This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

 

Lecture Notes

Each of the lecture topics below is accompanied by lecture notes in PDF format. This course was originally recorded in the RealAudio™ streaming audio format. These original audio files are available for download from the Internet Archive collection. Note: Lectures 1 and 2 were recorded at a lower fidelity than the subsequent lectures.

LEC # TOPICS iTunes Audio Internet Archive Audio
1 Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Transport Phenomena; Microscopic Pictures of Heat Carriers (PDF) (MP3 - 38MB) (MP3 - 38MB)
2 Characteristic Time and Length, Simple Kinetic Theory, Characteristic (PDF) (MP3 - 40.1MB) (MP3 - 40.1MB)
3 Schrödinger Equation (PDF) (MP3 - 39.1MB) (MP3 - 39.1MB)
4 Quantum Wells, Harmonic Oscillators, Rigid Rotors, and Hydrogen Atoms (PDF) (MP3 - 38.8MB) (MP3 - 38.8MB)
5 Rigid Rotors, Hydrogen Atom, Electronic Levels in One-dimensional Lattice Chain (PDF) (MP3 - 38.9MB) (MP3 - 38.9MB)
6 Electronic Energy Levels in Crystals (PDF) (MP3 - 39.1MB) (MP3 - 39.1MB)
7 Phonon Energy Levels in Crystals, Crystal Structures (PDF) (MP3 - 39.2MB) (MP3 - 39.2MB)
8 Reciprocal Lattice, X-ray (PDF) (MP3 - 36.9MB) (MP3 - 36.9MB)
9 Energy Spectrum in Nanostructures, Density of States, Statistical Distributions (PDF) (MP3 - 33.8MB) (MP3 - 33.8MB)
10 Specific Heat of Molecules, Electrons, Phonons; Blackbody Radiation (PDF) (MP3 - 38.5MB) (MP3 - 38.5MB)
11 Effects of Nanostructures on Energy Storage, Energy Transfer by Waves, Electron Waves (PDF) (MP3 - 39.2MB) (MP3 - 39.2MB)
12 Electromagnetic Waves, Reflection of Waves at a Single Interface (PDF) (MP3 - 40.5MB) (MP3 - 40.5MB)
13 Acoustic Waves, Interference and Tunneling (PDF) (MP3 - 39.3MB) (MP3 - 39.3MB)
14 Laudauer Formalism (PDF) (MP3 - 38.5MB) (MP3 - 38.5MB)
15 Midterm 1    
16 Transport in Carbon Nanotubes (Guest Lecture Courtesy of Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT. Used with permission.) (PDF) (MP3 - 39.9MB) (MP3 - 39.9MB)
17 Transition to Particle Description, Louiville Equation (PDF) (MP3 - 37.9MB) (MP3 - 37.9MB)
18 Boltzmann Equation, Relaxation Time Approximation (PDF) (MP3 - 27.5MB) (MP3 - 27.5MB)
19 Fourier Law and Newton's Shear Stress Law (PDF) (MP3 - 38.1MB) (MP3 - 38.1MB)
20 Ohm's Law and Thermoelectric Effect (PDF) (MP3 - 39.1MB) (MP3 - 39.1MB)
21 Nanostructured Thermoelectrics (Guest Lecture Courtesy of Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT. Used with permission.) (PDF) (MP3 - 38.3MB) (MP3 - 38.3MB)
22 Take Home Exam 2    
23 Thermoelectric Effect (PDF) (MP3 - 35.6MB) (MP3 - 35.6MB)
24 Classical Size Effects, Parallel Direction (PDF) (MP3 - 38.7MB) (MP3 - 38.7MB)
25 Classical Size Effects, Perpendicular Direction (PDF) (MP3 - 6.1MB) (MP3 - 6.1MB)
26 Liquid, Brownian Motion, Forces and Potentials, Electrokinetics, Surface Tension (PDF) (MP3 - 34MB) (MP3 - 34MB)