Course Overview

The properties and applications of amorphous alloys, metallic thin films and nanostructured metals are shown for understanding the unique properties of nanostructured materials.

Learning Achievement

Lattice defects like point defects, dislocations and interfaces play important roles on macroscopic properties of crystalline materials. The importance become more obvious for nanostructured crystalline materials. The property of amorphous materials, which have no crystalline long-range order but with some short-range order, is another topic in the course. Students should understand how these long-range and short-range orders in the materials contribute on the macroscopic properties of the amorphous materials, thin films and nanostructure materials.

Competence

This subject is related to thinking skills that link experimental results with theory.

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

Intelligibility and learning level will be evaluated using the content of the report (Several problems or assignments are given in the lecture).

Course schedule

Amorphous materials: Short-range order in atoms and the relating properties
Metallic interconnects: Dimensions/texture and life-time
Thin multilayered metallic film: Magnetoresistance and super modulus effect
Nanocrystalline metals: Unique properties owing to the much increased fraction of grain boundaries
Metallic nanoparticles: Surface effects and characteristic properties due to collective motion of free electrons
The lecture is given by Online(Asynchronous);the video is uploaded at Teams for two days.
1:Amorphous materials
2:Atomic packing of amorphous state
3:Packing state of amorphous alloys
4:Local structure and collective motion
5:Conductivity of amorphous alloys
6:Amorphous semiconductors
7:Conductivity of amorphous semiconductors
8:Various nanostructured materials
9:Properties of nanostructured materials
10:Fracral and percolation
11:Electromigration
12:Charactersitic properties of thin multilayered films
13:Ultrafine polycrystalline (nanocrystalline) materials
14:Charactersitic properties of nanocrystalline materials
15:property and structure of grain boundaries
16:Grain boundaries in nanocrystalline materials
17:Metallic nanoparticles
18:Preparation of nanoparticles
19:Characterisitc properties of nanoparticles
20:Optical property of non-spherical nanoparticles

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

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