nanoHUB-U Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics A L4.1: Heat & Electricity: Introdution

Table of Contents:
00:00 Lecture 4.1: Introduction
00:25 4.1a Introduction
04:41 4.1b Introduction
06:02 4.1c Introduction
11:05 4.1d Introduction
14:29 4.1e Introduction
16:36 4.1f Introduction
22:05 Coming up next ..

The modern smartphone is enabled by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms long. Interestingly the same amazing technology has also led to a deeper understanding of the nature of current flow on an atomic scale and my aim is to make these lessons from nanoelectronics accessible to anyone in any branch of science or engineering. I will assume very little background beyond linear algebra and differential equations, although we will be discussing advanced concepts in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics that should be of interest even to specialists.

In the first half, Part A, of this course (4 weeks) we introduce a new perspective connecting the quantized conductance of short ballistic conductors to the familiar Ohm's law of long diffusive conductors, along with a brief description of the modern nanotransistor. In the second half, Part B, (4 weeks) we will address fundamental conceptual issues related to the meaning of resistance on an atomic scale, the interconversion of electricity and heat, the second law of thermodynamics and the fuel value of information.

[mccanncarpentryandengineer]

Hello there, I have to say I am really enjoying your lectures. I am really interested in trying to understand and wrap my head around so to speak the Seebeck Coefficient. I am really interested in understanding this. I want to be able to work out how to put metals together so as to magnify this effect. You made reference in one of your Lectures to you having wrote a book.
I was hoping you might direct me to that book or more Lectures where you go into this process in more detail. Hope to hear back from you. Cheers Simon.