2nd Edition
Introductory Nanoscience Physical and Chemical Concepts
1 Introduction 2 Structure 3 Length Scales 4 Types of Nanostructures 5 Absorption and Emission Basics 6 A Quantum Mechanics Review 7 Model Quantum Mechanics Problems 8 Additional Model Problems 9 Density of States 10 Bands 11 Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory 12 Interband Transitions 13 Synthesis 14 Characterization 15 Applications
Biography
Masaru Kuno earned his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by an NRC postdoctoral fellowship at JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame working on the synthesis and optical microscopy of solution-based semiconductor nanowires.
Sushrut Ghonge completed his undergraduate studies in Engineering Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He then earned his PhD in Physics and Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2024, advised by Boldizsar Janko and Masaru Kuno. He is a theoretical physicist, and his research interests lie in quantum optics, quantum thermodynamics, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
