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Characterization, Fabrication, and Manipulation at Nanometer Scale

Credits: 3

Lecturer: Dr. 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 and lab tours, 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  (2/21) Overview
Week 02  (2/28) National holiday, no class
Week 03  (3/07) STM: structure and working principles (Prof. W.B. Su, AS)
Week 04  (3/14) SPM: structure and working principles (Prof. Chih-Wen Yang, AS) new
Week 05  (3/21) EM: structure and working principles
Week 06  (3/28) Spectroscopy: optical and electronic
Week 07  (4/04) National holiday, no class
Week 08  (4/11) Growth of nanomaterials and thin films
Week 09  (4/18) 　   Midterm Written Exam (30%)
Week 10  (4/25) Atomic manipulations and optical tweezers
Week 11  (5/02) Lab tour
Week 12  (5/09) Quantum transport in nanostructures
Week 13  (5/16) Lithography: optical, e-beam (Prof. C.D. Chen, AS)
Week 14  (5/23) Paper study and presentations
Week 15  (5/30) Paper study and presentations
Week 16  (6/06) Paper study and presentations
Week 17  (6/13) Final Written Exam (30%)
Week 18  (6/20) Deadline for final report (40%)

 Papers Study:

  1. A number of relevant papers are selected from publishing journals.
  2. Each student should choose 3 papers with preference order and send it to the instructor (jasonc@phys.sinica.edu.tw) within two weeks.
  3. Upon the reception of a student’s choice, the instructor will assign the paper to the student based on her/his preference. However, in case the paper has been chosen, the student will be assigned with the paper on the following order.
  4. The student should study the assigned paper and prepare a power-point file for presentation toward the end of this course.
  • Characterization
C1 Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations in a nanoparticle at atomic resolution
C2 Probing Charges on the Atomic Scale by Means of Atomic Force Microscopy
C3 Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions
C4 Real-space imaging of molecular structure and chemical bonding by single-molecule inelastic tunneling probe
C5 Nanomechanical mass sensing and stiffness spectrometry based on two-dimensional vibrations of resonant nanowires
C6 Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene
superlattices
C7 Spatially Resolved Imaging on Photocarrier Generations and Band
Alignments at Perovskite/PbI2 Heterointerfaces of Perovskite Solar Cells by Light-Modulated Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
C8 Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor structure
C9 Atomic Step Flow on a Nanofacet
C10 Experimental Observation of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator
C11 Superconducting topological surface states in the noncentrosymmetric bulk superconductor PbTaSe2
  • Emergent Materials
E1 Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2
E2 Bismuthene on a SiC substrate: A candidate for a high-temperature quantum spin Hall material
E3 A Metal–Insulator Transition of the Buried MnO2 Monolayer in Complex Oxide Heterostructure
E4 Radial modulation doping in core–shell nanowires
E5 Synthesis of Lateral Heterostructures of Semiconducting Atomic Layers
E6 MoTe2: A Type-II Weyl Topological Metal
E7 Thin single-wall BN-nanotubes formed inside carbon nanotubes
  • Manipulation
M1 Initiating and Monitoring the Evolution of Single Electrons Within Atom-Defined Structures
M2 Plasmonic Nanoantennas Enable Forbidden Förster Dipole−Dipole Energy Transfer and Enhance the FRET Efficiency
M3 Nanowire liquid pumps
M4 Local Light-Induced Magnetization Using Nanodots and Chiral Molecules
M5 Controlling many-body states by the electric-field effect in a two-dimensional material
M6 A kilobyte rewritable atomic memory

 

Grading:

  1. Midterm Written Exam (30%)
  2. Final Written Exam (30%)
  3. Presentation and report (40%)

    A. Presentation (25minutes, 30%)

    Students should prepare power-point slides from the paper assigned in 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 5 min for answering questions from the audience.

    B. Report (at most two pages, 10%)

    Students 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 about her/his presentation and suggestions for improving the future course.