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MTE3545 - Functional materials and devices

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Engineering

Organisational Unit

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Coordinator(s)

Professor Kiyonori Suzuki

Offered

Clayton

Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Electrical and optical properties of materials - dielectrics, ferroelectrics, superconductors and optical fibres; magnetic properties - microscopic origin of magnetism in specific classes of materials, domains, magnet fabrication and applications; nanodevices which rely on the preceding properties, experimental techniques.

Outcomes

To understand the science and technology governing the important properties and uses of the major electrical, optical and magnetic materials and the development of associated nanotechnological devices.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 55%
Assignments: 12%
Laboratory work: 33%

Workload requirements

Three one-hour lecture/tutorial classes per week and four x five hour laboratory classes during the semester and 7 hours of private study per week.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Nick Birbilis

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Materials science
Physics

Prerequisites

MTE2544 or MSC2022 or TRC3800 or MSC2111 of PHS2011

Prohibitions

MSC3011, MSC3132, MTE3508