http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/TIGP-NANO/Course/2018_Spring/2018_Spring_Characterization%20Fabrication%20and%20Manipulation%20at%20Nanometer%20Scale.html

Characterization, Fabrication, and Manipulation at Nanometer Scale
Lecturer: Chang, Chia-Seng 張嘉升教授
Classroom: P101 Meeting Room, IoP, AS
Class hour: Thursday, 14:10-17:00

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, 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.

Syllabus:
Week 01 (3/01) Overview and lab tour
Week 02 (3/08) EM: structure and working principles (Prof. Tung Hsu, NTHU)
Week 03 (3/15) EM: operations and examples (Prof. Tung Hsu, NTHU)
Week 04 (3/22) STM: structure and working principles
Week 05 (3/29) SPM: structure and working principles
Week 06 (4/06) National Holiday
Week 07 (4/12) Lithography: optical, e-beam (Prof. C.D. Chen, AS)
Week 08 (4/19) Growth of nanomaterials
Week 09 (4/26) Midterm Written Exam (40%)
Week 10 (5/03) Spectroscopy: optical and electronic
Week 11 (5/10) Thin film deposition
Week 12 (5/17) Quantum transport in nanostructures
Week 13 (5/24) Atomic manipulations and optical tweezers
Week 14 (5/31) Overview of emergent materials and microscopic techniques
Week 15 (6/07) Paper study and presentations
Week 16 (6/14) Paper study and presentations
Week 17 (6/21) Paper study and presentations
Week 18 (6/28) Final report and evaluation (60%)

Grading:

Midterm Written Exam (45%)
Presentation and report (55%)
A. Presentation (30minutes, 40%)
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 10 min for answering questions from the audience.
B. Report (at most two pages, 15%)
Each student 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.