Academic Catalog

PHYS557 INTRODUCTION TO NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Course Code: 2300557
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Physics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. ÞAKÝR ERKOÇ
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

General features of nanoscience and nanotechnology, experimental techniques for characterization of nanosystems, fabrications of nanosystems, atomistic simulations of nanosystems, methods of quantum calculations for nanosystems, types of nanoscale materials and their properties, physics of atomic and molecular clusters and nanoparticles, carbon Nanostructures, applications of nanotechnology.