35113 - Nanoelectronics (2nd Cycle)

Academic Year 2010/2011

  • Docente: Marco Tartagni
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: ING-INF/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Biomedical Engineering (cod. 8198)

Learning outcomes

Specifically, the 3 CFU program of "Nanoelettronica" in the ""Sensori & Nanoelettronica" course will be devoted to the principles of sensor transduction that happens at microscopic and nanoscopic level. The student will learn the basic transduction principles gaining insights of the main laboratory instruments for both biotechnology and ICT applications.

NOTE: the course is complementary and independent from the first part of the course "Nanoelettronica" held by prof. Fiegna and particularly focused on the issues of Bioengineering.

Course contents

The course is aimed at giving the main theoretical instruments to understand the sensor transuction at microscale and nanoscale level. The contents will then be used in the context of protocols and instruments for biomedical and ICT laboratories.
NOTE: the course is complementary and independent from the first part of the course "Nanoelettronica" held by prof. Fiegna and particularly focused on the issues of Bioengineering.

  • Photon-electron transduction. Photon interaction with matter. Quantum efficiency and spectral sensitivity.
  • Ion-electron tranduction. Metal-liquid interface and interfacial states. Impedimetric characteristics of the interface.
  • Electrical and magnetic polarization of the matter.
  • Piezoelectricity and mechanical transduction.
  • Nanosensors: nanopores, nanotubes, nanowires, graphene, bolometers.
  • Instruments: optical and electron microscope; Atomic force microscope (AFM).

Readings/Bibliography

Physical principles:
R. Feynman et al., The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison Wesley, 1963
Electrochemistry/Electrokinetics:
J. Bockris, A. Reddy, Modern Electrochemistry-2 Electrodics, Plenum, 1998
H. Morgan, N. Green, AC Electrokinetics: colloids and nanoparticles, RSP Press, 2001
Microfluidics & Microfabrication:
M. Madou, Fundamentals of Microfabrication, CRC Press, 2002
N.T. Nguyen, S. Wereley, Fundamentals and Application of Microfluidics, Artech, 2002

Teaching methods

Public lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Lessons with possible aid of slides that will be available to all students.

Office hours

See the website of Marco Tartagni