Topics for doctoral schoool admission:
- Surface phenomena. Surface tension, capillarity. Contact angle.
- Physical processes at the plasma-solid interface.
- Intrinsic/extrinsic semiconductors. Semiconductor heterojunctions.
- Thin films. Preparation methods.
- Physical methods for optical, structural, morphologic and elemental characterization of low-dimensional materials.
References
- M. A. Lieberman, A. J. Lichtenberg, Principles of plasma discharges and materials processing, John Wiley & Sons, 2005
- I. Georgescu, I. Petrea, D. Borșan, Fizica stării lichide, Ed. Didactică și Pedagogică, București, 1982
- I. D. Bursuc, N. Sulițanu, Solidul. Fenomene, teorii, aplicații, Ed. Științifică București, 1991
- R. R. Willey, Practical design and production of optical thin films, Marcel Dekker, New York, Basel, 2002
- K. Wasa, M. Kitabatake, H. Adachi, Thin film materials technology, Springer, 2004
- http://static.ifp.tuwien.ac.at/homepages/Personen/duenne_schichten/pdf/t_p_ds_chapter4.pdf