MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Engineering Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

MTE2550

Materials science and engineering

Objectives To develop an understanding of the origins and applications of a wide variety of materials in use in electrical engineering, including magnetic materials, insulators, conductors, semiconductors and superconductors. The student should emerge with a knowledge of the operation, design and manufacture of components and devices constructed from such materials.

Synopsis Introduction to materials: ceramics, metals and polymers. Microstructure - property relationships; electrical conduction and resistivity. Diffusion. Doping and purification of materials. Semiconductor transistors and integrated circuits and their manufacture. The origin of magnetism in solids; ferromagnetism, paramagnetism and diamagnetisation. Curie temperature and domains. Hard and soft magnetic materials. Dielectrics: ionic, electronic and orientational polarisations. Temperature and frequency dependence of dielectric constant. Ferroelectrics and piezoelectrics, optical fibres, their uses and manufacture.

Recommended reading

• Allison J Electronic engineering materials and devices McGraw-Hill, 1971
• Cullity B D Introduction to magnetic materials Addison-Wesley, 1972
• Fraser D A The physics of semiconductor devices 3rd edn, Clarendon Press, 1983
• Jain G C Properties of electrical engineering materials Harper and Row, 1967
• Solymar L and Walsh D Lectures on the electrical properties of materials OUP, 1979
• Tebble R S and Craik D J Magnetic materials Wiley, 1969
• Wert C A and Thomson R M Physics of solids McGraw-Hill, 1964

Reference

• Callister W D Materials science and engineering: An introduction 3rd edn, Wiley, 1994