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:
Week
Lecture
Week
01(3/05)
Introduction and EM:
structure and working principles (Prof. Tung Hsu, NTHU)
Week
02(3/12)
STM:
structure and working principles
Week
03(3/19)
SPM:
structure and working principles
Week
04(3/26)
OM:
structure and working principles (Dr. Kung-Hsuan Lin)
Week
05(4/02)
National Holiday
Week
06(4/09)
Growth of nanomaterials and thin films (Dr. Raman Sankar)
EM:
structure and working principles (Prof. Tung Hsu, NTHU)
Week
13(5/28)
Paper study and presentations
Week
14 (6/04)
Paper study and presentations
Week
15(6/11)
Paper study and presentations
Week
16(6/18)
Final Written Exam (25%)
Week
17(6/25)
Deadline for final report (40%)
Papers Study:
A number of relevant papers are selected from publishing journals.
Each student should choose 3 papers with preference order and send it to the instructor (jasonc@phys.sinica.edu.tw) within two weeks.
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.
The student should study the assigned paper and prepare a power-point file for presentation toward the end of this course.
Characterization
C1
Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions
C2
Real-space imaging of molecular structure and chemical bonding by single-molecule inelastic tunneling probe
C3
Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene
superlattices
C4
Spatially Resolved Imaging on Photocarrier Generations and Band
Alignments at Perovskite/PbI2 Heterointerfaces of Perovskite Solar Cells by Light-Modulated Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
C5
Chiral Majorana fermion modes
in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor structure
C6
Atomic Step Flow on a Nanofacet
C7
Observation of half-quantum flux in the
unconventional superconductor b-Bi2Pd
C8
Evidence for moiré excitons in van der
Waals heterostructures
Emergent Materials
E1
Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2
E2
A Metal-Insulator Transition of the Buried MnO2 Monolayer in Complex Oxide Heterostructure
E3
Synthesis of Lateral Heterostructures of Semiconducting Atomic Layers
E4
Thin single-wall BN-nanotubes formed inside carbon nanotubes
E5
Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum
hydride under high pressures
E6
A gate-free monolayer WSe2 pn diode
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
Local Light-Induced Magnetization Using Nanodots and Chiral Molecules
M4
Controlling many-body states by the electric-field effect in a two-dimensional material
M5
A kilobyte rewritable atomic memory
Grading:
Midterm Written Exam (35%)
Final Written Exam (25%)
Presentation and report (40%)
A. Presentation (30minutes, 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 25 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:
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.
Afterthoughts about her/his presentation and suggestions for improving the future course.