Experimental Techniques in Nanotechnology

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics: Electron Confinement, Particle in a box, Particle in a Coulomb Potential, Tunneling of a particle through Potential Barrier,  Density of states for zero, one, two and three dimensional materials, Quantum confinement, Various factors depending on the particle size, Excitons, Idea of quantum well structure, quantum dots, quantum wires. Electronic conduction mechanism in nanoparticles.

Synthesis of Nanomaterials -I: Physical Methods- High Energy Ball Milling, Melt Mixing, Physical Vapour Deposition, Ionized Cluster Beam Deposition, Laser Ablation, DC and RF Sputtering, Magnetron Sputtering, ECR Plasma Deposition, Ion Beam Techniques, Molecular Beam Epitaxy.

Synthesis of Nanomaterials-II: Chemical Method- Colloids and colloids in solution, Nucleation and growth of Nanoparticles, Synthesis of metal and semiconductor nanoparticles by colloidal route,Langmuir-Blodgett method, Microemulsions, Sol-Gel method.    

Analysis Techniques I: Diffraction Techniques- X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Microscopy-Optical and Confocal Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM).

Analysis Technique -II: Spectroscopy- Optical Absorption Spectrometer, Infrared Spectrometer, Dispersive Infrared Spectrometer, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR), Raman Spectroscopy, Photoluminescence Spectrometer, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (XPS), Auger Electron Spectroscopy.