MTE3508

Electrical and magnetic materials

(ENG)

4 points + 2 lectures per week plus tutorials + First semester + Clayton + Corequisite: MTE3502

Synopsis: Electrical conductivity and semiconductivity: free electron and band theory. Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors, microelectronic component manufacture, VLSI fabrication, bipolar and MOS technologies, optoelectric devices. Dielectrics: harmonic and Debye models of polarisation and loss, optical fibres, dielectric breakdown. Ferroelectrics, piezoelectricity. Magnetic behaviour, domain wall motion and pinning, single domain particles. Hard and soft magnetic materials. Superconductivity.

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