Materials and Technology for Electronics

The course is a substitute for:

Materials and Technology for Electronics (X12MTE)

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Synopsis:

Based on the subject Materials for Electrotechnics, principles of materials processing leading to products are explained. Technologies of casting, working, machining, welding, soldering, sintering, layers, composites, circuits, resistors, dielectrics, optoelectronics, transducers, magnetics, semi- and superconductors are explained in relation to intrinsic phenomena. Corrosion, deformation and ageing of materials are described.

Requirements:

The detailed requirements will isue at the end of semester.

Syllabus of lectures:

1)Diffusion and materials processing. Solutions of Fick's second law.

2)Phase transitions, methods of crystallization, the application of phase diagrams.

3)Heat treatment, zone refining, casting, working.

4)Machining, lithography, micromechanics, beam technologies.

5)Welding, thermocompression, soldering, sticking, sintering, composite materials.

6)Layers: vacuum deposition, sputtering, chemical vapour deposition, molecular beam epitaxy, liquid phase epitaxy, LB layers, thick layers.

7)Aging of materials: corrosion, polymer degradation, electro-migration.

8)Materials technology of circuits, printed circuit boards, surface mount technology, hybrid circuit boards, capacitors.

9)Materials technology of transducers and displays, 'smart' materials.

10)Materials technology in optoelectronics.

11)Materials technology of superconductors, warm superconductors.

12)Semiconductor technology and p-n junction technology, metal-semiconductor contacts.

13)Materials technology of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, materials technology for electronic packaging.

14)Magnetic materials technology. Materials technology of magnetic and magneto-optic record with high density.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction, laboratory exercise overview

2. Kinetics of creep of electroconducting metals

3. Electrical arc welding - practical exercise

4. Machining by turning, milling and grinding

5. Influence of strain hardening on the mechanical properties of metals

6. Experimental determination of solidus and liquidus temperatures of PbSn system

7. Measurement of electrical properties of polymeric composites

8. Microscopic evaluation of polypropylene crystallisation in real time

9. Measurement of static hysteresis loops of soft magnetic materials

10. Experimental determination of impurities distribution in a single crystal of silicon

11. Experimental determination of diffusion coefficient of impurities in silicon

12. Temperature dependence of permittivity of dielectrics and ferroelectrics

13. Measurement of kinetics of electrochemical corrosion

14. Assessment test

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1)Bouda,V. - Mach,P. - Hampl,J.: Properties and Processing of Materials. FEL ČVUT 1999

2)Sedláček, J.: Properties and Processing of Materials, Exercises, skriptum, FEL ČVUT, Praha (2002, 2006)

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Electronics and Communication Technology - structured studies (compulsory course)