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MS&E 456 Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials, Fall09 (1) Sections: 001

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456 Electronic Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials. 1-3 cr. Quantitative description of electronic, optical, and magnetic structure-property relationships of materials. Strategies for the development of new materials and introduction to applications of these materials. P:So standing. Electronic Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials. I.

Course Prerequisite(s)

MS&E 333
MS&E 351

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Calculus
Differential equations
Electricity and magnetism
Structures of solids
Structure-properties relationships in materials

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

Rolf Hummel, Electronic Properties of Materials, 3rd Ed., Springer (2001, corrected 2005), ISBN 0-387-95144-X.

Course objectives

Introduction to the quantitative description of structure-property relationships for electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of materials
Understand the role of electronic, magnetic, and optical properties in the development, selection, and application of materials

Topics covered

Consequences of the Drude model, electrical properties of metals
Large scale optical properties
Electrons in crystals
Real and reciprocal lattices, Brillouin zones
Electron energy levels in real materials
Effective mass, density of states
Fermi distribution, Fermi surfaces
Electrical properties of metals revisited
Band structures of real metals and metallic glasses
Other "Electronic" Properties: Specific heat
Thermal conductivity
Semiconductors: Band structure and doping
Conduction by holes in semiconductors and metals
PN junctions, Schottky diodes, BJTs and FETs
Optical properties: index of refraction, absorption, etc.
Optical absorption, spectra of metals and semiconductors
Organic "metals" and semiconductors
Ionic conductivity, superionic conductors
Dielectrics: Electrical Properties of Insulators
Ferroelectricity: Origins and Properties
Electronic effects in structural phase transitions
Magnetism: electron spin, para- and diamagnetism in solids
Soft and hard magnetic materials
Ionic magnetism and the Heisenberg model
Thermodynamic effects in magnetic devices
Itinerant magnetism
Superconductivity: phenomena
Superconducting materials
BCS theory of superconductivity
Bose Statistics in Optics: Stimulated Emission, Lasers
Optical Materials for Photonics

Class/laboratory schedule

Three 50 minute lecture sessions per week

Contribution of course to meeting the professional component

This course contributes primarily to the students' knowledge of engineering topics, but does not provide design experience.

The following statement indicates which of the following considerations are included in this course: economic, environmental, ethical, political, societal, health and safety, manufacturability, sustainability.

Considerations included in this course: economic, environmental, manufacturability, sustainability.

Relationship of course to undergraduate degree program objectives and outcomes

This course primarily serves students in the department. The information below describes how the course contributes to the undergraduate program objectives.

Ability to develop and to apply knowledge of mathematics, phsyics, and thermodynamics to the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of materials. [Department Objective 1; Department Outcomes 1 and 2; ABET 3a]

Understanding of the design and development of new materials, and an understanding of what fundamental measurements are required in the development of new electronic, magnetic, and optical materials. [Department Objective 2; Department Outcomes 3 and 5; ABET 3c and 3k]

Formulation and presentation of outstanding problems in electronic, magnetic, and optical materials and the practical needs motivating research and development through an in-class presentation and end-of-semester paper. [Department Objectives 2 and 3; Department Outcomes 6, 8, 11; ABET 3e, 3g, and 3j]

Assessment of student progress toward course objectives

Two mid-term exams on electronic, optical, and magnetic phenomena.
Comprehensive final exam
Ten graded homework assignments
Graded in-class individual or small-team presentation on an emerging area of electronic, magnetic, and optical materials; and a paper based on the presenation.

Person(s) who prepared this description

Paul Evans

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Date last modified: 04-Aug-2007
Content by: kailhofer@engr.wisc.edu
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