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The nanoscale offers material properties and device design strategies not possible at the macro- and micro-scale. In order to exploit new and advanced device strategies materials must be processed and devices fabricated at this technologically demanding scale. This course aims to explore the methods and design approaches required to realise advanced nanoscale semiconductor devices, along with the exciting new fields of nano-plasmonics and nano-fluidics. Does the seemingly never-ending drive to reduce critical dimensions in electronics, often described in terms of Moore’s law, have any ultimate limitations? Can nanoscale lab-on-a-chip fluidics give us unique capabilities in gene therapy, rapid DNA sequencing and even drug delivery systems? Will the field of nano-plasmonics assist us in point-of-care clinical screening, give us nano-antennas or even so-called ‘invisibility cloaks’ through the use of nano-meta-materials? These are questions that will be addressed in this advanced nanotechnology programme, along with many others.Ìý

This module will offer students the following learning outcomes:Ìý

•Ìý Describe advanced nanoscale material processing methodsÌý

•Ìý Apply knowledge of how to use nanoscale processed materials for the fabrication of nanosystem devicesÌý

•Ìý Demonstrate understanding of current and predicted future trends within nanoelectronics, both in the established silicon technology arena and with compound semiconductors and beyondÌý

• Describe how fluids may be handled in nanoscale structures, and the methods and means of constructing nanofluidic devicesÌý

• Connect the construction and properties of nanofluidic devices with the important and diverse range of applications for nanofluidic devices, both within the context of technology and medicineÌý

•Ìý Apply the fundamental properties of nanoparticles and nanostructured materials to plasmonics and evaluate the range of techniques, both bottom-up and top-down that can be used to fabrication nanoplasmonic devicesÌý

• Identify the properties of nanoplasmonic structures and devices that allow them to be used in the fields of sensing/biosensing, point-of-care clinical screening as well as other technologies such as enhanced performance solar cells.Ìý