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Graduate Lecture Series 29 June – 3 July, 2009 Prof Ngee-Pong Chang. Quantum Physics Underlying Modern Technology. Lecture 1 Quantum Physics Overview. NanoScience.
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Graduate Lecture Series 29 June – 3 July, 2009 Prof Ngee-Pong Chang Quantum Physics Underlying Modern Technology Lecture 1 Quantum Physics Overview
NanoScience A SCANNING microscope image of platinum-lace nanoballs. Liposomes aggregate, providing a foamlike template for a platinum sheet to grow.
5 x 5 mm image 50 nm Z scale Nano-scale Tic-Tac-Toe scratched into polycarbonateLine widths are ~ 40 nm
Quantum Dots 10-6 m
Max Planck 1858 - 1947
A plaque at Humboldt University, Berlin, commemorating Max Planck as "discoverer of the elementary quantum of action h," who "taught in this building" from 1889 to 1928
Progress of Technology: Replacing the real & messy with the clean & convenient Log in the Fireplace Superlog
Wien’s Law 1893 1864 - 1928
Rayleigh-Jeans Law 1900 1842 - 1919 1877 - 1046
Birth of Quantum Physics M. Planck, Annalen der Physik, vol 4, 553 (1901) Blackbody Radiation
Standing Waves in a Cavity Polarization vector 2 Polarization states Standing Wave condition
Standing Wave Condition or octant
Average Energy Boltzmann Probability Distribution
Equipartition Theorem Ultraviolet Catastrophe !
Rayleigh-Jeans Law 1900 1842 - 1919 1877 - 1046
Classical Planck Quantization Quantum
Birth of Quantum Physics M. Planck, Annalen der Physik, vol 4, 553 (1901) Blackbody Radiation
Relation to Wien’s Constant Peak Intensity condition Wien’s Constant
Our Universe as a Blackbody Far Infra-Red Absolute Spectrophotometer 1997 Cosmic Background Radiation
FIRAS DATA 2.7280 ± 0.0001 K BLACKBODY
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
Einstein’s Photon Hypothesis (1905) Energy Momentum
Niels Bohr 1885 - 1962
Bohr Model of the Atom 1913 Angular Momentum Quantization
Bohr Model of the Atom Angular Momentum Quantization Bohr radius
Compton wavelength of electron Fine Structure Constant Bohr Radius Hydrogen 1s level
Einstein’s Photon Hypothesis Energy Momentum
1924 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Brőglie (1892 – 1987)
W. Heisenberg 1901 - 1976
A convenient back-of-the-envelope way to keep track of the energy levels of quantum wells, and quantum dots.
E. Schrődinger 1887 - 1961
Schrődinger Equation Stationary State Time-Independent Schrődinger Equation
Paul Ehrenfest 1880 - 1933
Max Born 1882 - 1970