Thomas Markus Ihn: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2012 |
Name | Prof. Dr. Thomas Markus Ihn |
Field | Experimentalphysik |
Address | Laboratorium für Festkörperphysik ETH Zürich, HPF E 15.1 Otto-Stern-Weg 1 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
Telephone | +41 44 633 22 80 |
Fax | +41 44 633 11 46 |
ihn@phys.ethz.ch | |
URL | https://nano.phys.ethz.ch/ |
Department | Physics |
Relationship | Adjunct Professor and Privatdozent |
Number | Title | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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402-0240-00L | Advanced Physics Laboratory II | 9 credits | 18P | C. Grab, T. M. Ihn | |
Abstract | This laboratory course provides basic experimental skill training for performing physics experiments, including: Implementation of physics experiments using an instruction manual. Planning, designing, realizing, analyzing, and interpreting experiments. Estimating measurement precision. | ||||
Objective | Students should learn how to perform a bit more complex experiments, analyze the data and interpret the results. | ||||
402-0530-00L | Mesoscopic Systems | 0 credits | 1S | T. M. Ihn | |
Abstract | Research colloquium | ||||
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402-0596-00L | Electronic Transport in Nanostructures | 6 credits | 2V + 1U | T. M. Ihn | |
Abstract | The lecture discusses basic quantum phenomena occurring in electron transport through nanostructures: Drude theory, Landauer-Buttiker theory, conductance quantization, Aharonov-Bohm effect, weak localization/antilocalization, shot noise, integer and fractional quantum Hall effects, tunneling transport, Coulomb blockade, coherent manipulation of charge- and spin-qubits. | ||||
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Lecture notes | The lecture is based on the book: T. Ihn, Semiconductor Nanostructures: Quantum States and Electronic Transport, ISBN 978-0-19-953442-5, Oxford University Press, 2010. | ||||
Prerequisites / Notice | A solid basis in quantum mechanics, electrostatics, quantum statistics and in solid state physics is required. Students of the Master in Micro- and Nanosystems should at least have attended the lecture by David Norris, Introduction to quantum mechanics for engineers. They should also have passed the exam of the lecture Semiconductor Nanostructures. The lecture will be given in English. |