Novel Technologies and Renewables

1^st week: Introduction to micro- and nanoelectronics (main concepts, aims, trends, advantages/disadvantages).

2^nd week: Fabrication methods in microelectronics (photolithography, etching, thin film deposition, semiconductor doping).

3^rd week: Characterization methods in microelectronics.

4^th week: Physical background and modeling of microelectronic and microelectromechanical devices.

5^th week: Novel trends and devices in microelectronics (novel sensors, transistors, photonic devices).

6^th week: Novel trends and devices in microelectronics (microelectromechanical systems).

7^th week: Fabrication methods in nanoelectronics (top-down, bottom-up approaches, electron beam lithography, nanoimprint lithography, scanning probe lithography, focused ion beam machining, atomic layer deposition, self-assembly, other nanolithography and nanomanipulation methods).

8^th week: Characterization methods in nanoelectronics (electron microscopy, atomic force microscope, scanning tunneling microscope, other scanning probes).

9^th week: Novel trends and devices in nanoelectronics (novel sensors, photonic devices, molecular electronic devices).

10^th week: Novel trends and devices in nanoelectronics (nanoelectromechanical systems).

11^th week: Utilization of renewable energy sources with the aid of micro/nanoelectronics.

12^th week: Novel microelectronics-based device concepts related to conversion of renewable energies to electricity (novel solar cell concepts, conversion of heat to electricity, energy scavenging devices, novel electric energy storage concepts).

13^th week: Novel nanoelectronics-based device concepts related to conversion of renewable energies to electricity (novel solar cell concepts, conversion of heat to electricity, energy scavenging devices, novel electric energy storage concepts).

14^th week: Summary.