Research Master's in Nanoscience

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS AND CLASS TIMETABLES

Teaching Period

The teaching period of the next academic year will start in October 2011 and will end in June 2012. A personal academic advisor will assist to each student in the choice of courses and in ensuring that the program can be finished successfully within one year.

Credits required to complete the Master’s program

Students are required to complete the individualized one-year program with 60 ECTS credits to be granted a Master’s degree in Nanoscience (MSc). See the link ’Program’ below for the full listing of courses.

• Compulsory courses (24 ECTS)
• Elective courses (21 ECTS)
• Master Thesis (15 ECTS)

 

Credit Transfer

Students can apply for Credit Transfer from other courses followed in the past. Credit transfer applications have to include all necessary information about the courses. The application form is available here in PDF format and here in MSWord format.

 

Class Timetables

Lectures will take place in the ’Aula Master’ (Floor 0, Room PBA004) of the CFM building. Timetables of the lectures can be found in this file.

 

PROGRAM

 

SUBJECT	ECTS CREDITS
COMPULSORY
Experimental techniques I: structural characterization	3
Experimental techniques II: spectroscopies	3
From nanoscience to nanotechnology	3
Fundamentals of nanoscale characterization	3
Low dimensional systems and nanostructures	3
Modelling and molecular dynamics simulations at the nanoscale	3
Nanostructural properties	3
Soft matter and nanostructured materials	3
OPTIONAL
Advanced nano-scale characterization techniques (Electron energy loss spectroscopy in electron microscopy)	3
Advanced theoretical methods in nanoscience	3
Advanced topics in nanomaterials (Nanophotonics)	3
Classical electrodynamics	3
Dynamics of complex materials (Molecular motions in glass-forming systems)	3
Fundamentals of quantum mechanics	3
Fundamentals of solid state physics	3
Introduction to material science	3
Introduction to scientific research	9
Mathematical methods for nanoscience	3
Nanoscience: a historical perspective	3
Nanotechnology-oriented research activities	3

 

 MASTER’S THESIS

 Master’s Thesis defended:

Title: "QUANTUM OPTIMAL CONTROL OF HIGH-HARMONIC GENERATION FROM MOLECULAR SYSTEMS."
Defended by: Ali Akbari
Supervised by: Angel Rubio
Date: July 2008

Title: "ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SUBSTITUTIONAL 3D TRANSITION METALS IN GRAPHENIC SYSTEMS."
Defended by: Elton Jose Gomes Santos
Supervised by: Daniel Sánchez-Portal and Andrés Ayuela Fernández
Date: July 2008

Title: "SCATTERING OF DIATOMIC MOLECULES FROM METAL SURFACES: N2/W(110)."
Defended by: Fernando Mingo Botín
Supervised by: Ricardo Díez Muiño and Maite Alducin Ochoa
Date: July 2008

Title: "NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON NANOSTRUCTURED PS-PDMS DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS: PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION."
Defended by: Lourdes del Valle Carrandi
Supervised by: Juan Colmenero de León
Date: June 10th 2009

Title: "SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL MAGNETIC GLYCONANOPARTICLES AS POTENTIAL CONTRAST AGENTS IN MRI"
Defended by: Juan Gallo Páramo
Supervised by: Isabel García and Angel Alegría
Date: June 10th 2009

Title: “ENERGY LOSS IN THE COLLISION OF ANTIPROTONS WITH METAL CLUSTERS”
Defended by: Izaro Laresgoiti Garay
Supervised by: Ricardo Díez Muiño
Date: June 10th 2009

Title: “COLLECTIVE ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS AT METAL SURFACES COVERED WITH ADLAYERS”
Defended by: Juan Pablo Echeverry
Supervised by: Eugene Choulkov and Viatcheslav Silkin
Date: July 22nd 2009

Title: “THE ROLE OF INTRAMOLECULAR BARRIERS ON THE GLASS TRANSITION OF POLYMERS: COMPUTER SIMULATIONS VS. MODE COUPLING THEORY”
Defended by: Marco Bernabei
Supervised by: Angel J. Moreno
Date: July 22nd 2009

Title: “REACTIVITY AND DYNAMICS OF N2 MOLECULES ON METAL SURFACES”
Defended by: Itziar Goikoetxea Martínez
Supervised by: Joseba Iñaki Juaristi Oliden
Date: July 22nd 2009

Title: “AB INITIO STUDY OF THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY IN CHIRAL SYSTEMS”
Defended by: Leonardo Andrés Espinosa Leal
Supervised by: Angel Rubio and Daniele Varsano
Date: September 16th 2009

Title: “TIGHT-BINDING MODELS FOR ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT THROUGH MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS”
Defended by: Giuseppe Foti
Supervised by: Andrés Arnau Pino, Daniel Sánchez-Portal and Thomas Frederiksen
Date: September 16th 2009

Title: “SCREENING AND DISSIPATION IN A QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL BOSE-FERMI MIXTURE”
Defended by: Eneko Malatsetxebarria Elizegi
Supervised by: Miguel Angel Cazalilla
Date: September 16th 2009

Title: “SELECTIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE LOCAL CHAIN DYNAMICS USING FUNCTIONALIZED POLYMERS”
Defended by: Sandra Plaza García
Supervised by: Angel Alegría and Reidar Lund
Date: September 16th 2009

Title: “SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY STUDIES OF ORGANIC MOLECULES ON NOBLE METAL SURFACES”
Defended by: Zakaria Mohammed Abd El-Fatah
Supervised by: Enrique Ortega
Date: September 16th 2009

Title: “PHOTOEMISSION INVESTIGATION ON THE RARE-EARTH-AU2 SURFACE COMPOUNDS”
Defended by: Maider Ormaza Saezmiera
Supervised by: Frederik Schiller and Enrique Ortega
Date: July 7th 2010

Title: “SELF-ASSEMBLY OF DONOR-ACCEPTOR NETWORKS ON METAL SURFACES”
Defended by: Elisabeth Goiri Little
Supervised by: Dimas G. de Oteiza and Enrique Ortega
Date: July 7th 2010

Title: “STRUCTURE-DEPENDENT ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES IN DONOR-ACCEPTOR ASSEMBLIES ON AU(111) SURFACE”
Defended by: Afaf El Sayed Abd El-Mottaleb
Supervised by: Dimas G. de Oteiza and Enrique Ortega
Date: July 7th 2010

Title: “INFRARED PHONONIC NANOANTENNAS: LOCALIZED SURFACE PHONON POLARITONS IN SIC DISKS”
Defended by: Mohamed Ameen Poyli
Supervised by: Javier Aizpurua Iriazabal
Date: July 21st 2010

Title: “NANOFABRICATION AND MAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF ARRAYS OF IINTERACTING FERROMAGNETIC NANOISLANDS”
Defended by: Jose Mª Porro Azpiazu
Supervised by: Paolo Vavassori
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “ELECTROSTATIC FORCE MICROSCOPY BASED APPROACH TO STUDY THE LOCAL DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITY OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS”
Defended by: Mohammed Musthafa Kummali
Supervised by: Angel Alegría Loinaz and Gustavo Ariel Schwartz
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “A MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS STUDY ON THE STRUCTURE AND THE DYNAMICS OF POLYISOBUTYLENE”
Defended by: Jasmin Khairy Abd El-Fatah
Supervised by: Arantxa Arbe and Juan Colmenero
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF CO50MN30INXSN(20-X) (X= 0, 5, 10, 15, AND 20) SAMPLES FOR MAGNETOCALORIC EFFECT”
Defended by: Mst. Nazmunnahar
Supervised by: Julián González and Juan José del Val
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION IN CEMENT BASED MATERIALS”
Defended by: Raquel Gonzalez Teresa
Supervised by: Jorge Sanchez Dolado and Jean Christophe Gimel
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL IN TEXTURED AND EPITAXIAL THIN CO FILMS”
Defended by: Olatz Idigoras Lertxundi
Supervised by: Andreas Berger
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY ON INSULATING SUBSTRATES”
Defended by: Libe Arzubiaga Totorika
Supervised by: Luis E. Hueso
Date: September 16th 2010

Title: “HETEROGENEITY OF THE SEGMENTAL DYNAMICS IN LAMELLAR PHASES OF DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS”
Defended by: Mohammed Zakaria Slimani
Supervised by: Angel José Moreno Segurado
Date: April 15th 2011

Title: “IMMOBILIZATION OF ORGANIC MOLECULES ON INDIUM TIN OXIDE FOR ORGANIC SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS”
Defended by: Alex Correa
Supervised by: Celia Rogero and Enrique Ortega
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “DESIGN OF A CROSSED-POLES ELECTROMAGNET FOR AN UHV MAGNETO-OPTICAL KERR EFFECT SETUP”
Defended by: Ana Magaña
Supervised by: Frederik Michael Schiller
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “MAGNETIC RESPONSE OF AN ULTRATHIN LAYER OF PERMALLOY (NIFE) IN CONTACT WITH AN ORGANIC FULLERENE (C60) LAYER.”
Defended by: Ana Pascual
Supervised by: Luis Hueso
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “SPIN EXCITATIONS OF VORTEX STATE IN MAGNETIC DOTS”
Defended by: Oksana Sukhostavets
Supervised by: Kostyantyn Gusliyenko and Julian González
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “ELECTROSPINNING OF SELF-ASSEMBLING PEPTIDES”
Defended by: Wiwat Nuansing
Supervised by: Alexander Bittner
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “LATERAL SPIN VALVES FOR ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS”
Defended by: Thales Oliveira
Supervised by: Alexander M. Bittner and Luis E. Hueso
Date: June 15th 2011

Title: “DEVELOPMENT OF AN AU(111)-BASED NANOTEMPLATE BY CE ALLOYING”
Defended by: Sarai Lafuente Uriarte
Supervised by: Laura Fernández
Date: July 26th 2011

Title: “DEPOSITION OF METAL SULFIDE THIN FILMS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS”
Defended by: Ngo Thy Tuyen
Supervised by: Ramón Tena Zaera
Date: July 26th 2011

Title: “NARROW DISPERSITY, HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT FUNCTIONAL METHACRYLATE DERIVATIVES BY ICTA-MEDIATED POLYMERIZATION”
Defended by: Ana Belén Sánchez Sánchez
Supervised by: José A. Pomposo
Date: July 26th 2011

Title: “METALLIC LATERAL SPIN VALVES: FABRICATION AND SPIN TRANSPORT”
Defended by: Estitxu Villamor Lomas
Supervised by: Fèlix Casanova i Fernàndez
Date: July 26th 2011

Title: “FABRICATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS”
Defended by: Zorione Herrasti
Supervised by: Fernando Martinez & Enrique Ortega
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “ANGULAR DEPENDENT MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL MODE TRANSITION IN THIN CO-FILMS”
Defended by: Jon Ander Arregi
Supervised by: Andreas Berger
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “NEAR-FIELD STUDY OF INFRARED TRANSMISSION LINES ON A CAF2 SUBSTRATE”
Defended by: Paulo Sarriugarte Onandia
Supervised by: Rainer Hillenbrand
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “ON THE APPARENT SEC MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND POLYDISPERSITY REDUCTION UPON INTRAMOLECULAR COLLAPSE OF POLYDISPERSE CHAINS TO UNIMOLECULAR NANOPARTICLES”
Defended by: Irma Perez Baena
Supervised by: José A. Pomposo
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “DESIGN OF POLYMER-BASED NANOPARTICLES BY COMPUTER SIMULATION”
Defended by: Mario Lechner
Supervised by: Angel José Moreno Segurado
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “DYNAMICS OF AMINO ACID WATER SOLUTIONS AS STUDIED BY DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY”
Defended by: Iñigo Rodriguez Arteche
Supervised by: Silvina Cerveny
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “ENERGY LOSS OF ELECTRONS PHOTOEMITTED FROM METAL CLUSTERS”
Defended by: Natalia Koval
Supervised by: Ricardo Díez Muiño and Daniel Sánchez Portal
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “MODELING MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS: APPLICATIONS TO CHEMICAL SENSORS”
Defended by: Iker Larraza Arocena
Supervised by: Angel Rubio and Duncan J. Mowbray
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF PENTACENE AND PICENE”
Defended by: Jeiran Jokar
Supervised by: Angel Rubio, Matteo Gatti and Pierluigi Cudazzo
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “LINIAR RESPONSE FUNCTION OF SOLIDS WITHIN TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (TDDFT)”
Defended by: Navid Abedi Khaledi
Supervised by: Angel Rubio
Date: September 14th 2011

Title: “NON-ADIABATIC EFFECTS IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL ONE AND TWO ELECTRON SYSTEMS: THE CASES OF THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL H+2 AND H2 MOLECULES”
Defended by: Alison Crawford Uranga
Supervised by: Lorenzo Stella, Stefan Kurth and Angel Rubio
Date: September 14th 2011

 

INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 

Additional information on the Program features and on the enrollment process can be obtained in the web of the Basque Country University UPV/EHU. Please check this page for a summary of the Master’s Program.