| Date | Lectures | Assignments | ||||||
| 09/26 | Review of semiconductor physics | HW 1 | PRL1980 | PRL1985 | PRL1988 | PRL1991 | ||
| 09/28 | Low-dimensional semiconductors: quantum wells, wires, dots. Quantized conductance.Coulomb blockade.Single electron transistor. | Nature1993 | Nature2000 | |||||
| 10/01 | Quantum Hall effect: integer, fractional.Aharonov-Bohm effect. | Fractional Charge Nature 1997 | ||||||
| 10/03 | Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Optoelectronic applications. | |||||||
| 10/05 | Metals: optical properties. Surface plasmon polariton. | HW 2 | Dielectric permittivity (for HW 2) | PRL2000 | Science2003 | Science2004 | Nature2003 | |
| 10/08 | Plasmon resonance in nanoparticles and arrays. | SPP in hole arrays (for HW 2) | PRL2001 | 5D imaging | Plasmon laser | Spaser | ||
| 10/10 | Photonic crystals.Metamaterials. | Optical circuits | Invisibility cloak | Bio photonic crystals | ||||
| 10/12 | Organic materials: intro. Graphene. | HW 3 | MEG in Pentacene | MEG in QDs | CNT | QHE in graphene:room | QHE in graphene | |
| 10/15 | Carbon nanotubes. | |||||||
| 10/19 | Organic vs inorganic semiconductors. | |||||||
| 10/22 | Scanning probe microscopy: STM, AFM. | AFM: adatom charge | AFM: bioelasticity | STM of graphene | STM: Ag clusters | |||
| 10/24 | Electron microscopy: TEM, SEM. | TEM: graphene | 4D electron microscopy | STM: Landau levels in graphene | ||||
| 10/26 | Optical microscopy. | Super-resolution review | NSOM review | |||||