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2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PHYS2330 Nanophysics and Nanotechnology

10 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: Dr Sally Peyman
Email: s.peyman@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

This course is highly mathematical in parts and requires students to have taken Level One physics and maths (or equivalent).

This module is approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module introduces students to the basic ideas and techniques in Nanoscale Physics.

Objectives

To introduce students to the basic ideas and techniques in Nanoscale Physics.

Skills outcomes
On completion the module you will be able to :
- Identify properties that emerge on the nanoscale;
- Explain the quantum nature of matter and its macroscopic realization;
- Describe experimental approaches to nanofabrication (bottom-up and top-down);
- Discuss in an informed way the current possibilities and limitation of nanotechnology.


Syllabus

Systematics of Making Things Smaller
- Limits of Smallness: learning from Biology
- Quantum Nature of the Nanoworld
- Quantum consequences for the Macroworld
- Self-Assembled Nanostructures
- Physics-based Experimental Approaches to Nanofabrication and Nanotechnology
- Carbon Based Electronics
- Looking into the Future

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Lecture221.0022.00
Private study hours78.00
Total Contact hours22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)100.00

Private study

- Reading lecture notes and books
- Solving problems.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Assignmentcontinuous assessment20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)20.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated


Exams
Exam typeExam duration% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)2 hr 00 mins80.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)80.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 06/03/2019

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