Course Overview

This course will focus on the fundamental physics and physics of transport in nanoscale materials such as semiconductors and superconductors in order to understand the physical processes for nanotechnology.

Learning Achievement

(1) To understand and acquire the basic physical properties, transport phenomena, and their measurement techniques necessary for the development of nanotechnology from both experimental and theoretical aspects.
(2) Understand the physical properties of Bose particles, Fermi particles, and quasiparticles in semiconductors and superconductors, and learn their applications to transport phenomena in nanoscale materials.

Competence

On knowledge creativity, basic engineering skills, and basic academic skills.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Evaluation will be made comprehensively based on reports and assignments.

Course schedule

Introduction
Photophysical properties of excitons
Photophysical properties of polarons
Photophysical properties of plasmon
Intermediate report assignment (Hase)
Metal-insulator transition
Electronic states
Fermi Particle
Bose particle
Superconductivity

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Hase Muneaki,Takano Yoshihiko

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university