Lecture
Crystal growth:
Physics, technology, and modeling
Academic year 2024-2025
Semester I
Stanisław Krukowski,
Michał Leszczyński
IWC PAN, Sokołowska 29/37 01-142 Warszawa
Zbigniew Żytkiewicz
IF PAN, Al. Lotników 32-46 02-668 Warszawa
http://w3.unipress.waw.pl/~stach/cg-2024-25/
The development of information technologies,
includes the design and fabrication of new electronic devices of nanometer
size, the emergence of new molecular diagnostic techniques (e.g. for medical
purposes) requires understanding of the basics of the methods of design and
fabrication of the new materials and structures. This course will cover
problems of the understanding, design, fabrication and determination of the
properties of nano-structures and nano-materials, forming an introduction to
nanotechnology. Therefore the subject of the lecture will be devoted to the
basic methods of crystal growth, both volumetric, at the macro scale, and quantum
structures of the dimensions in micro and nano range. Currently, courses in
physics, chemistry or material engineering in Poland, both in Warsaw and in
other cities, do not include lectures on the fundamentals of crystal growth.
Therefore the students working in these areas need additional training. The
program proposed below includes a course in the fundamentals of crystal growth
(especially of semiconductors), both from a theoretical point of view and a
review of the main growth techniques and characterization methods. We assume
that this course will not be an exhaustive description of the subject. Instead,
it will provide a sufficient foundation for understanding the field, while
providing a good starting point for further independent study in the future
research work. The course is intended for PhD students that they have mastered
the basics of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and solid state physics
at the university level. At the end of the year-long lecture series we foresee
a visit of the students to the crystal growth laboratories of the Institute of
Physics PAS and the Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS in Warsaw. This will
allow interested students to familiarize themselves with the existing
experimental facilities and with details of the research work in progress.
The lectures will be given on Mondays at 15.00 in the premises of the
Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences.
The links in the title will provide access to pdf file of the lecture.
Usually this will be in the preceding week. The student could download the
lecture and look BEFORE the lecture. The students are strongly encouraged to do
that.
Any students interested in physics and technology, from Warsaw4PhD
School, but also from other partner institutions in Warsaw are invited to the
lecture.
The inauguration of the Academic Year 2024-25 is planned on Monday
October 7th 2024, therefore the first lecture is scheduled week
later, i.e. Monday October 14th 2024.
I. Growth of crystals and epitaxial structures
II. Characterization of crystals and epitaxial
structures