Physics and Nanotechnology – (M.Sc.)

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The student will be inscribed at one of the universities, and study for one year at the partner university. The student can choose to spend either the first or the second year at the partner university.

Students can start the program at either TUM or DTU.

Study plan
Note: The final study plan for the 1:1MSc program will be an individual study plan worked out by the student and the supervisors at DTU and TUM. The students should get 120 ECTS in total, at least 60 at the home university and 50 at the partner university.

Program provisions – students inscribed at DTU
The student will follow an individual study plan, approved by the programme coordinator at DTU. The study plan will follow the guidelines described in this section.

First year at DTU, second year at TUM
* The student must pass 30 ECTS General Competences and 30 ECTS Technological Specialization, the majority of which should be taken during the first year at DTU, but some courses can be transferred from the second year at TUM. It is strongly recommended that 10112 Advanced Quantum Mechanics is taken as one of the courses at DTU, as it is compulsory for TUM students.
* In the 3rd semester at TUM, the students have the opportunity to hear lectures and at the same time to establish the research project they will pursue in their Masters thesis. If students hear courses at TUM from the Applied Engineering Physics / Biophysics / Condensed Matter lists during year 2 they will be able to gain ECTS points counting towards DTU’s technological specialisation during that period, before concentrating on their Master’s thesis research during semester 4 (2nd half of year 2). The Master’s thesis is worth credits from 30-50, depending on the scope of their research + courses attended. The students have a main advisor at DTU, an external advisor at TUM and will eventually be required to defend their thesis at DTU.

First year at TUM, second year at DTU
* During the first two semesters at TUM, and the third semester at DTU, the student must pass courses corresponding to 30 ECTS General Competences and 30 ECTS Technological Specialisation. The TUM course Advanced Theoretical Physics is compulsory, and will be transferred as DTU course 10112 Advanced Quantum Mechanics. The requirement of 5 ECTS within the courses “Project in XXX” can instead be fulfilled by the 3 ECTS “Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum” and the 2 ECTS “Proseminar”. The requirement of following course 42490 Technology, Economy, Management, and Organization” may be fulfilled by following a similar course in economy, management and organization at TUM, after approval of the programme coordinator. The TUM courses within Applied Engineering Physics / Biophysics / Condensed Matter can count towards Technological Specialisation at DTU, see appendix A.
* The student will write a thesis at DTU following the usual requirements at DTU.

Program provisions – students inscribed at TUM
The student will follow an individual study plan, approved by the programme coordinator at TUM. The study plan will follow the guidelines described in this section.

First year at TUM, second year at DTU
* Students will fulfill all regular requirements of Applied and Engineering Physics / Biophysics / Condensed Matter study plan of year one at TUM.
* Students will spend year two at DTU, where they would make a 50 ECTS thesis and 10 ECTS courses, selected from the list of Technological Specialisation courses at DTU. For Master thesis there would need to be a supervisor at TUM and formally they have an “internal advisor at TUM” and an external advisor at DTU. Grading at TUM is done by two professors; grade is averaged over the thesis and colloquium weighting 30 ECTS / 5 ECTS, respectively.

First year at DTU, second year at TUM
* Sudents must hear Advanced Quantum Mechanics course at DTU (Course code 11112). Then they select courses totaling 30 ECTS points from the list of technological specialization courses at DTU within the Physics and Nanotechnology, see appendix B. These courses are either related to the topics of Applied Engineering Physics, Biophysics or Condensed Matter Physics. Students have to choose one project course and general Competence courses to follow up to 60 credits in total. At least 10 ECTS should come from a complementary area to be defined in collaboration with the dean of studies at their own university.
* In the second year students will make the master thesis at TUM following the usual requirements at TUM, including the Masterseminar, Masterspraktikum and Mastercolloquium.

Appendix A: List of courses at TUM, which can count towards Technological Specialisation at DTU.
Courses listed in the TUM Special course catalog as belonging to the educations in Condensed Matter Physics (KM), Biophysics (Bio) or Applied Engineering Physics (AEP) can count towards Technological Specialisation at DTU. Courses only offered as part of the Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics (KTA) do not count.

In addition, the course PH1004 Advanced Theoretical Physics can count as Techonological Specialisation and is transferred as course 10112 Advanced Quantum Mechanics. This course is not listed in the Special course catalog, as it is compulsory at TUM.

Appendix B: DTU courses available to TUM students.
All courses are offered in English.

* Advanced Quantum Mechanics

* Statistical Physics

* Electronic Structure Methods in Material Physics, Chemistry and Biology

* Experimental Surface Physics

* Quantum electronics: Physics and devices

* Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

* Physics of Sustainable Energy

* Continuum Physics

* Cellular biophysics

* Single Molecule and Nanoscale Spectroscopy

* Quantum Optics

* Theoretical microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems

* Semiconductor Technology

* Semiconductor Devices

* Nano-2: Nanosystems Engineering

* Nano-3 - Advanced NEMS

* Physics of Lab-on-chip systems

* Micro-2: MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS)

* Nanolithography

* Modern Photonics

* Fibre and Integrated Optics

* Modern Topics in Nanophotonics

* Nanophotonics

* Nonlinear Optics

* Numerical Methods in Photonics

* Fabrication of Nanophotonic Devices

* Light emitting diodes and photovoltaics for energy applications

* Bio-medical optics

* Materials for Hydrogen Production, Storage and Fuel Cell Applications