Online courses on nanoelectronics will be offered by nanoHUB and Purdue University beginning in January.

The courses are aimed at engineers, academics, graduate students,and others who need to understand basic and latest developments in nanoelectronics. Students will use nanoHUB simulation and modeling tools and computational resources..

The first five-week course, “Basic Concepts of Nanoelectronics,” will include five topics: The New “Ohm’s Law” for nanoscale resistors, Quantum of Conductance, The Nanotransistor, The Spinning Electron, and Electricity from Heat. The second course will cover quantum models for nanoelectronic devices.

Supriyo Datta, Purdue’s Thomas Duncan Professor in the College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, will teach these first two courses. Students will be able to interact with Datta and other faculty and fellow students using the Purdue-developed HotSeat technology.

“Although we will be discussing cutting-edge concepts in nanoelectronics, the course will be understandable to anyone with a basic background in science and mathematics,” Datta says. “We make every effort to avoid using specialist jargon so that it is accessible to people from all branches of engineering and science.”

The first course begins Jan. 23, available at www.nanohub.org/u. Registration fee for each of the two five-week courses is $30, and continuing education credits are available for an extra fee. An advance copy of Professor Datta’s lecture notes, Lessons from Nanoelectronics : A New Perspective on Transport, to be published by World Scientific (2012), will be made available to registered students at no extra charge.

Datta is an award-winning researcher and teacher whose books on nanoelectronics — “Electronic Transport in Microscopic Systems” (Cambridge, 1995) and “Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor” (Cambridge, 2005) — are used as standard texts in the field of nanoelectronics.

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