Description

Short description :

You will learn key basic concepts of quantum electronic transport relevant for understanding electronic devices and sensors based on semiconductor and quantum materials. You will study how engineering quantum materials & structures at the nanoscale enables novel electronic properties for a wide variety of engineering applications. You will get skilled in anticipating the relationship between basic science and information technology applications.

Syllabus

Key topics :

• Field Effect Transistors (MOSFET, Ballistic FET , diffusive regime, quantum wire FET)

• Quantum currents & circuit elements (Quantum waveguide, Quantized conductance, Quantum currents, Quantum capacitance)

• Quantum well & tunneling device (tunnel transport, tunnel junction, from quantum well to negative differential resistance…).

• Single electron Quantum devices (Coulomb blockade, RC quantum model, single electron memory, single electron transistor)

• Quantum magneto-transport in 2D electron gas (Landau levels, Edges modes and Quantum channels, Integer Quantum Hall effect)

• Magneto-transport in Exotic Quantum Materials (Berry phase concept, Quantum Hall effect, Topological insulators, Quantum Anomalous Hall effect…)

• Atomic clocks

• Inertial sensors based on atom interferometry

• Magnetometers based on color centers in diamond

Contacts

Responsable(s) de l'enseignement

• Jean-François Dayen

Responsable(s) de l'enseignement

• Cyrille Solaro

MCC

Les épreuves indiquées respectent et appliquent le règlement de votre formation, disponible dans l'onglet Documents de la description de la formation.

Régime d'évaluation

CT (Contrôle terminal, mêlé de contrôle continu)

Évaluation initiale / Session principale - Épreuves

Seconde chance / Session de rattrapage - Épreuves