Nanoscale Physics

1. Introduction: Size matters - new functionalities on the nanoscale

• Definitions
• Link: European Commission Recommendation on the definition of nanomaterial
• Link: SCENIHR: Scientific Basis for the Definition of the Term nanomaterial
• What is interesting about going 'nano'?
• Examples of size effects
• Link: US National Nanotechnology Initiative
• Link: IBM Website: What is Nanotechnology?

2. Visualizing small structures (Slides 1-30; Slides 30-78)

• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Link: Nobel prize 1986
• Link: Tutorial TEM, U Liverpool
• TEM: EDX, EELS
• Link: Rodenburg, Tutorials on TEM
• Scanning Elelectron Microscopy
• Link: Science Learning Network - How the SEM works
• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
• Link: IBM STM gallery
• AFM
• Link: Agilent AFM Website (one of various AFM companies)

3. Clusters and basics

• Link: Lycurgus cup, Nature Photonics 2007
• Synthesis
• Size selection
• Structure - magic numbers
• Adhesion, Gecko effect, Lptos effect
• Thomson model
• Metal clusters
• Jellium model
• Link: Lecture (advanced theory) on the Jellium model
• Link: Spina et al., Jellium model and beyond
• Electronic magic numbers

4. Optical Properties of nanostuctures

• Optical properties of semiconducting NPs
• Excitons
• Quantum size effect in semiconducting NPs
• Plasmons
• Surface plasmons
• Mie resonance
• Shape effects
• Review: V. Giannini et al., Nanoplasmonics, Small 2010

5. Magnetic nanostructures

• Exchange interaction, band magnetism
• Magnetic domains
• Surface magnetism
• Single domain magnets
• Superparamagnetism
• Link: Review Superparamagnetism, Kleemann et al., 2001
• Link: Review Biomedical applications of magnetic NPs, Q. Pankhurst 2003
• Magnetic imaging
• Magnetic hyperthermia
• Link: Nanomagnet-based anti-cancer therapy: MAGFORCE company
• Link: Magnetic hyperthermia @ KIP
• Magnetic data storage
• Magnetic cooling, magnetocaloric effect

6. Carbon nanostructures (part A / part B)

• Fullerens
• Hybridisation
• Link: Animation of hybridisation
• Link: Nobel prize chemistry 1996
• Link: Homepage Wolfgang Kätschmer am MPIK in Heidelberg
• Euler rule
• Isolated Pentagon Rule
• Endohedral doping
• Link: MPI IPP - Fullerens and organic photovoltaics
• Link: Fullerens: Basics & Research group IFW Dresden
• Link: Prices of Metallofullerens (Example)
• Link: Review Biomedical applucations of fullerens
• Carbon nanotubes
• Synthesis of CNT
• Electronic properties vs structure
• Characterisation: Raman
• Filling of CNT
• Applications of CNT