Introduction to Nanotechnology: From Materials to Applications

24-28 November 2008

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Course Overview

To provide students with:

(i)      an appreciation of the background, applications  and current status of nanotechnology and nanomaterials including    societal and safety implications

(ii)     an understanding of relevant basic scientific principles underpinning nanotechnology

(iii)    an appreciation of some important nanomaterials, growth, characterization and their applications

(iv) an appreciation of relevant tools and processes for measuring and characterizing nanosize objects.

Short Course Content

1. Introduction and basic theory (*)
  (i) Overview of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology in society and current issues.

  (ii) Quantum nature of matter. Electron energy levels. Solving simple quantum problems.

  (iii) Electron field emission and display technology.

2. Nanomaterials
  (i)Length scales, top-down and bottom-up approaches to nanotechnology. Common growth methods of materials.

  (ii)Properties and applications of selected nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes, other carbon based materials, nanotube sensors and metallic nanoclusters and nanowires.

3. Scanning Probe Microscopy
  (i) Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, Equipment, operation modes.

  (ii) Atomic and molecular manipulation – lateral manipulation, vertical manipulation.

4. Tools of Nanotechnology: Electron, Ion based methods and Lithography
  (i) Electron and ion sources, Field-ion microscope and atom-probe, Focused ion beam.

  (ii) High-resolution electron microscopy including aberration corrected TEM.

  (iii) Lithography, X-Ray, proton beam, microbeam techniques.

* An overview of nanotechnology as well as revision material on quantum effects will be given on Monday 24th November. Participants with a strong background in quantum effects may chose to opt out of Monday’s lectures.

The Lecturers

Dr David Carey (Course Director) is a Lecturer in Electronic Engineering specializing in Nanotechnology and nanomaterials in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences based in the Advanced Technology Institute of the University of Surrey. From 2002-2007 he held a prestigious EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship researching in the area of nanomaterials as electron sources and carbon based electronics. He has carried out extensive research in the electronic characterisation of a range of electronic materials, particularly diamond-like carbon thin films and carbon nanotubes. Dr Carey has published over 60 peer reviewed research papers and invited review articles and is a Chartered Physicist, Member of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and a Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE). He was co-organizer of the first Expanding the Frontiers of Nanotechnology meeting held in London (Sept. 2003). He was the Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the Journal of Material Science: Materials in Electronics on Carbon based Electronic Materials (June 2006). He is also the programme director of the MSc in Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronic Devices at Surrey and Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology.
Web address: http://www.ati.surrey.ac.uk/profiles?s_name=David_Carey

Professor Ravi Silva, FREng is the Director of the Advanced Technology Institute, which houses the solid-state electronics and physics activities within the University of Surrey. It is part of the 5** research rated Department of Electronic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He also heads the Nanoelectronics Centre, which is an integral part of the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI). His research interests encompass a wide range of activities. Nano-Electronics and renewables are two themes that are very important to the research. His research has resulted in over 250 presentations at international conferences, and over 200 journal papers including recent publications in Nature Materials on the low temperature growth of carbon nanofibres and high speed and memory effects in amorphous carbon quantum well structures.
In 2002 he was awarded the Charles Vernon Boys Medal by the Institute of Physics, and in 2003 he was awarded the IEE Achievement Award by the Institute of Electrical Engineers. In 2003 he was also awarded the Albert Einstein Silver Medal and Javed Husain Prize by UNESCO for contributions to electronic devices. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In April 2003 he was the PI associated with the largest EPSRC Portfolio award (£6M) for his work in Integrated Electronics. This was followed in Oct. 2003 by a SRIF award for £4M to set up a Nano-Electronics Centre for multi-disciplinary research. In 2004, he and colleagues at BAE Systems were awarded the BAE Chairman’s Bronze Award for Innovation and Implementation. In 2005, together with colleagues at Dundee University, he co-founded a university spin-out, Quantum Filament Technologies Ltd with VC funding from Braveheart. Prof. Silva also sits on the advisory board of Imprimatur Capital Ltd and is in the process of spinning out a nanotechnology company at present. He is the holder of 12 patents and a member of the forthcoming RAE assessment board for electronic engineering.

Professor Rosalind Malcolm, Barrister-at-Law, Middle Temple
Rosalind Malcolm is the Head of the School of Law at Surrey and writes on aspects of environmental and environmental health law. Her most recent publications include Food Safety Enforcement published in 2005 by Chadwick House Publishing and Statutory Nuisance: Law and Practice published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. Both were written with co-author John Pointing. She is currently writing a book: Environmental Product Policy: a legal perspective to be published by Ashgate Publishing in 2006.

Rosalind is also a member of barristers' chambers at Guildford Chambers, Guildford, Surrey and an associate member of the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey. Rosalind is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences on environmental law and policy. She sits on an expert research review panel for the Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs. She organises continuing professional training (www.surrey.ac.uk/Law/cpd) for environmental and commercial lawyers and environmental health professionals at the University of Surrey. Her areas of research interest lie in Environmental Health Law and Environmental Law. Current projects include the legal implementation and application in the UK of the European approach to Integrated Product Policy and the implementation of European regulations on food safety law in the UK

Dr Richard Curry is a Lecturer in Nanotechnology having obtained a BSc in Theoretical Physics and a PhD in Physics from Queen Mary University of London in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He continued to carry out research at Queen Mary as an EPSRC Research Associate until 2001 when he moved the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton as a Research Fellow. In 2003 he co-founded ChG Southampton Ltd to commercialise his research and in 2004 was appointed a London Technology Network Business Fellow. His research interests are generally based around the study and development of organic and hybrid material systems for applications in optical and electronic devices. In particular his research has included the development and study of organometallic and organolanthanide complexes for applications in near-infrared optical devices. Other research includes the study of hybrid organic-quantum dots systems for their use in emitting and photovoltaic devices.

Dr Vlad Stolojan is Roberts University Fellow at Surrey specialising in high resolution electron microscopy, especially electron microscopy and has pioneered the use of plasmon imaging of interfaces. His research interests include all forms of nanowire and nanotube structure.

Timetable

Introduction to Nanotechnology    

24-28 November 2008

Large Seminar Room,

Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey

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