12 weeks during semester One or Two

Hawthorn

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Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

 A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate of Engineering (Advanced Manufacturing Technology), Master of Technology (Advanced Manufacturing Technology), Master of Engineering (Advanced Manufacturing Technology) and Master of Engineering (Advanced Manufacturing Technology) (Honours).

Aims & Objectives:

To provide knowledge to students to select appropriate nanofabrication methods for their research and to enable them to understand and evaluate methods of nanofabrication as needed to assess the potential impact (technological, economic and societal) of nanotechnologies and fabrication methods.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures, Tutorial, Hands-on Laboratory Sessions, Guest Lectures, Other research laboratories

Assessment:

Assignments 15%, Laboratory 15%, Examination 70%

Content:

• Nanofabrication and Nanolithography Fundamentals. Limitations of Microlithography, Need for new technologies, Elements of soft lithography - self assembled monolayers, e-beam and focused ion beam writing, micro contact printing and Micro transfer molding.
• Nano replication and manufacturing technologies, rapid prototyping
• Characterization of nano structures - STM/AFM, Surface Raman Scattering, wettability (contact angle) measurements, small x-ray diffraction and electron diffraction
• Nano carbon tubes, Nano wires, Nano materials, nanoparticles, solgels, and applications.
• Nano devices and applications.

Reading Materials:

M. Gentili, C. Giovannella, S. Selci (Editor) Nanolithography: A Borderland Between Stm, Eb, Ib, and X-Ray Lithographies (NATO Asi Series. Series E: Applied Sciences, Vol 264), 1994, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Harvey C. Hoch, Lynn W. Jelinski, Harold G. Craighead (Ed.),Nano fabrication and biosystems: integrating materials science, engineering, and biology, Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996
Poole Charles P., Introduction to Nanotechnology, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2003