Analysis of Nanomaterials (NANO*2100)

Course Information

Prerequisites

NANO*2000 

Instructor

Stefan Kycia 
Phone extension: 52540 or 52797
e-mail: skycia@uoguelph.ca

Office hours

Rm. MacNaughton 224,Tuesday and Thursday 3:00 to 4:00

Lectures

MacNaughton Bldg (MacN) 201 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday, 9:30-10:20AM

Description

This course provides an in-depth study of the important instruments that have been developed to analyze nanostructured materials. Useful information that is derived from scattering processes involving X-rays, visible light, electrons, and neutrons will be studied. Microscopic techniques such as Atomic Force Microscopy will also be studied because of the nanoscale structural information that they can provide. The study of spectroscopic techniques also forms part of the course. The application of these instruments to lithographic production techniques is also developed.

A tentative lecture schedule is:

• Week 1: Energy and Momentum in Relativity; Atoms; Kinetic Theory
• Week 2: Light Scattering, Rutherford Back Scattering, the Nuclear Atom
• Week 3: Light Quanta; Corpuscles vs Waves; Compton Scattering
• Week 4: Atomic Energy Levels; Atomic Spectra; Bohr Atom
• Week 5: Hydrogen-Like Atoms; Matter Waves; the Wave Function; Probabilistic Interpretation
• Week 6: Wave Packets and Fourier Analysis; Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
• Week 7: X-Ray Scattering and EXAFS from Nanomaterials
• Week 8: Schrodinger's Equation in One Dimension; Stationary States;Particle in a Box; Time Independent SE 
• Week 9:SE for a Particle in a Rigid Box; Particle in a not-so-rigid box 
• Week 10:Tunneling and Scanning Tunneling Microscope 
• Week 11:Three Dimensional Schrodinger Equation; Quantum Numbers; Degeneracy
• Week 12:Energy at the Nanoscale 

Resources

Textbook

• Introduction to Nanoscience by Hornyak, Dutta, Tibbals, and Rao, 2008

Reference

• Modern Physics For Scientists and Engineers 2nd Edition, by Taylor, Zifiratos and Dubson, 2004 

Evaluation