Syllabus for Fundamentals of Nanoscience

III YEAR – VI SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 4BPHE3C

ELECTIVE COURSE III (C) – FUNDAMENTALS OF NANOSCIENCE

Unit I              Introduction

Introduction to Nanotechnology – Background and definition of Nanotechnology – Nano materials – Size Dependence.
Types: Nanowires, Nanotubes, Quantum Dots, Nanocomposites – Properties – Ideas about Nano materials synthesis.

Unit II             Carbon Nano Tubes (CNT)

Introduction to CNT – SWNT – MWNT – Properties. CNT based Nano objects- Applications.

Unit III           Fabrication

Fabrication methods – Top down processes – Milling, lithographics, Machining process. Bottom–Up process – MBE and MOVPE, liquid phase methods, colloidal and sol – gel methods – Self Assembly

Unit IV           Characterization

Scanning Probe Microscopy – Principle of operation – Instrumentation – Scanning Tunneling Microscopy – STM probe construction and measurement. 
Atomic Force Microscopy – Instrumentation and Analysis – Tunneling Electron Microscopy– operation and measurement

Unit V             Nano devices and Applications
             
Optical memories, Nano materials applications in magnetism – in electronics. Sensors – in Biomedical field – in optics – Nano layer applications – Nano particle applications
 
Reference

1.        Hand book of Nanotechnology – Bharat Bhushan.
2.        Nano technology and Nano electronics – W. R. Fahrner (Editor).
3.        Materials Science – P. Mani, G. Ranganath, R. N. Jayaprakash.
4.        Nanotechnology – Mark Ratner, Daniel Ratner.




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