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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:

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)
Week 07  (4/16) Spectroscopy: optical and electronic
Week 08  (4/23) Midterm Written Exam (35%)
Week 09  (4/30) Atomic manipulations and optical tweezers
Week 10  (5/07) Lithography: optical, e-beam (Prof. C.D. Chen, AS)
Week 11  (5/14) Quantum transport in nanostructures
Week 12  (5/21) 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:

  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 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:

  1. Midterm Written Exam (35%)
  2. Final Written Exam (25%)
  3. 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:

    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.