OBIETTIVI E CONTENUTI

OBIETTIVI FORMATIVI

Understanding the fundamentals of surface science. Capacity of reading scientific papers in surface science and applied surface science.

MODALITA' DIDATTICHE

Frontal Lectures (42 hours) and Laboratory Demonstrations (10 hours)

PROGRAMMA/CONTENUTO

Relevance of surfaces and interfaces in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Surface excess quantities and thermodynamical properties of surfaces. Crystallographic structure: relaxation and reconstruction. Electronic ground state properties of metals and surface states. Surface magnetism. Specific cases for semiconductor, oxide and insulator surfaces, graphene and other ultrathin films. Towards one and zero dimensions, atomic wires and clusters at surfaces. Excited states at surfaces: surface phonon spectra, surface electronic and magnetic excitations. Connections to plasmonics, Energy harvesting in solar cells and photoinduced chemistry. Gas-Surface interaction, physisorption and chemisorption, dynamics of the interaction, asdsoprtion, desorption, sticking and simple catalytic reactions. Crystal growth, MBE, CVD, Ablation techniques, Nanosized films and clusters. Self-assembled monolayers and artificial nanostructures. Experimental methods for surface science: Scanning Probe Microscopies, Surface Sensitive Spectroscopies and Diffraction Methods.

TESTI/BIBLIOGRAFIA

 “Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces” H.Ibach, Springer Verlag 2006. ISBN-13 978-3-540- 34709-5

“Surface Science: Foundations of Catalysis and Nanoscience” K.W. Kolasinski, J. Wiley and Sons, third edition, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-470-99781-9. 500 

LEZIONI

Orari delle lezioni

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ESAMI

MODALITA' D'ESAME

The commision will then ask to expose a different topic. Questions will be posed by the jury to assess the knowledge level of the studentThe students will be examined orally. They will expose a topic of their choice. 

MODALITA' DI ACCERTAMENTO

The students will be examined orally. They will expose a topic of their choice. The commission will then ask to expose a different topic. Questions will be posed by the jury to assess the knowledge level of basic concepts by the student. Sufficiency will be reached when the topics are exposed with proper language and the students demonstrates to have a basic understanding of the concepts assocaited to surface science.