Teaching
Courses
Principles of Semiconductor Devices This 40-lecture graduate-level course introduces the physics of semiconductor devices.
Reliability Physics of Nanoelectronic Transistors A 40-lecture course explains the reliability physics of semiconductor devices. Homework and Exams
Principles of Electronic Nanobiosensors A 32-lecture course discusses the essential physics of nanobiosensors
Nanostructured Electronic Devices: Percolation and Reliability. A 10-lecture course introduces the relevance of percolation for modern semiconductor devices
Fundamentals of Photovoltaics. A six-part lecture series explains on the physics of solar cells. Four quizzes for the PVSC Tutorial (Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4) and a draft copy of the corresponding book is posted here (The older version is posted here.) The updates and errata are posted here.
An Introduction to Data Analysis, Design of Experiments, and Machine Learning: This 15-lecture course combines statistics, physics, machine learning, and scaling theories to prepare a student to think differently (and perhaps more efficiently) about doing experiments and simulation.
A “Google-translate” for Manufacturing Data: A Preliminary Analysis: Does a machine have a heartbeat?!
Seminars
Visit the alamceedgroup YouTube channel for recent presentation by the members of our group
MOSFET: A Tutorial Introduction to Negative-Capacitor Landau Transistors
MEMS: Physics of Nanoelectromechanical (NEMS) Switches
Biosensors: Sequencing a Genome by a Torrent of Ions
Biosensors: Geometry of Diffusion and Performance Limits of Nanobiosensors
Solar Cells: Fundamental Limits and Technology Potential of Bifacial Solar Cells (mp4 file), Physics of Solder Bond failure (mp4)
Potentiometric Sensors: The physics of Potentiometric Sensors
Reflection: Computational Modeling: Experience from my Bell Lab Days
Advice: How to Write a Journal Paper Hoffman talk about research and teaching Where not to publish
Reliability: Emerging Challenges of Self-Heating in Surround Gate Devices: A Material-Device-System Perspective
Tutorials
MOSFET: Self-heating in transistors https://nanohub.org/resources/23373/download/moz_mapi-1.pdf
MOSFET: Chip-Package-Interaction in Modern 2.5D/3D Packaged Systems, IRPS 2024.
Reading Lists
If you are new to flexible electronics, solar cells, or Landau electronics, etc. you may find the following reading list a good starting point.
An Atom-to-Farm Introduction to Solar Cells
Physics Principles of Nanobiosensors
Software and Data Analytics
Biosensor (https://nanohub.org/resources/senstran)
Reliability Physics (https://nanohub.org/wiki/IntroductiontoReliability)
Instructional Resources: https://www.purdue.edu/instructionalsupport/index.html
PV Resource: PUB (https://nanohub.org/resources/pub) A simulator for bifacial solar cells.
PV Data Analytics: Data analysis tool for solar farm data
PV Resource: PUMET (https://nanohub.org/resources/pumet) A weather database
PV Resource: PVLimits (https://nanohub.org/resources/pvlimits) A thermodynamic limit calculator
PV Dataset Explorer: DEEDS (https://datacenterhub.org/deedsdv/main/view/206/experiments_dv/) click How to use this dataset? Then set it full screen and click to start
PVMAPs: A solar farm calculator for the world. (https://github.com/CEEDAnalytics/PV-MAPS)
PVMAPs Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYqQDBa2rTyzx6M3JiKyOcaOcPq7y3Oaq
Purdue Resources
Brightspace help: https://www.purdue.edu/brightspace/Workshops.php