TFY4330 Nanoverktøy

Spring 2008

Last updated: Thursday 6 December 2007


Teacher: Ton van Helvoort, E-post: a.helvoort@ntnu.no, Department of Physics, NTNU Gløshaugen, 7491 Trondheim. Tel. 73593637. Office: D4-149 (Realfagbygd). http://folk.ntnu.no/helvoort/

Content for this page:

  • Progression schedule and notes

  • Exercises
  • Laboratories

  • Exam

  • Question hour before the exam
  • Extra materials

    • This page as .pdf can be found here.

    Course Abstract:

    The course will cover the following main topics (list of abbreviation can be found here):

     

    1. Probe material interaction: What can be measured and what is desired. General operation modes: transmission, reflection, direct, scanning/static, etc.
    2. Crystallography: Elementary introduction to crystallography, miller indices, reciprocal space, space groups,international table, etc.
    3. Diffraction: Scattering, Bragg's law, Kinematical/dynamic, comparison electrons, X-rays and neutrons
    4. Optical microscopy: principle, application and developements like convocal microscopy
    5. Electron microscopy: SEM and TEM, including related analytical techniques as EDS and EELS.
    6. Scanning probe microscopy: AFM, STM, SNOM
    7. Surface sensitive techniques: Auger, XPS
    8. Spectroscopy: SIMS, FTIR and Raman
    9. Manipulation at the nm-scale: AFM/STM, optical and magnetic tweezers, intro in EB, Lithography and FIB.

     

    The overall aim of the course is getting familiar with material characterisation principles and techniques.

     

    The techniques will be illustrated by examples related to nanotechnology, class exercises and students labs.

     

    All course materials will be in English. Basic physics knowledge about light, scattering, electrons, atom structure and nanotechnology is assumed.

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    Pensum/literature:

     

     

    Useful additional reference material (will not be examined):

     

    Note: There is a lot of material available on the Web, but to rely on text found via Google or in Wikepedia can be dangerous as the content is often not critically reviewed. Use the Web, but be alert!


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    Messages (last one first)

    06/12: This page is under constructions and most of the links are not active!

    04/12: FIRST ACTIVITY: Introduction lab in B4-106 on Wednesday 09/01/08: First half of the class (alphabetically, students own responsibility to come in the correct group and on time) meets at 10.15am. Second half of the class meets at 13.15.

    13/11: To optimise the course for this year and the following years your feedback is essential! I look forward to work with a reference group to improve the course from the first day of the course. Representatives/volunteers can contact me.

    17/10: Test

     

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    Time Schedule

    Table: Time schedule

    Time

    Monday

    Tuesday

    Wednesday

    Thursday

    Friday

    08.15 - 10.00

    ~

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    (LAB)

    ~

    (TFY4335)

    10.15 - 12.00

    ~

    (TFY4335)

    LAB

    (TFY4335)

    F: R60

    12.15 - 13.00

    (LAB)

    ~

    LAB

    Ø: R60

    ~

    13.15 - 14.00

    (LAB)

    ~

    LAB

    Ø: R60

    ~

    14.15 - 15.00

    (LAB)

    ~

    (LAB)

    ~

    ~

    15.15 - 16.00

    (LAB)

    ~

    (LAB)

    ~

    ~

     

    Note: Part of the exercises will be replaced by lectures. The 7 different labs run partly parallel and are scheduled in a separate schema (see below), time is made available in addition to what was scheduled on Wednesdays (noted as (LAB)). The course TFY 4335 "Bionanotechnolgy" runs parallel and the contents of the courses are partly intertwined.

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    Lecturing schedules and notes

    Table: Overview lecture and exercise hours

    Week

    Topic

    Materials (B-K = Brandon-Kaplan's book)

    Notes

    Remarks

    2

    Introduction course set-up, Probe-mater interaction

    Handouts "intro"

    (incl. B-K ch 1.1)

    * 10/01

    * 11/01

    Only lectures, no exercises. Intro lab on 09/01

    3

    Intro crystallography

    Handouts "crystallography"

    (incl. B-K ch 1.2)

    * 17/01

    2hr lecture Thursday, 2 hr exercises Friday

    4

    Scattering, structure factors and XRD

    Handouts "Scattering"

    (incl. B-K ch 2.1-2.2-2.4)

    * 24/01

    * 25/01

    Only lectures, no exercises

    5

    XRD

    Optical microscopy

    B-K ch 2.3

    B-K ch 3

    * 31/01

    * 01/02

    Only lectures, no exercises

    6

    Optical microscopy

    Intro Electron microscopy

    B-K ch 3 + handouts on convocal

    B-K ch. 4.1, 5.1-5.2

    * 08/02

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday (XRD)

    7

    Electron microscopy: SEM

    B-K ch. 5.4-5.12

    * 14/02

    * 15/02

    Only lectures, no exercises

    8

    Electron microscopy: TEM

    B-K ch. 4.3-4.5

    * 21/02

    * 22/02

    Only lectures, no exercises

    9

    No lectures (Tiltaksuker)

    10

    No lectures (Tiltaksuker)

    11

    Electron microscopy: TEM

    B-K ch. 4.6 and 4.11

    * 14/03

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday (EM)

    12

    Easter break

    13

    Electron microscopy: AEM

    B-K ch. 6

    * 28/03

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday (EM)

    14

    Scanning probe techniques

    B-K ch. 7 + evt. handouts on SNOM

    * 03/04

    * 04/04

    Only lectures, no exercises

    15

    Surface sensitive techniques: XPS and Auger

    B-K ch. 8

    * 11/04

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday

    16

    Spectroscopy

    Handouts on Raman, FTIR and dynamic light scattering

    * 18/04

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday

    17

    Manipulation

    Handouts "manipulation"

    * 25/04

    2hr lecture Friday, 2 hr exercises Thursday

    18

    Summary with examples

    (Tuesday)

    (Case study lab Wednesday)

    Thursday 1st May free, lecture on Friday optional if required

    * 29/04

    1hr lecture Tuesday, 1 hr exercises

    Total: 40 hr lecture and 16 hr exercises. Scheduled: 28hr lecture and 28 hr exercises.


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    Exercises


    The exercises are not compulsory. They are meant as support for the students grasping the essentials from the lectures and apply them to nanotechnology issues. Participation is recommended.

    Table: Overview exercises with solutions

    Date

    Topic

    Exercises

    Solutions

    Remarks

    18/01 (Friday)

    Crystallography

    E-Crystallography

    S- Crystallography

     

    07/02

    Scattering, structure factors and XRD

    E-Diffraction

    S-Diffraction

     

    13/03

    Electron microscopy I

    E-EM-I

    S-EM-I

     

    27/03

    Electron microscopy II

    (electron diffraction)

    E-EM-II

    S-EM-II

     

    10/04

    Miscellaneous I

    E-Misc-I

    S-Misc-I

     

    17/04

    Spectroscopy

    E-Spectroscopy

    S-Spectroscopy

     

    24/04

    Miscellaneous II

    E-Misc-I

    S-Misc-II

     

    29/04

    Miscellaneous III

    (repetition)

    E-Misc-I

    S-Misc-III

     

    Note: Exercises are not necessary same as exercises and work out examples in B-K.


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    Laboratories

    Table: Overview of laboratory exercise

    Lab

    Hours per student in lab

    Students per group

    No. of groups

    Notes

    Intro and Safety

    2

    15

    2
    • Intro + safety

    Intro clean room

    3

    5

    6
    • Clean room

    SEM*

    4

    3

    8
    • SEM

    TEM*

    5

    3

    10
    • TEM

    AFM*

    4

    3

    8
    • AFM

    XRD*

    4

    3

    8
    • XRD

    Optical

    4

    6

    5
    • Optical 1

    Optical*

    4

    6

    5
    • Optical 2

    Sum:

    32

     

     

     

    *: With lab exercises/report writing. There will be a final case study in week 17 + report writing to verify that the students extracted the essentials from each lab and can apply them to a real example from nanotechnology. Scheduled: 14 weeks * 4hr = 56hr Prep: 8hr and report writing 16hr

    Here you can find the sign in list, the groups and time schedule for the laboratories.

     

    The lab reports count 50% for the overall grade. The grading criteria for the lab exercises can be found here. Reports should be handed in within two weeks after specific lab was held. Reports handed in after Wednesday 13th May will not be accepted!

     

     

    Exam

     

    The final, written exam will be held on XXX. The final exam counts 50% for the overall grade. There is no mid-term exam.

     

     

    Question hour before the exam

    If requested an hour where the students can ask questions about exam-related issues will be held on the Thursday (12.15-13.00) before the final exam in room R60.

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    Responsible for this page: Ton van Helvoort