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NANOSCIENCE
PHYS 453/553
Winter 2020/21
9:30-10:50am every TUE and THU @ Disque Hall 919
Instructor: Prof. Goran Karapetrov
Office: Disque 609
Contact: tel: 215 571 4090 ,
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Office hours: 11am-12:30pm every MON and WED
Textbook: “Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Nanotechnology” by Goddard, Brenner, Lyshevski, Iafrante, Eds. (CRC Press 2007, ISBN 0-8493-7563-0)
Syllabus
1. Introduction to Nanoscience
- Basic concepts
- Infrastructure
- Past and outlook for the future
2. Nanoscience Tools
- Fabrication (top down and bottom up)
- Characterization (scanning probe microscopies, electron microscopies, spectroscopies)
- Manipulation
3. Mechanics at Nanoscale
- Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS)
4. Nanoelectronics
- Quantum transport in 1D
- Confinement in strongly correlated systems
- Spintronics
- Graphene
5. Nanochemistry
- Self-assembly & synthesis
- Catalysis
6. Nanophotonics
- NSOM
- Surface Plasmonics (SPR, SERS)
- Quantum dots
- Metamaterials
7. Nano-bio
- Molecular functionalization
- Molecular motors
