2020/2021

2021/2022

DM270

FIS/03 (MATERIAL PHYSICS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Fisica della materia

2°

1st semester (04/10/2021 - 19/01/2022)

6

56 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

PATRINI MADDALENA (titolare) - 3 ECTS
GALINETTO PIETRO - 3 ECTS

Basics of Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, and Physics and Chemistry of matter

Illustrate the physical bases and experimental problems typical of solid state spectroscopies, in relation to the different types of materials and their applications. The aim of the course is to provide the student with the critical ability to choose the most appropriate procedures and techniques for the study of the material under examination, to analyze its structural, compositional, optical, electronic and vibrational properties.

General topics concerning spectroscopy are first presented: radiation-matter interaction, the dielectric function of materials, classical and quantum treatments of optical transitions, vibrational response, excitations in solids. Specific optical spectroscopies and their application in materials are then illustrated: reflectance, transmittance, absorbance with spectrophotometers; spectroscopic ellipsometry; Raman scattering, luminescence and excitation spectroscopies; electronic paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy; time-resolved spectroscopies. Complementary techniques for topographic and morphological imaging, such as scanning probe microscopies (electron, force, electric, magnetic microscopies) are also presented.

The course program includes both lectures and laboratory experiments on the materials of interest for basic and applied research.

H. Kuzmany Solid State Spectroscopy: an introduction (Springer 2009)
Handbook of Spectroscopy, G. Gauglitz & T. Vo-Dinh editors (Wiley, 2003)
and other material provided by the teachers.

Oral examination. In the first part, the student must expose in a concise way his own report on the results of a spectroscopic methodology/technique (among those object of the course, making use of one or more scientific publications, agreed with the teachers), proving to know the physical fundamentals, the involved materials and the experimental problems. In the second part the student must demonstrate an adequate knowledge of the topics covered in the course and not included in the above presentation.