Nanoscale Device Physics: Science and Engineering Fundamentals

by Sandip Tiwari

Nanoscale devices differ from larger microscale devices because they depend on the physical phenomena and effects that are central to their operation. This textbook illuminates the behavior of nanoscale devices by connecting them to the electronic, as well as magnetic, optical and mechanical properties, which fundamentally affect nanoscale devices in fascinating ways. Their small size means that an understanding of the phenomena measured is even more important, as their effects are so dominant and the changes in scale of underlying energetics and response are significant. Examples of these include classical effects such as single electron effects, quantum effects such as the states accessible as well as their properties; ensemble effects ranging from consequences of the laws of numbers to changes in properties arising from different magnitudes of the interactions, and others. These interactions, with the limits on size, make their physical behavior interesting, important and
useful.

The collection of four textbooks in the Electroscience Series culminates in a comprehensive understanding of nanoscale devices -- electronic, magnetic, mechanical and optical -- in the 4th volume. The series builds up to this last subject with volumes devoted to underlying semiconductor and solid-state physics.

704 pages, Hardcover

Published August 15, 2017

Reviews

[Suyash Mallik · Rating 3 out of 5]

rating this in lieu of Sandip Tiwari's IITK lecture series from 2023. I had the privilege of doing an information mechanics course under him while he visited IITK, and got to learn a lot. That essence of spirited discussions is present throughout his lecture series as well (must have arisen from what he calls 'society of mind'). That being said - and sad as it may sound - despite being an EE student almost everything went over my head as I hadn't the foggiest about the advanced notions in semiconductor physics in lecture 2.