| Date | Lectures | Assignments | ||||||
| 09/24 | Review of semiconductor physics. (notes) | HW 1 | PRL1980 | PRL1985 | PRL1988 | PRL1991 | ||
| 09/26 | Review of semiconductor physics (ctd). | |||||||
| 09/29 | Low-dimensional semiconductors: quantum wells, wires, dots. (notes) | |||||||
| 10/01 | Transport in electric fields. Quantized conductance.Coulomb blockade.Single electron transistor. (supplement) | |||||||
| 10/03 | Transport in magnetic fields. Quantum Hall effect: integer, fractional.Aharonov-Bohm effect. (notes) (supplement) | Fractional Charge Nature 1997 | ||||||
| 10/06 | Interband transitions: direct bandgap. (notes) | GaAs absorption (Phys Rev 1962) | ||||||
| 10/08 | Interband transitions: indirect bandgap. | Ge absorption (Phys Rev 1955) | ||||||
| 10/10 | Luminescence. Excitons. (notes) | Nature 2006 | ||||||
| 10/13 | Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Optoelectronic applications. (notes)(supplement) | |||||||
| 10/15 | Basic concepts of optical response. (notes)(supplement) | |||||||
| 10/17 | Metals: optical properties. (notes) | HW 2 | Dielectric permittivity (for HW 2) | PRL2000 | Science2003 | Science2004 | Nature2003 | |
| 10/20 | Surface plasmon polariton. (supplement) | SPP in hole arrays | PRL2001 | 5D imaging | ||||
| 10/22 | Plasmon resonance in nanoparticles and arrays.(notes) | Plasmon laser | Spaser | |||||
| 10/24 | Photonic crystals.(notes) | Optical circuits | Invisibility cloak | Bio photonic crystals | ||||
| 10/27 | Metamaterials.(supplement) | |||||||
| 10/29 | Organic materials: intro. (supplement) | |||||||
| 10/31 | Graphene. (notes) | HW 3 | MEG in Pentacene | MEG in QDs | CNT | QHE in graphene:room | QHE in graphene | |
| 11/03 | Graphene (ctd). | |||||||
| 11/05 | Carbon nanotubes.(notes) | collective mass in graphene | ||||||
| 11/07 | Carbon nanotubes (ctd.). (supplement) | |||||||
| 11/10 | Organic vs inorganic semiconductors: optical properties.(supplement) | |||||||
| 11/12 | Organic vs inorganic semiconductors:electronic properties. | |||||||
| 11/14 | Energy and charge transfer in organic solids. Molecular electronics.(supplement) | |||||||
| 11/17 | Scanning probe microscopy: AFM.(supplement) | AFM: adatom charge | AFM: bioelasticity | STM of graphene | STM: Ag clusters | |||
| 11/19 | Scanning probe microscopy: STM.(notes) | |||||||
| 11/21 | Electron microscopy: TEM, SEM. (supplement) | TEM: graphene | 4D electron microscopy | STM: Landau levels in graphene | ||||
| 11/21 | Electron microscopy: TEM, SEM. (ctd) | |||||||
| 11/24 | Optical microscopy.(supplement) | Super-resolution review | NSOM review | |||||
| 11/26 | Superresolution: PSF engineering and single molecule detection.(supplement) | |||||||
| 11/28 | No class: Thanksgiving. | |||||||
| 12/01 | NSOM. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.(supplement) | |||||||
| 12/03 | Nanofabrication.(supplement) | |||||||