Solid State Physics in Civil Engineering

Lecturer:

Jaroslava Drchalová

Tutor:

Jaroslava Drchalová, Olga Kapičková

Supervisor:

Synopsis:

Solids, crystal structure, chemical bonds, electron microscopes, scanning tunneling microscope, atomic force microscope, diffraction, diffraction methods, semiconductors, p-n junction, photovoltaic effect, solar cells, heat and moisture transport.

Requirements:

no prerequisities

Syllabus of lectures:

Definition of solids, crystal structure, Bravais lattices, chemical bonds (covalent, ionic, metallic, van der Waals, hydrogen), methods of structure determination, electron microscopes

(TEM - transmission electron microscope, SEM - scanning electron microscope), surface probe microscopes (STM - scanning tunneling microscope, AFM - atomic force microscope), diffraction (X-ray, electron, and neutron diffraction), diffraction methods, semiconductors (intrinsic, extrinsic), p-n junction, diode as a rectifier, LED (light-emitting diode), photovoltaic effect, solar cells, transport phenomena, Fourier and Fick laws, differential equations of heat and moisture transfer.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Excursion to the Institute of Physics of the Acad. Sci. of the Czech Republic

Measurements of solar cells characteristics

Study of moisture processes in capillary-porous materials

Measurements of thermic parameters and their changes with moisture content

Study Objective:

Basic information on the solid state physics, on the methods of structural investigations, and on some technically important processes in solids

Study materials:

Kittel Ch.: Úvod do fyziky pevných látek, Academia, Praha, 1985

Dekker A.J.: Fyzika pevných látek, Academia, Praha, 1966

Bird R.B., Stewart W.E., Lightfoot E.N.: Přenosové jevy, Academia, Praha, 1968

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri	roomTH:A-230 Drchalová J. 08:00–09:50 EVEN WEEK (lecture parallel1) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) A230 roomTH:A-633 Drchalová J. 08:00–09:50 ODD WEEK (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (FSv-budova A) A633
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: