Frontiers in nanosciences

Content

Introduction to the concepts of nanoscale science                         
Review of electronic properties: from atoms to bulk                     
Confinement of electronic states                        
Imaging and manipulation at the atomic scale                         
Making the nanostructures: top-down and bottom-up approaches             
Advances in field-effect transistors (FETs): solid state devices (SSD), 2D-FETs            
Quantum transport in 1D, and in 0D (single-electron FET)                    
Magnetism at the nanoscale: magnetic data storage (HDD), introduction to spintronics
Throughout the lectures: experimental techniques