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Limits of lithography |
Overview of selected examples of organic and hybrid self-assembly, and of the methods of their characterization; milestones in miniaturization – brief history of device miniaturization by lithographic methods; Moore’s law; invention of STM. |
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Thermodynamics of self-assembly 1 |
Thermodynamic basis of self-assembly – classical and statistical thermodynamics of molecules, crystals, liquids, liquid crystals and polymers, order and disorder, partition function and thermodynamic functions for single-component molecular systems, phase diagrams (single component, binary, ternary), miscibility, binodal and spinodal decomposition. |
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Thermodynamics of self-assembly 2 |
Thermodynamic basis of self-assembly – classical and statistical thermodynamics of molecules, crystals, liquids, liquid crystals and polymers, order and disorder, partition function and thermodynamic functions for single-component molecular systems, phase diagrams (single component, binary, ternary), miscibility, binodal and spinodal decomposition. |
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Thermodynamics of self-assembly 2 |
Thermodynamic basis of self-assembly – classical and statistical thermodynamics of molecules, crystals, liquids, liquid crystals and polymers, order and disorder, partition function and thermodynamic functions for single-component molecular systems, phase diagrams (single component, binary, ternary), miscibility, binodal and spinodal decomposition. |
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Thermodynamics of self-assembly 3 |
, Thermodynamic basis of self-assembly – classical and statistical thermodynamics of molecules, crystals, liquids, liquid crystals and polymers, order and disorder, partition function and thermodynamic functions for single-component molecular systems, phase diagrams (single component, binary, ternary), miscibility, binodal and spinodal decomposition. |
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Thermodynamics of self-assembly 4 |
Thermodynamic basis of self-assembly – classical and statistical thermodynamics of molecules, crystals, liquids, liquid crystals and polymers, order and disorder, partition function and thermodynamic functions for single-component molecular systems, phase diagrams (single component, binary, ternary), miscibility, binodal and spinodal decomposition. |
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Intermolecular forces |
Interatomic and intermolecular force |
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Introduction to liquid crystals |
Long- and short-range order, correlation function, disordered crystals (ordered, conformationally and orientationally disordered, plastic); liquid crystal self-assembly – thermotropic and lyotropic, thermodynamic basis (partition f), structure and phase transitions, |
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Optics and self-assembly |
Optical properties and optical characterization techniques - including general background on interaction of polarized light with matter: birefringence, liquid crystal textures in polarized light, curvature elasticity |
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Liquid crystal displays |
TN and STN LC displays, multiplexing, active matrix; in-plane switching and VAN; ferroel. LCD; |
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Helical and polymeric liquid crystals, dichroism and ellipsometry |
Cholesterics – thermochromic devices, filters and lasers; polymer-dispersed LC; side-chain LCP and LC elastomers. Optical activity, linear and circular dichroism, helical self-assembly, ellipsometry. |
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Complex 2-d and 3-d structures in soft materials |
LCs and block copolymers with 2- and 3-d periodicity - complex self-assembly on the mesoscale; basic crystallography in 2 and 3 dimensions: unit cell, Miller indices, crystal systems, symmetry elements, point groups, Bravais lattices. |
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Elements of crystallography |
Plane groups and space groups. Basic diffraction theory, reciprocal lattice, Ewald sphere and Braggs law. Single crystal, fiber and powder diffraction. |
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X-ray and neutron scattering |
X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques for studying self-assembly – principles of scattering; electron density and scattering length density distributions; small-angle X-ray amd meutron scattering (SAXS and SANS); scattering on periodic and nonperiodic systems: liquid crystals, semicrystalline polymers, block copolymers, polymer blends |
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Organic optoelectronics and surface techniques |
Surfaces and thin layers: grazing incidence WAXS and SAXS; X-ray and neutron reflectivity; Self-assembled monolayers. Conducting polymers, OLEDs, polymer photovoltaic cells, basics of surface patterning for plastic electronics. |
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Summary and revision |
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