FY511: Nanostructure characterisation (5 ECTS)

STADS: 07003701

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.
4th quarter.

Teacher responsible
Email: kloesgen@ifk.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Revison of timetable:
: Skemaændring efter ønske fra Inst.

Comment:
FY511 ligger nu i 4. Kvartal!

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Nanobioscience students must have passed the first year’s courses in their curriculum. The contents of FY521 Introductory Quantum Mechanics I and FY503 Electromagnetism are assumed to be known. For students taking the course as an elective course, only the latter requirement applies.

Course introduction
In this course the students learn how structures can be formally described. They get acquainted with some of the currently most important experimental techniques available for nanostructure characterization. The course is not a hands-on experimental course but the lectures are accompanied by exercises where experimental methods are further explored and elucidated. Selected examples with original data will be used to train analysis techniques. The course will also include demonstrations of the laboratory equipment available at SDU (Odense and Sønderborg) and will use, as part of the instruction, material available on the Internet.

Expected learning outcome
By the end of the course the students will be able to

• distinguish between ordered and non-ordered structures
• describe order using crystallographic terms and other physical parameters
• explain the physical background that is required to measure and describe nanostructures
• describe the experimental principles applied for the characterization of nano-structures
• apply scientific sources to deepen their competences regarding special methods
• write a report in the same format as a scientific article on the application of a method for structure characterization.

Subject overview
Nanostructures in physical, chemical and biological systems:

1. Optical techniques resolving down to about 40 nm: microscopy, SNOM, FCS, and confocal microscopy, including the use of quantum dot materials as markers
2. Electron microscopy with resolution capabilities of at least 1,5 nm (TEM, SEM, STEM) with additional techniques for composition analysis and contrast
3. Raster-probe methods (AFM, STM, SNOM)
4. Scattering techniques (neutrons, electrons, X-rays and light)

(Abbreviations: TEM: transmission electron microscopy; SEM: scanning electron microscopy; STEM: scanning transmission electron microscopy; SNOM: scanning near-field optical microscopy; FCS: fluorescence correlations spectroscopy; AFM: atomic force microscopy; STM: scanning tunnel microscopy).

Literature

• Walker: Physics, 3rd Ed., 2007, Pearson International Edition.
• Horst-Günther Rubahn (oversat og bearbejdet af Per Morgen): Nanoteknologi, Gyldendal, 2007.
• Noter fra forelæsningerne.

Syllabus
See syllabus.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
Oral examination with internal second examiner and marks according to the Danish 7-point marking scale. The examination will be based on a project on the structure method. The topic will be chosen by the students as agreed with the supervisor. The report must be handed in two weeks before the examination. Re-examination after 2nd quarter. The mode of exam at the re-examination may differ from the mode of exam at the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

20 forelæsninger, 20 eksaminatorietimer/opgaveregning, 10 timer projektarbejde.
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Language
This course is taught in English.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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