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Advanced Materials B

Part 1: Electronic Materials

© Prof. Dr. Helmut Föll

Table of Contents

Hyperscripts of AMAT:
General Information

Index

1. Introduction

1.1 General Remarks
How to use the Hyperscript
Electronic Materials and Products
 

2. Materials and Conductivity

2.1 Ohm's Law and Theory of Charge Transport
Ohms Law and Materials Properties
Ohms Law and Classical Physics
The Hall Effect
2.2 Materials and Conductivity
Metals
Alloys
Non-Metalic Conductors
2.3 General Applications
Conductors
Contacts
Resistors and heating elements
2.4 Special Applications
Thermionic emission, field effects and tunneling
Thermoelectric effects
2.5 Ionic Conductors
General remarks
Debye length and Nernsts Law
2.6 Summary Conductors
   

3. Dielectrics

3.1 Definitions and General Relations
Fields, polarisation, dipoles, susceptibility, dielectric constants.
Capacitors, surface charge and dipole moments
3.2 Mechanisms of Polarization
Electronic polarisation
Ionic polarisation
Orientation polarisation
Relation between microscopic and macroscopic quantities
3.3 Frequency Dependence of the Dielectric Constant
Dipole relaxation
Resonant absorption
Dielectric function
3.4 Dynamic Properties
Dielectric losses
3.5 Dielectric breakdown
General Observation and Failure
Mechanisms
3.6 Special Dielectrics
Piezoelectricity and related effects
Ferroelectricity
3.6 Summary Dielectrics
   

4. Magnetic Materials

4.1 Definitions and General Relations
Definitions and general relations
Fields, fluxes and permeability
Origin of Magnetic Dipoles
Classifications of Interactions and Types of Magnetism
4.2 Dia- and Paramagnetism
Diamagnetism
Paramagnetism
4.3 Ferromagetism
Mean field model
Magnetic domains
Magnetization and domain movement
Hard and soft magnets, uses
4.4 Technical Materials and Applications
Magnetic materials general
Magnetic data storage
4.6 Summary Magnetic Materials
     

5. Optics

5.1 Basic Optics
What is Light?
Basic geometric optics
Basic wave optics
5.2 Optics and Materials
Basic interaction between light and matter. Definition of problem
Flat surface: Reflection, transmittance, defraction, absorbance, dispersion,... Fresnel equations
Rough surface, optically inhomogenies materials (pores, particles,...) Opacity. Rayleigh, Mie scattering. Brüggemann average n
Complex index of refraction
Generating light. Emittance, black body, luminescence, phosphorescence, plasma, optoelectronics, Laser
Special effects: ....cell, modulation, bragg, filter, detection, 3-D vision
5.3 Optical components
Light generation. Light bulb, plasma discharge, led, laser, specials. Properties: monochromatic, coherent, cost, energy efficiency, intensity, drivers,..
Light processing. "Beam forming", modulation, filtering, polarization, Phase engineeering ("phase mask"), holograpy and holograms,
Light detection. Eye, quantum efficiency (sensitivitiy single photon). semiconductor (solar cell), heat (bolometer) specials
5.4 Summary Optics