Thomas Markus Ihn: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2012

Name Prof. Dr. Thomas Markus Ihn
FieldExperimentalphysik
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
E-mailihn@phys.ethz.ch
URLhttps://nano.phys.ethz.ch/
DepartmentPhysics
RelationshipAdjunct Professor and Privatdozent

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
402-0240-00LAdvanced Physics Laboratory II Information 9 credits18PC. Grab, T. M. Ihn
AbstractThis 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.
ObjectiveStudents should learn how to perform a bit more complex experiments, analyze the data and interpret the results.
402-0530-00LMesoscopic Systems0 credits1ST. M. Ihn
AbstractResearch colloquium
Objective
402-0596-00LElectronic Transport in Nanostructures Information 6 credits2V + 1UT. M. Ihn
AbstractThe 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.
Objective
Lecture notesThe 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 / NoticeA 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.