PHY 414.jpgPHY 414: Material Science
Course Contents
General introduction of materials. Mechanical properties of materials: stress, strain, ductility, hardness, toughness and fatigue. Non–Crystalline materials: glasses, amorphous, semiconductors, fibre optics. Organic materials: conducting polymers, organic metals. Alloys: steel, phase diagram. Surfaces: reconstruction, relaxation, work function. Interfaces: magnetoresistance, integral and fractional quantum hall effect, giant magnetoresistance, heterostructures. Nanomaterials: Imaging techniques, electrical and thermal properties.
- Lecturer : eze a.c