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10459 Physics of Nanostructures
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Danish title: Materialefysik på nanometerskala
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| Type: Å, Language: EEE |
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Credit points:
7,5 point |
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| Offered by:
Department of Physics
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| Prerequisite: 10201/10203 |
| Recommended semester:
7th - 9th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures and seminars. The lectures will be given by researchers from DTU and other inst. |
| Examination:
Approval of compulsory activities is a prerequisite for ass. of report. Report and oral presentation
(13 point scale
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Remarks: This course may also be taken as a ph.d. course.
The course is also offered for students from the University of Copenhagen |
| Contact person: |
Jørgen Bindslev Hansen, FYS, Building 309, Tel. +45 4525 3242
Steen Mørup, FYS, Building 307, Tel. +45 4525 3171
Francois Grey, MIC, Building 345, Tel. +45 4525 5746 |
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| Aim: The course gives the student an overall perspective on front-line research topics in material science on the nanometer scale, as well as an in-depth insight into one of these topics which is chosen for the oral presentation and the report. |
Contents: I. Introduction to electronic properties of metals, semiconductors and superconductors. Introduction to magnetism (para-, dia-, ferro- and antiferro-magnetism, magnetic domains)
II. Introduction to mesoscopic physics: Characteristic energy and length scales. Dimensionality.
III. Fabrication methods: epitaxial thin films (MBE, MOCVD), ion implantation, clusters e-beam lithography, AFM/STM lithography.
IV. Structural properties: electron and X-ray diffraction, RHEED, LEED, SIMS etc. AFM/STM surface probes, abundance of cluster sizes.
V. Electronic properties: Quantum wells. Tunneling. Mesoscopics of metals, semiconductors and superconductors. Coulomb blockade. Superlattices. Artificial atoms.
VI. Magnetic properties: Superparamagnetism. Surface magnetism. Magnetic thin films and multilayers.
VII. Optical properties: Excitons in low-dimensional semiconductor structures. Wannier-Stark effect.Bloch oscillations. Microcavity lasers. |
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