The goal of the course is to provide fundamental insight and practical viewpoints of thin films to graduate students for their own research careers in materials science with a perspective from which concepts or phenomena encountered in their own work can be examined.

Evaluation
Participation (Q&A) 30%
Quiz/Homework/Project/Presentation 30%
Final exam (oral presentation) 40%
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Participation: Q&A (any questions during the class, no assessment)
Homework: individual problem-solving, no discussion
Team project (2~5 people): discussion-based report
: team would be randomly picked by TA or voluntarily organized by students
report needs to be written in English
please elaborate who contribute to certain part
Final exam

Schedule with keywords & scientific questions

Week 1. What is your purpose of this course?
Week 2. Crystallization (Why hard to grow single crystal?)
Week 3. Vaporization (How to generate vapor source?)
Week 4. Physical vapor deposition (How to physically supply vapors?)
Week 5. Plasma physics for PVD & CVD (Etching for PVD target & deposition in CVD process)
Week 6. Chemical vapor deposition (Chemically supplied vapor)
Week 7. Vacuum Science for synthesis (Why vacuum important for source delivery and surface?)
Week 8. Mass transport onto surface (Source delivery (convection & diffusion))
Week 9. no class (Mid-term Exam period)
Week 10. Adsorption on surface (When vapors meet surfaces? (Attraction forces))
Week 11. Surface chemical reaction (Nucleation & growth mode)
Week 12. Epitaxy on designed surface (What is epitaxy design?)
Week 13. Thin film heterostructures and their applications
Week 14. Thin film growth techniques (Thermal, plasma, etc.)
Week 15. Final Exam (Oral presentation)
Week 16. Final Exam (Oral presentation)

- 참여유도형 수업 (지식 전달 60%, 참여 40%)
- Discussion-based Q&A
- Why & How에 대한 끊임없는 질문으로 수업 진행