Nanostructured Materials

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
40
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
40
CFU 6
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Modalità esame

Seminar and oral on topics of the course

Note modalità di esame

The student will first present a seminar on a paper selected by the professors and then oral exam will take place on topics presented in the course. Questions will be make to verify the comprehension level of the student.

Prerequisiti

Solid State Physics, Semiconductor Physics

Programma

  • Growth techniques (bulk, epitaxial: CVD, MOCVD, MBE, CBE)
  • Fabrication techniques of nanostructures: topdown and bottom-up
  • Morphological properties of nanostructures (AFM, SEM, STM)
  • Electronic, chemical and compositional properties of nanostructures (Photoemission, XPS, PEEM, XPEEM, SPEM)
  • Structural properties of nanostructures (TEM, XRD)
  • Optical properties of nanostructures (PL, PLE, Raman)
  • Low-temperature magneto-transport
  • Materials (2DEG, Graphene, bP, NWs, QDs)
  • Examples (quantum Hall effect, hydrogen storage)

Obiettivi formativi

The students will learn about synthesis techniques for nanostructured materials and techniques for their characterization.

Riferimenti bibliografici

  • Jeffrey Y. Tsao: Materials Fundamentals of Molecular Beam Epitaxy, 1992
  • Ivan V. Markov: Crystal Growth for Beginners: Fundamentals of Nucleation, Crystal Growth, and Epitaxy, 2004
  • Terry L. Alford, Leonard C. Feldman, James W. Mayer: Fundamentals of Nanoscale Film Analysis, Springer, 2007
  • Carlo Lamberti: Characterization of semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures, Elsevier, 2008
  • Mohamed Henini: Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Elsevier, 2013.
  • Bert Voigtländer: Scanning Probe Microscopy, Springer, 2015.