Individual course details
Study programme Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Chosen research area (module) -
Nature and level of studies Mater studies
Name of the course Selected topics in Nanophysics 
Professor (lectures) Milan Damnjanovic, Ivanka Milosevic, Tatjana Vukovic, Sasa Dmitrovic
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Zoran Popovic
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 10 Status (required/elective) elective
Access requirements Mathematical Physics 1, Quantum Mechanics
Aims of the course Learning about basic phenomenology and research techniques of nanostructures. 
Learning outcomes Basic knowledge in nanophysics, methods of studying  nanostructures and  their applications.   
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Definition of nanosystem and their configurations.
2. Confined systems: nanodots and fullerenes.
3.  Confined systems: nanolayers and graphene.
4. Symmetry of layers; symmetry based properties.
5. Symmetry of quasi-one-dimensional systems and their symmetry based properties.
6. Nanotubes
6.1. Configuration and symmetry.
6.2. Electronic and phonon bands
6.3. Electro-optical properties
6.4. Characterisation methods for nanotubes
6.5. Raman and infra-red scattering
6.6. Mechanical properties
7.Graphene
7.1. Configuration and symmetry
7.2. Electronic bands: linear spectrum near the Fermi level
7.3. Phonon bands
7.4. Graphene bilayer 
Examples/ practical classes solving various problems, discussions, homeworks, seminars.  
Recommended books
1 S. Reich, C. Thomsen and J. Maultzsch, Carbon Nanotubes, Wiley-VCH Weinheim, 2004.   
2 G. Dresselhaus, P. C. Eklund, Science of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes, Academic Press, 1996 
3 S. M. Lindsay, Introduction to Nanoscience, Oxford University Press (2010).
4 А. H. Castro Neto, Electronic properties of graphene, Rev.Mod.Phys. 81 (2009) 109
5 S. Datta, Lessons from Nanoelectronic,  World Scientific Publishing Co.(2012).
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
6 4      
Teaching and learning methods lectures, practical classes, seminars, homeworks.
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 10 written examination 20
practicals 10 oral examination 20
papers      
presentations 30