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Fundamentals of Nanoscience
FSI-TZNAcad. year: 2024/2025
The subject gives an overview of fundamental principles of nanoscience in order to show their importance in the next development of nanotechnologies and related areas. The main effort will be aimed at description of changes of electronic structure given by the quantum mechanical confinement of electrons in nanostructures and of quantum phenomena accompanying transport properties of nanostructures. The consequences of a bigger relative number of surface atoms of nanoparticles (compared to bulk materials) on chemical reactivity, cathalytic effectivity and thermal properties of nanostructures will be discussed as well. Simultaneously, examples of applications of these qualitatively new phenomena covering electronics and spintronics, optoelectronics, as well as sensorics and medicine will be shown.
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The presence of students at practice is obligatory and is monitored by a tutor. The way how to compensate missed practice lessons will be decided by a tutor depending on the range and content of missed lessons.
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Students will learn the current status of the interdisciplinary field of nanoscience which will also help them to select their own topic (for diploma or doctoral thesis).
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Basic literature
J. H. DAVIES: The Physics Of Low-Dimensional Semiconductors: An_Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 1998 (EN)
KITTEL, C: Úvod do fyziky pevných látek 1997 (CS)
P. HARRISON: Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Theoretical and Computational Physics. John Wiley and Sons, London 2000. (EN)
Recommended reading
J. SPOUSTA: Základy nanověd. Elektronický studijní text, Brno, 2014. (CS)
P. A. TIPLER, R. A. LLEWELLYN: Modern Physics. (4th edition.) W. H. Freeman and Company, New York 2003. (EN)
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