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CLASS LOG:
What have we learned today? |
Topic |
Homework |
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0 |
<Jan 3>
No lecture - starting up... |
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| 1 |
<Jan 8>
Opener: Course
orientation & scope ||
Overview of
Materials and Nanosciences |
Defnition of Nanotech | Nanoscale | Common nano applications
<Jan 10>
| Nanomaterials: Properties & Applications | Nanomaterials as seen by SigmaAldrich | Lab tour |
01
Page 13 |
HW #1
Due Jan 22 |
| 2 |
<Jan 15>
| Case Study: Nanocatalysts
| Lab tour
<Jan 17>
| Case
study: Nanoelectronics: Moore's law | History of Nanotechnology |
Nanoscience | Course content || Types of Materials and their properties |
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| 3 |
<Jan 22>
|| Nanoscale
phenomena | MP
<Jan 24>
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Reactivity | Lycurgus Cup | Gold colloids | Quantum confinement | Excition |
Intentionally produced nanomaterials
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02
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HW #2
Due Feb 12 |
| 4 |
<Jan 29>
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Module 1: Materials Synthesis (2) -
Overview | Solid-state synthesis | Strategies for making nanomaterials |
Bottom-up approach |
Beaker chemistry, Sol-Sel, Hydrothermal | Electrochemistry
| Templates, seed-layers and catalysts
<Jan 31>
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Dry chemistry methods: Overview | Film growth modes | Growth contro l CVD |
11 |
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| 5 |
<Feb 5>
| CVD reactions | Types of CVD | LPCVD vs PECVD | PVD
| Mean Free Path | Other considerations | Physical Vapour Deposition |
Vacuum deposition: thermal and e-beam evaporation
<Feb 7>
| GLAD | Sputter deposition: DC and AC | Magnetron sputtering
| Pulsed Laser Deposition | Molecular Beam Epitaxy | Atomic Layer Deposition |
12 |
HW #3
Due Mar 5 |
| 6 |
<Feb 12>
|| Module 2:
Basic Metrology and Materials Characterization (12) - Structure
determination techniques | Basic introduction to group theory: Symmetry operation, Bravis lattices, Miller indices
| Crystallographic planes
<Feb
14>
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Structure of Metals | Atomic Packing Fraction | Densities | | Cubic unit
cells, CCP vs HCP || Structures of ceramics | Common structures || Structure
of polymers || Densities of Materials - comparison |
21a
21b
21c
Handout_1
Handout_2 |
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<Feb 19> Reading
week - No lecture
<Feb 21> Reading
week - No lecture
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7 |
<Feb 26> Term Test #1
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Everything up to and including materials covered in
Weeks 1-5.
<Feb 28>
| X-ray Diffraction | Rontgen, and X-ray generation |
Laue equations and diffraction | Bragg's law |
22a
22b
22c
22d |
HW #4
Due Mar 19 |
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8 |
<Mar 5>
| Single-crystal XRD | Powder XRD | Bragg-Brentano setups
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Information obtained by XRD | Phase ID, quantitative analysis, crystallinity and stress,
texture and orientation, crystallite size || Limitation of XRD | Triumph of
XRD - Double helix DNA structure
<Mar 7>
|| Light microsocpy | Basic optics | History of LM |
Simple Microscope |
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9 |
<Mar 12> ||
Basic concepts: NA, R, WD, DOF ||
Types of LM | Bright Field | Dark Field |
Kohler illumination | Polarized Light Microscopy
<Mar 14>
| Differential Interference Contrast and phase contrast || Transmitted light vs reflected light setup | Fluorescence Microscopy
|| Electron |
23 |
HW #5
Due Mar 26 |
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10 |
<Mar 19>
| History of EM |
Everhart Thomley SE detector | TEM vs LM | TEM Optics | LM vs EM |
Resolution | Abberation | DOF
<Mar 21>
Term Test #2
- Everything up to and including materials covered in
Weeks 1-9 inclusive, with emphasis on materials not tested in Term Test #1. |
24 |
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11 |
<Mar 26> | Modes of Operation | Imaging vs Diffraction
| Imaging : BF, DF, HRTEM | TEM vs STEM | Limitations of TEM || SEM overview
<Mar 28>
| SEM
vs TEM | Electron scattering | IMFP | Deexcitations
| Photoionization | Secondary electrons || Modes of
operation | SE vs In-lens |
25 |
HW #6
Due Apr 16 |
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12 |
<Apr 2>
| Different contrast mechanisms | SE vs BSE | EDX | Mapping
and quantitative analysis | SEM pros and cons || STM:
Overview | QM tunnelling |
Principle & Instrumentation | Modes of operation | Pros & Cons |
Applications || AFM | Forces | Principle | Modes of Operation | Static vs Dynamic modes | Applications || Course
wrap up
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26 |
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Final
Exam:
April 23 (Monday) 9:00-11:30 am in RCH-307 |
