2.7. Summary -- 2.8. References -- 3. Resistance: Ballistic to Diffusive -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2.2D resistors: ballistic -- 3.3.2D resistors: diffusive to ballistic -- 3.4. Discussion -- 3.5. Summary -- 3.6. References -- 4. Thermoelectric Effects: Physical Approach -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Electric current flow: Seebeck effect -- 4.3. Heat current flow: Peltier effect -- 4.4. Coupled flows -- 4.5. Thermoelectric devices -- 4.6. Discussion -- 4.7. Summary -- 4.8. References -- 5. Thermoelectric Effects: Mathematics -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Driving forces for current flow -- 5.3. Charge current -- 5.4. Heat current -- 5.5. Discussion -- 5.6. Summary -- 5.7. References -- 6. An Introduction to Scattering -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Physics of carrier scattering -- 6.3. Transmission and mean-free-path -- 6.4. Mean-free-path and scattering -- 6.5. Discussion -- 6.6. Summary -- 6.7. References -- 7. Boltzmann Transport Equation -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The Boltzmann Transport Equation -- 7.3. Solving the steady-state BTE -- 7.4. Transport coefficients -- 7.5. Magnetic fields -- 7.6. Discussion -- 7.7. Summary -- 7.8. References -- 8. Near-equilibrium Transport: Measurements -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Resistivity/conductivity measurements -- 8.3. Hall effect measurements -- 8.4. The van der Pauw method -- 8.5. Temperature-dependent measurements -- 8.6. Discussion -- 8.7. Summary -- 8.8. References -- 9. Phonon Transport -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Electrons and phonons -- 9.3. General model for heat conduction -- 9.4. Thermal conductivity -- 9.5. Debye model for Mph(hw) -- 9.6. Phonon scattering -- 9.7. Discussion -- 9.8. Summary -- 9.9. References -- 10. Graphene: A Case Study -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Graphene -- 10.3. Density-of-states and carrier density -- 10.4. Number of modes and conductance -- 10.5. Scattering -- 10.6. Conductance vs. carrier density -- 10.7. Discussion -- 10.8. Summary -- 10.9. References.