MEAM 572
Micro/Nanoscale Energy Transport
Fall 2007

Lecture	Week	Dates	Topics	Reading	Pages
1	1	Wednesday September 5	Course Overview and Introduction	Chapter 1: Introduction	3-34
2	2	Monday September 10	Material Waves and Energy Quantization	2.1: Basic Wave Characteristics 2.2: Wave Nature of Matter	43-52
3	2	Wednesday September 12	Material Waves and Energy Quantization	2.3: Schrödinger Equation Solutions	52-70
4	2	Friday September 14 Towne 315	Energy States in Solids	"	"
5	3	Monday September 17	Energy States in Solids	3.1.1-3.1.3: Crystal Structure and Bonding	77-87
6	3	Wednesday September 19	Energy States in Solids	3.1.4: Reciprocal Lattice	87-91
7	3	Friday September 21 Towne 315	Energy States in Solids	3.2: Electron Energy States in Crystals	91-100
8	5	Monday October 1	Energy States in Solids	"	"
9	5	Wednesday October 3	Energy States in Solids	3.3: Lattice Vibrations and Phonons	100-105
10	6	Monday October 8	Energy States in Solids	"	"
11	6	Wednesday October 10	Energy States in Solids	3.4: Density of States 3.5: Energy Levels in Artificial Structures	105-117
12	6	Friday October 12 Towne 315	Statistical Thermodynamics and Thermal Energy Storage	4.1: Ensembles and Statistical Distribution Functions	123-137
13	7	Wednesday October 17	Statistical Thermodynamics and Thermal Energy Storage	4.2: Internal Energy and Specific Heat 4.3: Size Effects on Internal Energy and Specific Heat	137-150
14	7	Friday October 19 Towne 315	EXAM 1
15	8	Monday October 22	Energy Transfer by Waves	5.1.1: Plane Electron Waves 5.2.1: Interface Reflection and Refraction of a Plane Electron Wave 5.2.4: Thermal Boundary Resistance 5.4: Evanescent Waves and Tunneling (Electrons) 5.5: Energy Transfer in Nanostructures: Landauer Formalism 5.6: Transition to Particle Description (Electrons)	Selected pages in Chapter 5: 159-161 169-171 180-185 194-198 198-203 204-208, 213-214
16	8	Wednesday October 24	Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws	6.1: Liouville Equation and Boltzmann Equation	227-233
17	9	Monday October 29	Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws	"	"
18	10	Monday November 5	Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws	6.2: Carrier Scattering	233-242
19	10	Wednesday November 7	Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws	6.3: Classical Constitutive Laws	242-262
20	12	Monday November 19	Particle Description of Transport Processes: Classical Laws	6.4: Conservation Equations	262-273
21	12	Wednesday November 21	Classical Size Effects	Chapter 7: Classical Size Effects	282-336
22	13	Monday November 26	Energy Conversion and Coupled Transport Processes	8.1: Carrier Scattering, Generation, and Recombination	348-367
23	13	Wednesday November 28	Energy Conversion and Coupled Transport Processes	8.2: Coupled Nonequilibrium Electron-Phonon Transport without Recombination	367-373
24	14	Monday December 3	Energy Conversion and Coupled Transport Processes	8.3: Energy Exchange in Semiconductor Devices with Recombination	373-386
23	14	Wednesday December 5	Energy Conversion and Coupled Transport Processes	8.4: Nanostructures for Energy Conversion	386-395
26	14	Friday December 7 Towne 315	EXAM 2
	16	Monday December 17 3-5 p.m. Towne 307	FINAL PRESENTATIONS

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