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Spectroscopy of Nanostructures

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-3160/01
Abbreviation SN
Course title Spectroscopy of Nanostructures
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Mgr. Kamil Postava

Osnova předmětu

The subject deals with methods, physical description and appliications of optical spectroscopy. The lectures consists of:
1. Physical principles of optical spectroscopy, origin of spectral dependence of optical parameters, Kramers-Kronigovy relations and its application in spectroscopy.
2. Modeling of light propagation, reflection, transmission, and absorption spectra of materials, thin films, and nanostructures.
3. Dispersion elements, gratings, doispersion prism, interference methods in infrared spectroscopy, time-domain spectroscopy. Sources, detectors and materials used in spectrometers.
4. Spectroscopy in visible, near ultraviolet and near infrared spectral range (components of spectrometers, dual beam spectrometer, resolution).
5. Spectroscopic ellipsometry, ellipsometric angles, generalized and Mueller matrix ellipsometry, methods of data processing.
6. Spectroscopy in mid infrared spectral range (physical origin of infrared absorptions, vibration spectra, symmetry, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, apodization, ATR, IRRAS), Raman spektroscopy.
7. Magneto-optical spectroscopy (origin of magneto-optical effects, Kerr, Faraday, and Voight magneto=optic effects).
8. Origin of optical spectra from free charges, drude term, relation with electrical properties of materials. Debye model, absorption of polar liquids.
9. Model of damped harmonic oscillator, application for description of interband transitions and for vibration spectra in infrared spectroscopy.
10. Semiclasical theory of optical spectra of crystals, band structure, polycrystalline and amorphous materials, excitons.
11. Origin of infrared vibration and rotation spectra.
12. Models of nanostructured and nanokomposite materials. Application of effective medium theory, Maxwell-Garnet a Bruggeman formula. Description of periodic and aperiodic systems, plasmonics.

Povinná literatura

HOLLAS, J. M., Modern Spectroscopy (4th ed.), John Willey & Sons, 2009.
FOX, M., Optical properties of solids, Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
STENZEL, O., The physics of thin film optical spectra, Springer, Berlin, 2005.
PALIK, E. D., Handbook of optical constants of solids, Academic Press, New York, 1998.

Doporučená literatura

OHLÍDAL, I., FRANTA, D.: Ellipsometry of thin film systems, In: Progress in Optics, Vol. 41, Ed. E. Wolf, 2000.
ZVEZDIN, A. K., KOTOV, V. A.: Modern magnetooptics and magnetooptical materials, IOP, Bristol 1977.
HRING, M., The material science of thin films, Academic Press, 1992.
MACLEOD, H. A.: Thin-film optical filters, 2nd ed. Bristol, 1986.
YEH, P.: Optical waves in layered media, Willey, New York 1988.
LUTH, H., Solid surfaces, interfaces and thin films, Springer, Berlin 2001.
AZZAM, R. M. A., BASHARA, N. M.: Ellipsometry and polarized light, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1977.
SVANBERG, S.: Atomic and molecular spectroscopy: basic aspects and practical applications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1991.