SYLLABUS
OSAKA UNIVERSITY SHORT-TERM STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM _

05s-05
INTRODUCTION TO MATERIAL PHYSICS

Kazumasa MIYAKE et al. (Graduate School of Engineering Science)

Objective
  This course provides an introduction to theoretical and experimental aspects of material physics including the latest outstanding results. The course is aimed to realize that material physics is indispensable in developing modern technologies such as electronics, optics, medical sensing, etc. as well as in getting physical insight for attractive material phenomena such as superconductivity, magnetism, phase transition, laser action, etc. Completion of introductory courses in quantum mechanics and electromagnetism is assumed.

Textbook
No particular textbook is used. Materials will be provided.

Lecture Outline
Wonder of Electrical Conduction
Frontier of Superconductivity and its application to technology
A New Periodic Table for Superconductivity under High Pressure
Synchrotron radiation
Circularly polarized light and magnetism
Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy
Manipulation of light - matter interaction
Nanoscience and Photophysics
Methods in Computational Physics for Materials Science
Molecular Beam Epitaxy for Growing Semiconductor Nanostructures
Light emitting diodes
Magnetic Resonance: a unique diagnostic tool for human body and condensed matters
A story of spin
Spin electronics
Quantum cryptology

Grading
Class participation 50%
Term paper, presentation and discussion 50%

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