Characterization, Fabrication, and Manipulation at Nanometer Scale

Credits: 3

Lecturer: Chang, Chia-Seng 張嘉升教授

Classroom: P101 Meeting Room, IoP

Class hour: Thursday, 14:10-17:00

Course Objectives:

This course intends to familiarize students with some standard methods and techniques employed in current research related to nanoscale characterization, fabrication and manipulation. The emphasis, besides given lectures, has also been placed on the student’s ability to apply the acquired knowledge to studying a recent relevant article and to present it to the audience at an understandable level.

Course Syllabus:

	Lecture
Week 01 (2/25)	Overview and Lab Tour
Week 02 (3/03)	STM: structure and working principles
Week 03 (3/10)	SPM: structure and working principles
Week 04 (3/17)	EM: structure and working principles (Prof. Chen, NTHU)
Week 05 (3/24)	EM: operations and examples (Prof. Chen, NTHU)
Week 06 (3/31)	Lithography: optical, e-beam (Prof. C.D. Chen, AS)
Week 07 (4/07)	Growth of nanomaterials
Week 08 (4/14)	Spectroscopy: optical and electronic
Week 09 (4/21)	Midterm Written Exam (40%)
Week 10 (4/28)	Quantum transport in nanostructures
Week 11 (5/05)	Atomic manipulations and optical tweezers
Week 12 (5/12)	Introduction to synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering
Week 13 (5/19)	Paper study and presentations
Week 14 (5/26)	Paper study and presentations
Week 15 (6/02)	Paper study and presentations
Week 16 (6/16)	Paper study and presentations
Week 17 (6/23)	Final report and evalution (60%)

Papers Study:

Paper presentation dates and titles

Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations in a nanoparticle at atomic resolution

Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2

Charge Order Driven by Fermi-Arc Instability in Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+d

Chemical Mapping and Quantification at the Atomic Scale by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Radial modulation doping in core–shell nanowires

Controlling many-body states by the electric-field effect in a two-dimensional material

Recent advances in graphene quantum dots for sensing

High-Speed AFM and Applications to Biomolecular Systems

Chemical mapping of a single molecule by plasmon-enhanced Raman scattering

Synthesis of Lateral Heterostructures of Semiconducting Atomic Layers

Local Light-Induced Magnetization Using Nanodots and Chiral Molecules

Nanomechanical mass sensing and stiffness spectrometry based on two-dimensional vibrations of resonant nanowires

Nanowire liquid pumps

Plasmonic Nanolaser Using Epitaxially Grown Silver Film

Probing Charges on the Atomic Scale by Means of Atomic Force Microscopy

Recent advances in submolecular resolution with scanning probe microscopy

Thin single-wall BN-nanotubes formed inside carbon nanotubes

Topological Phase Transition and Texture Inversion in a Tunable Topological Insulator

Visualizing short-range charge transfer at the interfaces between ferromagnetic and superconducting oxides

Grading:

1. Midterm Written Exam (40%)
2. Presentation and report (60%)

A. Presentation (30minutes, 45%)

Students should prepare power-point slides from the paper assigned at the beginning of this course, and present them in a way that is understandable to their classmates. The suggested format is 20 min for presentation and 10 min for answering questions from the audience.

B. Report (at most two pages, 15%)

Each student should write a report on:

1. The paper assigned at the beginning of this course, including a) synopsis of the paper and b) what can be further studied from this paper.
2. Afterthoughts and feedbacks about her/his presentation and the whole course.