PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO MATERIALS

The aim of the course is to provide to the students of the final year of the Master in Chemistry of Materials a number of examples, technologically relevant in the fields of science and technology of materials, of physico-chemical methodologies applied to preparation, modification and characterization methods of functional materials. In particular, the course will propose topics related to micro- and nanoelectronics, to photovoltaic technologies as well as to the preparation of functional surfaces and interfaces of interest in the integration processes of components of complex devices.

Metodhs for materials micro- and nano-structuring

• Patterning methodologies - Top-down and bottom-up approach to patterning - Introduction to Lithographic methods - Optical lithography - E-beam and ion-beam based lithography - Soft lithography - Printing methodologies - Self-organization methods - Cold Plasma methodologies.

• Spatially- resolved techniques to characterize thin films and surfaces - Scanning Probe Microscopies: AFM, STM, SNOM - Ion and electron-beam-based techniques - Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - Low Energy Ion and atom Scattering Spectroscopy - Photoelectron spectoscopy - .

Due to the non conventional character of the course, which pay a particular attention to technologies and methodologies in continuous evolution, there is no available textbook on the topics of the course. Accordingly, the students will receive lecture notes and research articles from specialzed Journals.