Course Info

Instructor:	Prof. Gang Chen
Course Number:	2.57 2.570
Departments:	Mechanical Engineering
As Taught In:	Spring 2012
Level:	Graduate

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Exams

Practice Exam 1

Practice Exam 2

Lecture Notes

Complete 2004 Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Lecture 1: Intro to Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Transport Phenomena

Lecture 10: Fundamental of Statistical Thermodynamics

Lecture 11: Energy Transfer by Waves: Plane Waves

Lecture 12: EM Waves: Reflection at a Single Interface

Lecture 13: EM Wave Propagation Through Thin Films & Multilayers

Lecture 14: Wave Phenomena and Landauer Formalism

Lecture 15: Particle Description, Liouville & Boltzmann Equations

Lecture 16: Fermi Golden Rule and Relaxation Time Approximation

Lecture 17: Solutions to Boltzmann Equation: Diffusion Laws

Lecture 18: Electron Transport and Thermoelectric Effects

Projects

Absorption in Metamaterials: Turning Loss into Gain

More Efficient Solar Cells via Multi Exciton Generation

Course Info

Instructor:	Prof. Gang Chen
Course Number:	2.57 2.570
Departments:	Mechanical Engineering
As Taught In:	Spring 2012
Level:	Graduate

Topics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Videos

Problem Sets

Exams

Lecture Notes

Projects with Examples