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| 0351-4054 | Physical Properties of Nano-Structures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Course Topics:
- General discussion of how properties of materials change with reducing the size/dimension
- Calculation of the spacing between energy levels in small metallic particles
- Coulomb Blockade, Single electron tunneling
- Nanowires - quantum conductance
- Surface plasmons
- Semiconductor quantum dots - quantum confinement
- Nanomagnets - superparamagnetism
- Nanoscale thermoelectrics
- Synthesis and assembly of nanostructures
- Experimental techniques and devices