2. General information

Lecturer and course responsible

Mats Göthelid, Materialfysik, ICT, Electrum 229 16440 Kista, tel 790 4154, gothelid@ kth.se

Literature

“Introduction to Surface, interfaces and thin films”, H. Lüth, Springer Verlag

“Examples in Surface Science” M. Göthelid

Selected overview papers on specific topics (indicated at each lecture below and handed out during the course) 

Level: Advanced. The course is intended for 4th -5th year students, graduate students in Physics, Microelectronics, Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Materials Engineering, Electrical engineering

Course requirements

The course is examined by a home-exam that is handed out at the first lecture. It contains problems from all parts of the course. Each problem is “multi-leveled” where each level requires different levels of understanding/problem solving abilities.

Selected topics will be presented by the students in mini-conferences. Presentation and the written “lecture notes” are evaluated by the other students and are required to pass the course.

Some of the experimental methods presented in the course will be offered as lab-work. Each student should participate in at least two lab-sessions and write a lab-report on each.

Grading scale: A-F

The result on the home-exam determines the grade. The lab-reports give additional points on the exam result. Each problem is multi-leveled and could contain (for example)

Level 1) describe a method or a phenomenon, both a physical and an experimental description. What are the most relevant parameters? What information can you extract?

Level 2) compare different methods, propose an experimental plan to get desired information

Level 3) extract and judge relevant information from published research papers

Level 4) Calculate numerical values from given experimental data

To achieve grade A the student should master 90% problems on levels 1 and 2 and 90% of the problems on levels 3 and 4

To achieve grade E the student should master 90% problems on levels 1 and 2, and 50% on levels 3 and 4.

Pre-requisits: Solid State Physics (Kittel or equivalent)

Svenskt kursnamn: Ytfysik

Course name english: Surface Physics

Course code: IM2652

Credits: 6

Language: english