Nanotech

MNS 102
Techniques for Materials and Nanosciences
2020 Winter

Course Bulletin
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MNS 102 LEC 0.50 - Techniques for Materials and Nanosciences

Overview of materials synthesis, including both wet chemical and dry physical based methodologies; basic metrology and materials characterization of surface and bulk properties; introduction to the design, fabrication, and evaluation of simple devices; survey of emerging new techniques in materials and nanosciences. [Offered: W]

LECTURE MATERIALS

Lecture Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 8:30-10:00 am in Phys-150
Office Hours: Thursday, Friday 11 am to 3 pm

Materials for the lecture will usually be uploaded 12 hours before the lecture.
Please print out these lecture materials beforehand - just in case we run into unanticipated technical problems. Please see the Class Log table below.

Please note the important dates:
In-class Term Test #1 on Feb 13 (Thur), and in-class Term Test #2 on Mar 12 (Thur).
Please work around these dates as these dates are now fixed.

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Term Test #1: To be held in class on Feb 13 (Thursday) 8:30 to 9:30 - The test materials will include all the materials up to the end of the Feb 6 lecture.

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Week	CLASS LOG: *What have we learned today?*	Topic	Homework
0	<Jan 2> No lecture - starting up...
1	<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	01 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
3	<Jan 21> \| 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	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 \|	11
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	12	HW #3 Due Mar 4
6	<Feb 11> \|\| 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 13> Term Test #1 - Everything up to and including materials covered up to the end of Feb 6 lecture.	21 Handout_1 Handout_2
	<Feb 18> Reading week - No lecture <Feb 20> Reading week - No lecture
7	<Feb 25> \|\| Structure of Metals \| Atomic Packing Fraction \| Densities \| \| Cubic unit cells, CCP vs HCP <Feb 27> \|\| Structures of ceramics \| Common structures \|\| Structure of polymers \|\| Densities of Materials - comparison \| X-ray Diffraction \| Rontgen, and X-ray generation \|	22	HW #4 Due Mar 18
8	<Mar 3> Laue equations and diffraction \| Bragg's law \| Single-crystal XRD \| Powder XRD \| Bragg-Brentano setups <Mar 5> \|\| 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
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 inclusive, with emphasis on materials not tested in Term Test #1.	23	HW #5 Due Mar 25
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	24
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 1
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 \|\| \|\| Course wrap up	26
Final examination: 23 April (Thursday) 12:30-3:00 pm - tentative

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