Introduction to Nano electronic Design

Graduate

The purpose of this graduate course is to study the emerging nanotechnologies with focus on single- electron tunneling (SET) device and circuit design. It covers various aspects of SET-based nanoelectronic design, including quantum phenomena with nanodevices, I-V characteristics of SET transistors, SET inverters, SIMON simulator, SET-based threshold logic design, hybrid SET-MOS architectures, reliability issues of SET circuits, and SET-based multiple valued logic and memory design. Assigned readings of recent advances in this area (including the instructor's recent research progress) will be actively discussed. The course projects/presentations are usually required. The students are expected to use SIMON tool and/or Cadence tools for circuit simulation. The students should have some background in digital logic design and CMOS integrated circuit design.(3 lecture hours a week.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ELEC-8650 and it if offered under ELEC-8900 as a Special Topics course.)