Lecture 4: Maxwell's Demon - Energy from Information

This lecture is part of the series "Nanoelectronic Devices, with an Introduction to Spintronics".

Nanoelectronic devices are at the heart of today's powerful computers and are also of great interest for many emerging applications including energy conversion, sensing and alternative computing paradigms. Our objective, however, is not to discuss specific devices or applications. Rather it is to convey the conceptual framework that has emerged over the last twenty years for understanding current flow on an atomic scale. This is important not only for the design of novel nanoscale devices, but also for the conceptual insights it affords into some of the long-standing questions of transport theory and quantum physics.

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• Supriyo Datta