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MTSC 615 (Old 101) STRUCTURE OF SOLIDS (3) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. Crystallography, reciprocal lattices, Bloch waves, band structure, electronic wave functions, phonons, thermal expansion. Superlattice structures, including liquid crystals. Overview of properties of ceramic, amorphous, polymeric, and composite materials. |
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MTSC 720 (Old 102) MATERIALS FABRICATION (3) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. Chemical and physical methods of materials fabrication including CVD, MBE, plasma deposition, sputtering, laser ablation, electrochemistry, evaporation, ion beams, and wet synthesis. |
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MTSC 730 (Old 103) THERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS AND DIFFUSION (3) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. Chemical thermodynamics and reaction kinetics in bulk materials and on surfaces. Heat transfer and mass transport in condensed phases. |
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MTSC 735 (Old 104) TECHNIQUES IN MATERIALS SCIENCE (3) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. Lecture and laboratory in materials analysis techniques, including microscopy, X-ray diffraction and fluorescence, magnetic resonance, thermal analysis, XPS, channeling and RBS, mechanical properties, optical spectroscopy. |
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MTSC 891 (Old 200) SPECIAL TOPICS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE (2 or 3) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. Current topics in materials science, including electronic and optical materials, polymers, and biomaterials. |
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MTSC 810 (Old 242) DEVICE PHYSICS AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS (3) |
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Prerequisite, Physics 573 (Old 169) or APPL 470 (Old 141), MTSC 615 (Old 101), MTSC 730 (Old 103), or permission of the instructor. Survey of crystal structure, bandstructure, transport. Overview of FET's, heterostructures, light emission, dissipation, noise, integrated circuits, solar cells and ceramics. Emphasis on physical sources of device behavior. |
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MTSC 820 (Old 245) OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS (3) |
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Prerequisite, APPL 470 (Old 141) or Physics 573 (Old 169), Physics 415 (Old 106), or permission of the instructor. Reflection, waveguides, nonlinear optics, optical switching, photorefraction, optical storage. Optical coupling to electronic states, device applications, optical computing. |
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MTSC 830 (Old 249) ION-SOLID INTERACTIONS (3) |
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Prerequisite, APPL 470 (Old 141) or Physics 573 (Old 169) or permission of the instructor. Interatomic potentials, range distribution, radiation damage, annealing, secondary defects, analytical techniques, silicon-based devices, implantation in compound semiconductors, and buried layer synthesis. Ion implantation in metals, ceramics, polymers and biomaterials. |
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MTSC 840 (Old 250) NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVICE ARCHITECTURE (3) |
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Prerequisite, Physics 573 (Old 169) or APPL 470 (Old 141), MTSC 615 (Old 101), MTSC 730 (Old 103) or permission of the instructor. Survey of novel and emerging device technologies. Resonant tunneling transistors, HEMT, opto-electronic devices and optical communication and computation, low-temperature electronic, hybrid superconductor devices. |
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MTSC 993 (Old 393) MASTER'S THESIS (variable) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. |
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MTSC 994 (Old 394) DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (variable) |
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Prerequisite, permission of the curriculum. |
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