Phys8550 - Physics of Thin Films Course Schedule 2017

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Date
Description
Notes
 Mon.   Jan. 09       Introduction / Course Outline / Projects
see notes
 Wed.   Jan. 11       Semiconductors
(pdf-file: 8.2MB)
 Mon.   Jan. 16
Martin Luther King-Holiday
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 Wed.   Jan. 18      Growth Techniques: Evaporation, Sputtering, and more
(pdf-file: 1.8 MB )
 Mon.   Jan. 23         Semiconductor thin film growth: Epitaxy
(pdf-file: 2 MB )
 Wed.   Jan. 25         Thermodynamics
(pdf-file: 236 KB )
 Mon.   Jan. 30         Thermodynamics of thin film nucleation
(pdf-file: 390 KB )
 Wed.   Feb. 01    LPE growth process / Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
       HW Assign.#1 due
(pdf-file: 4.7 MB )
 Mon.   Feb. 06        MBE / Chemical beam epitaxy (CBE)
(pdf-file: 40 MB )
 Wed.   Feb. 08         Organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD)
(pdf-file: 10 MB )
  Mon.   Feb. 13    Properties of thin films: Structural, electrical and magnetical charaterization
       HW Assign.#2 due
(pdf-file: 2.1 MB )
  Wed.   Feb. 15         Real-time / in-situ characterization of films
(pdf-file:3.6MB)
    Feb. 20 - 23       Conference no Classes
 
  Mon.   Feb. 27         Optical properties of Solids
       HW Assign.#3 due
(pdf-file: 140 KB )
  Wed.   Mar. 01         Optical properties of Solids
continued
  Mon.   Mar. 06         Experimental characterization of solids
see handouts
  Wed.   Mar. 08         Defects and luminescence in solids
see handouts
 March. 13 - 17
Spring Break
 
  Mon.   Mar. 20      Defects and luminescence in solids
pdf-file: 800 KB
  Wed.   Mar. 22       Diodes & Transistors
pdf-file: 520 KB)
  Mon.   Mar. 27      Solar cells
     HW Assign. #4 due !
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  Wed.   Mar. 29       Detectors
(pdf: 50KB)
  Mon.   Apr. 03       light emitting diodes, Semiconductor LASERS
see handouts
  Wed.   Apr. 05       PhotonicCrystals
see handouts
  Mon.   Apr. 10       Nonlinear photonics in thin film crystals: from bulk NLO's to 2D/3D confined nonlinear elements.      HW Assign. #5 due !
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  Wed.   Apr. 12       Garnett B. Cross: "Adsorption (physisorbed/chemisorbed) mechanisms of atoms and molecules and semicondutor (SC) surfaces / interfaces"
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  Mon.   Apr. 17       Alireza Fali: "Nanoscale structral and optoelectronic properties of SC surfaces and hetero-interfaces"
      Nanostructures / symmetry and electromagnetism in solids
see handouts
  Wed.   Apr. 19       Ahmad Kafaee Razavi: " Strain-induced charge carrier accumulation at heterojunction interfaces"
     
see handouts
  Mon.   Apr. 24       David O'Brien: "Chemical and Electrochemical processes for metal deposition onto semiconductor "
     
see handouts
  Wed.   Apr. 26       Fatemeh Nematollahi: "Polarization induced 2D electron and hole gases in III-N quantum wells"
      Review of Physics of Thin Films
see handouts

Grading: Homework: 50%, Project: 50%

Student Evaluation and Comment Sheet for Project Presentation


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