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Organic Nanostructures at Inorganic Surfaces
FSI-9ONAAcad. year: 2023/2024
The emphasis is laid on understanding of physical and chemical properties of organic -inorganic interfaces: structure and morphology of organic layers/nanostructures, electronic band alignment, substrate-adsorbate charge transfer, optical properties.
1. Review of an essential knowledge from solid state physics, physical chemistry and surface science.
2. Physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. Prototypical metal-metal, metal-semiconductor interfaces.
3. Molecular layers on solid surfaces: formation of interface in vacuum and liquid, elementary processes – adsorption, bonding, diffusion. Influence of kinetics and thermodynamics; self-assembly.
4. Electronic, magnetic and optical properties: electronic level alignment, charge transfer, magnetic interaction and screening.
5. Self-assembled monolayers (SAM): formation, control and functional properties. Colloidal nanoparticles. Molecular self-assembly on solid surfaces.
6. Experimental methods for determination of structural, chemical, electronic and optical properties of organic-inorganic interfaces.
7. Devices featuring organic layers and nanostructures.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The lectures are on voluntary basis: they are supplemented by a significant share of individual study.
Aims
General knowledge of subject content and ability to perform quantitative estimates.
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Basic literature
H. Ibach: Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. (EN)
H. Lüth: Solid Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films, Springer verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. (EN)
Review papers: (4.1) Y. Yin, P. Alivisatos: Colloidal nanocrystal synthesis and the organic–inorganic interface, Nature 437, 2005, 664. (4.2) S.M. Barlow, R. Raval: Complex organic molecules at metal surfaces: bonding, organisation and chirality, Surf. Sci Rep. 50, 2003, 201. (4.3) J. A. A. W. Elemans, S. Lei, S. De Feyter: Molecular and Supramolecular Networks on Surfaces: From Two-Dimensional Crystal Engineering to Reactivity, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 48, 2009, 7298. (4.4) R. Otero, A.L. Vázquez de Parga, J.M. Gallego: Electronic, structural and chemical effects of charge-transfer at organic/inorganic interfaces, Surf. Sci. Rep. 72, 2017, 105. (EN)
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The emphasis is laid on understanding of physical and chemical properties of organic -inorganic interfaces: structure and morphology of organic layers/nanostructures, electronic band alignment, substrate-adsorbate charge transfer, optical properties.
1. Review of an essential knowledge from solid state physics, physical chemistry and surface science.
2. Physics and chemistry of surfaces and interfaces. Prototypical metal-metal, metal-semiconductor interfaces.
3. Molecular layers on solid surfaces: formation of interface in vacuum and liquid, elementary processes – adsorption, bonding, diffusion. Influence of kinetics and thermodynamics; self-assembly.
4. Electronic, magnetic and optical properties: electronic level alignment, charge transfer, magnetic interaction and screening.
5. Self-assembled monolayers (SAM): formation, control and functional properties. Colloidal nanoparticles. Molecular self-assembly on solid surfaces.
6. Experimental methods for determination of structural, chemical, electronic and optical properties of organic-inorganic interfaces.
7. Devices featuring organic layers and nanostructures.