Solid State Physics: Size dependence of properties, Energy bands, Localized particles;
Properties of individual particles: Metal nanoclusters, Semiconducting nanoparticles,
Rare gas and molecular clusters and methods of synthesis.
Methods of measuring properties: Structure, Microscopy and Spectroscopy.
Carbon nanostructures: Carbon molecule, Carbon clusters, Carbon nanotubes,
applications of Carbon nanotubes.
Bulk nanostructured materials: Solid disordered nanostructures, Nanostructured
Crystals. Nanostructured ferromagnetism: Basics of ferromagnetism, Effect of bulk
nano-structuring of magnetic properties, Dynamics of nanomagnets, Ferrofluids,
nanopores containment of magnetic particles, Nanocarbon ferromagnets, Giant and
Colossal magnetoresistance.
Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots: Preparation of quantum nanostructures, Size and
dimensionality effect, Excitons, Single electron tunnelling.
Applications: Nanomachines and Devices; Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS),
Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS), Molecular and Super molecular switches,
Magnetoelectronics. Applications: memory elements and devices, Nano magnetic
sensors and actuators.