Surface Physics
7.5 ECTS creditsInstruction is in the form of lectures, seminars, and mandatory laboratory assignments.
Course content:
Course content:
- Introduction to vacuum technology.
- The atomic structure of surfaces. Reconstruction and relaxation. Structural research methods, especially electron diffraction. Preparation of surfaces, growth of ultra-thin films.
- The electronic structure of surfaces. Spectroscopic research methods, especially photoemission, theory of angle-resolved photoemission. Surface band structure and surface states of various metal- and semiconductor surfaces.
- Band bending and Fermi-level pinning of semiconductor surfaces. Metal-semiconductor interfaces, semiconductor heterostructures, the Schottky barrier. Introduction to collective phenomena on surfaces and in interfaces, especially superconductivity and ferromagnetism.
- Adsorption and chemical reactions on surfaces.
Progressive specialisation:
A1N (has only first‐cycle course/s as entry requirements)
Education level:
Master's level
Admission requirements:
Physics, 60 ECTS credits, including Solid State Physics, 7.5 ECTS credits, and Mathematics, 35 ECTS credits, plus upper secondary level English 6 or English level 2, or equivalent.
Selection:
Selection is usually based on your grade point average from upper secondary school or the number of credit points from previous university studies, or both.
This course is included in the following programme
- Master of Science in Engineering Physics (studied during year 4)
- Master's Programme in Physics - Nanomaterials (studied during year 1)
- Master of Science in Engineering, Degree Programme in Engineering Physics (studied during year 1)