Examination procedure
Seminar and oral on topics of the course
Examination procedure notes
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.
Prerequisites
Solid State Physics, Semiconductor Physics
Syllabus
- 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)
Bibliographical references
- 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.