| Individual course details | ||||
| Study programme | General physics, Applied and Computational physics | |||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate, Master | |||
| Name of the course | Introduction to Nanophysics | |||
| Professor (lectures) | doc. dr Sasa Dmitrovic | |||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | doc. dr Sasa Dmitrovic | |||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||
| ECTS | 4 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |
| Access requirements | none | |||
| Aims of the course | The adoption of important concepts necessary
for description and understanding the physical processes and properties of systems on the nanometer scale. |
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| Learning outcomes | Abbility to apply techniques of quantum
mechanics and statistical physics to specific processes on nanometer scale. Acquiring the skills for multidisciplinary approach cpecific to nanoscience. |
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| Contents of the course | ||||
| Lectures | 1. Nanophysics: introduction and a brief
history of the subject. 2. Classical physics at the nanoscale: application of dimensional analysis and order-of-magnitude estimations. 3. Quantum confinement in 0D: nanodots and fullerene molecules. 4. Quantum confinement in 1D: nanowires and nanotubes. 5. Quantum confinement in 2D: quantum wells and graphene. 6. The tunneling effect and interfaces. 7. Transport fenomena on the nanoscale: ballistic transport, Ohm's law and conductance quantum. Nanotransistor. 8. Surface plasmon-polariton, and (delocalized) surface plasmons. Nanophotonic waveguides. Metamaterials. 9. Physics of lipid- and polymer-based nanostructures. 10. Molecular motors: types and working principle. 11. Fabrication at the nanoscale. "Top-down" and "bottom-up" design. 12. Characterization and manipulation at the nanoscale: AFM and STM microscopy, optical tweezers. |
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| Examples/ practical classes | ||||
| Recommended books | ||||
| 1 | S. M. Lindsay, Introduction to Nanoscience, Oxford University Press (2010). | |||
| 2 | D. Natelson, Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, Cambridge University Press (2015). | |||
| 3 | P. Nelson, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life, W.H. Freeman (2004). | |||
| 4 | S. V. Gaponenko, Introduction to Nanophotonics, Cambridge University Press (2010). | |||
| 5 | S. Datta, Lessons from Nanoelectronic, World Scientific Publishing Co.(2012). | |||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |
| 3 | ||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, seminars, computational exercises. | |||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||
| assesed coursework | examination | mark | ||
| coursework | 5 | written examination | ||
| practicals | 15 | oral examination | 40 | |
| papers | ||||
| presentations | 40 | |||