Course Outline
This course is divided into several sections.
Course Overview
The synthesis approaches to nanomaterials/nanoparticles can be divided into top-down and bottom-up methods. The top-down approaches often use externally controlled tools to cut, mill, and shape materials into the designed nanoscale structures, for example, lithography methods, laser beams, mechanical techniques.
- Hydrothermal
- Solvothermal
- Electrospun
- Inert Gas Condensation
- Ion Sputtering Scattering
- Microemulsion and Inverse Microemulsion
- Laser Ablation
- Template Synthesis
- Biological Synthesis
- Sol-gel
- Co-precipitation
- Chemical Vapor Deposition
- Concepts in spectroscopy
- Absorption and emission spectroscopy
Course Learning Outcomes
The main objective of this course is give students brief introduction of techniques used in modern research laboratories. In thin film physics, students may learn surface preparation methods, deposition procedures and their characterization. Particularly, in solid state physics, XRD is one of the leading methods worldwide for structural analysis of single crystals and that of polycrystalline materials. In vacuum physics, students learn advanced vacuum generation in experimental instruments in labs. Data analysis and error calculations is a central key in experiments. At the end of this course students will be able to know why we need to learn about instruments and their basic principles of operation, what are their applications, what the challenges are for the technology.
by Dr. Muhammad Hasnain Jameel