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PHYS 824: Introduction to Nanophysics The 12-hour version of the course was offered at the National Taiwan University in March 2010 The 15-hour version of the course will be offered at the University of Belgrade, Serbia in June 2010

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Course Topics The course provides a hands-on experience for graduate students in sciences (physics, chemistry) and engineering (electrical, chemical, materials), as well as advanced undergraduates, to analyze electronic structure and transport properties of basic classes of carbon, semiconductor, and magnetic nanostructures explored at the current research frontiers. Nanostructures in equilibrium: graphene and other two-dimensional materials, carbon nanotubes, topological insulators, magnetic multilayers. Nanostructure out of equilibrium: conductance quantization, quantum interference, spin-dependent tunneling, spin and quantum Hall effects, spin-transfer torque, I-V curves. Theoretical techniques: elements of density functional theory (DFT), Landauer-Büttiker scattering formalism, nonequilibrium Green function techniques. Experimental techniques: scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy. Applications: nanoelectronics, spintronics, thermoelectrics.

News Final Project is posted and due on Friday 12/16 as poster presentation in Sharp Lab 225 at 2:00PM. Lecture in Progress Application of Landauer-Büttiker formula to quantum interference effects in electronic transport Quick Links KWANT package Mini-course on computational quantum transport via KWANT TKWANT package PythTB package KITE package ASE package GPAW package Online Spintronics seminar SPICE-SPIN+X seminars

Portion of the course material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECCS 0725566.

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