ELEC 545

Nanotechnology

Units: 1.5

Nanoscale materials and devices. Techniques and tools of nanostructure fabrication and characterization. Properties of low-dimensional materials. Semiconductor nanostructures, metallic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, organic molecules, quantum dots. Applications including nanoelectronics and molecular devices, biotechnology, nanoscale computation, nanomechanical devices and nanophotonics. Students are required to complete a project.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 545, 420.

Prerequisites: 320 or equivalent.

Graduate course in the Electrical Engineering program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.