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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: electronic structure of graphene and other two-dimensional materials, carbon nanotubes, topological insulators, magnetic multilayers. Nanostructure out of equilibrium: quantum transport effects, such as conductance quantization, signatures of quantum interference in conductance, spin-dependent tunneling, spin and quantum Hall effects, spin torque, I-V curves. Theoretical techniques: semi-empirical tight-binding models, density functional theory (DFT) for first-principles modeling, Landauer-Büttiker scattering formalism, nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF), NEGF+DFT techniques. Experimental techniques: scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy. Applications: nanoelectronics, spintronics, thermoelectrics.

News Final Project is posted and is due on 12/15 as a poster. Starting 10/14, we move to new classrooms, Ewing 210 on TuTh and Colburn 046 on W. Lecture in Progress Application of NEGF and NEGF+DFT to magnetic tunnel junctions 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

ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Portion of the course material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ECCS 0725566. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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