How about leveraging heat to cure cancer or to solve today’s energy crisis? Computational simulation of heat-related phenomena from the atomic-scale to living organisms is key to achieve these goals and will be at the core of this multidisciplinary course. The necessary physics, modeling, and computing background will be covered, from theory to practical implementations in concrete applications.

Foundations of digital circuits: basic building blocks, Boolean algebra, circuit analysis and synthesis, and design of finite-state machines.

Digital and analogue signals and their representation. Combinational and sequential circuits and systems, boolean algebra, Karnaugh-maps. Finite state machines. Memory and computing building blocks in CMOS technology, programmable logic circuits.

In this edition of the Integrated Systems Seminar, members of the Digital Circuits and Systems group give technical presentations on their work in an environment that simulates a technical conference andinteract with the audience. In addition, short tutorial lectures will be given to support students for their dissemination activities.

The category of "Laboratory Courses, Projects, Seminars" includes courses and laboratories in various formats designed to impart practical knowledge and skills. Moreover, these classes encourage independent experimentation and design, allow for explorative learning and teach the methodology of project work.

This class offers an introduction into quantum transport theory, a rigorous approach to electron transport at the nanoscale. It covers different topics such as bandstructure, Wave Function and Non-equilibrium Green's Function formalisms, and electron interactions with their environment. Matlab exercises accompany the lectures where students learn how to develop their own transport simulator.