Week |
CLASS LOG:
What have we learned today? |
Topic |
Homework |
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<Jan 2>
No lecture - starting up... |
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<Jan 7>
Opener: Course
orientation & scope ||
Overview of
Materials and Nanosciences |
Defnition of Nanotech | Nanoscale | Common nano applications |
Nanomaterials: Properties & Applications | Nanomaterials as seen by SigmaAldrich
<Jan 9>
| Case Study: Nanocatalysts
|Case
study: Nanoelectronics: Moore's law | History of Nanotechnology |
Nanoscience | Course content
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01_supp |
HW #1
Due Jan 21 |
2 |
<Jan 14>
|| Types of Materials and their properties || Nanoscale phenomena | Lab tour
<Jan 16> ! MP | Reactivity | Lycurgus Cup | Gold colloids |
Lab tour |
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3 |
<Jan 21>
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Quantum confinement | Excition | Intentionally produced nanomaterials ||
Module 1: Materials Synthesis (2) -
Overview | Solid-state synthesis |
<Jan 23>
Strategies
for making nanomaterials | Bottom-up approach | Beaker chemistry, Sol-Sel,
Hydrothermal |
02
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HW #2
Due Feb 4 |
4 |
<Jan 28>
| Electrochemistry
| Templates, seed-layers and catalysts ||
Dry chemistry methods: Overview | Film growth modes
<Jan 30>
| Growth contro l CVD
| CVD reactions | Types of CVD | LPCVD vs PECVD | |
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5 |
<Feb 4>
PVD
| Mean Free Path | Other considerations | Physical Vapour Deposition |
Vacuum deposition: thermal and e-beam evaporation
<Feb 6>
| GLAD | Sputter deposition: DC and AC | Magnetron sputtering
| Pulsed Laser Deposition | Molecular Beam Epitaxy | Atomic Layer Deposition
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12 |
HW #3
Due Mar 5 |
6 |
<Feb 11>
|| Module 2:
Basic Metrology and Materials Characterization (12) - Structure
determination techniques
<Feb
13>
Term Test #1
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Everything up
to and including materials covered up to the end of Feb 6 lecture.
KEY
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Handout_1
Handout_2 |
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<Feb 18> Reading
week - No lecture
<Feb 20> Reading
week - No lecture
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7 |
<Feb 25>
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Basic introduction to group theory: Symmetry operation, Bravis lattices, Miller indices
| Crystallographic planes
<Feb 27>
|| 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 | X-ray
Diffraction | Rontgen, and X-ray generation | |
22
Homework #4
22 (full version) |
HW #4
Due Mar 26 |
8 |
<Mar 3>
Laue equations and diffraction | Bragg's law
| Single-crystal XRD | Powder XRD | Bragg-Brentano setups
<Mar 5>
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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 |
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9 |
<Mar 10> || Light microsocpy | Basic optics | History of LM |
Simple Microscope || Basic concepts: NA, R, WD, DOF ||
Types of LM | Bright Field | Dark Field
<Mar 12>
Term Test #2
- Everything up to and including materials covered in
Weeks 1-8, with emphasis on materials not tested in Term Test #1. KEY
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23 |
HW #5
Due Apr 2 |
10 |
<Mar 17> | Kohler
illumination | Polarized Light Microscopy | Differential Interference
Contrast and phase contrast || Transmitted light vs reflected light setup | Fluorescence Microscopy
<Mar 19>
|| Electron | History of EM |
Everhart Thomley SE detector | TEM vs LM | TEM Optics | LM vs EM |
Resolution | Abberation | DOF |
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11 |
<Mar 24> | Modes of Operation | Imaging vs Diffraction
| Imaging : BF, DF, HRTEM | TEM vs STEM | Limitations of TEM
<Mar 26>
|| SEM overview | SEM
vs TEM | Electron scattering | IMFP | Deexcitations |
25 |
HW #6
Due Apr 2 |
12 |
<Mar 31>
| Photoionization | Secondary electrons || Modes of
operation | SE vs In-lens | Different contrast mechanisms | SE vs BSE | EDX | Mapping
and quantitative analysis | SEM pros and cons || STM:
Overview | QM tunnelling
<Apr 2>
| Principle & Instrumentation |
Modes of operation | Pros & Cons | Applications || AFM | Forces | Principle
| Modes of Operation | Static vs Dynamic modes | Applications
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Course wrap up
|| Composition
determination techniques | Optical spectroscopies: Absorption vs
transmission, IR, Raman, UV, photoluminescence
| X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy: Photoelectric effect and Einstein's equation,
electronic and band structures | Secondary ion mass spectrometry: Static vs
Dynamic SIMS ||
Characterization of electrical, physical and magnetic properties |
Resistivity and conductivity | Heat capacity | Magnetic properties ||
Module 3:
Device Design and Fabrication
(2) - Top-down vs
bottom-up approaches | Optical Lithography | Electron Beam Lithography |
Nano-imprinting | Nano-machining and nano-manipulation ||
Module 4:
Emerging Techniques (2) -
Super-resolution
Microscopy | Helium Ion Microscopy | Ion Beam Lithographhy | Other tools |
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Final examination:
23 April (Thursday) 12:30-3:00 pm -
PAC UPPER 11
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