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| DESCRIPTION | The first part of the compulsory one-year development course series for AMAT students. This course aims to provide introduction of materials, giving students the idea regarding the role of materials in the daily life and technological applications. In addition, academic and professional advising to students and to develop their technical and non-technical communication skills and professional ethics will be provided. Graded P/PP/F. |
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| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| L01 (6222) | Tu 04:30PM - 05:20PM | Rm 147, E1 | CHEN, Peng CHU, Xiakun GAN, Zecheng GAO, Ping HUANG, Yang LI, Haoxiang LIU, Jinguo TAN, Chee Keong WANG, Jun WU, Jiaying WU, Xiaoxiao YUAN, Jiaxing YUAN, Rongfeng ZHOU, Tong ZHU, Guoyi | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| DESCRIPTION | This course introduces the fundamentals of transport processes in materials and key principles of materials design. Topics cover dimensional analysis, momentum, energy, heat, and mass transfer, and the systematic design and preparation of materials for science and engineering applications. |
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| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| L01 (6226) | MoWe 04:30PM - 05:50PM | Rm 149, E1 | GAN, Zecheng GAO, Ping | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 | |
| T01 (6227) | Tu 06:00PM - 06:50PM | Rm 149, E1 | GAN, Zecheng GAO, Ping | 50 | 0 | 50 | 0 |
| VECTOR | [3-0-0:3] |
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| DESCRIPTION | This is an introductory course for postgraduate students with materials science background. Basic topics of solid state physics including electronic band structure, phonons, electron interactions and spin correlations will be covered. In addition, modern topics of high temperature superconductors, topological electrons, spin liquids and low dimensional systems will be introduced, providing a beginner’s guide to quantum materials. |
| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| L01 (6039) | Mo 01:30PM - 04:20PM | Rm 102, W4 | LI, Haoxiang ZHOU, Tong | 40 | 0 | 40 | 0 |
| VECTOR | [3-0-0:3] |
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| DESCRIPTION | Surfaces and Interfaces not only determine the properties of many systems but also provide opportunities to create new structured materials for advanced applications. This course is designed for students to understand the origin of interfacial phenomena (e.g., wetting, spreading, emulsification, capillary action, electric double layer, and heterojunction) and their impact on material structure and properties. |
| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| L01 (6041) | We 09:00AM - 11:50AM | Rm 202, E4 | WANG, Jun | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| VECTOR | [3-0-0:3] |
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| DESCRIPTION | This course will cover the physics of the electronic structure of pi-conjugated materials and their neutral, excited and charged states (excitons, polarons), their optical properties (absorption, emission), photophysical processes, photochemistry, energy transfer and charge transport. It will introduce the principles of design and operation of molecular based light emitting devices, solar cells etc. as well as providing an introduction to device fabrication and device engineering for maximum performance and lifetime. |
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| L01 (6044) | Tu 01:30PM - 04:20PM | Rm 201, W1 | WU, Jiaying | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| VECTOR | [3-0-0:3] |
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| DESCRIPTION | Compound semiconductor materials have been deeply integrated in various gadgets nowadays, shaping the new world in an unimaginable way. Understanding compound semiconductor materials is critical as one of the first steps towards understanding how the advanced technology evolves continuously, from the past to the future. This course aims to introduce an overview of compound semiconductor materials, linking the fundamental physics, materials and devices to the point where the students can specialize and assist them in their supervised research. The course contains fundamentals of semiconductor physics and semiconductor specifics including technologically relevant materials and their properties, doping and defects and heterostructures. General and detailed discussions on linking materials and devices for applications will be covered at the later stage in the course. |
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| L01 (6045) | Th 06:00PM - 08:50PM | Rm 134, E1 | TAN, Chee Keong | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| DESCRIPTION | Master's thesis research supervised by co-advisors from different disciplines. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned. |
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| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| R01 (6001) | TBA | No room required | TBA | 999 | 0 | 999 | 0 |
| DESCRIPTION | Original and independent doctoral thesis research supervised by co-advisors from different disciplines. A successful defense of the thesis leads to the grade Pass. No course credit is assigned. |
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| Section | Date & Time | Room | Instructor | Quota | Enrol | Avail | Wait | Remarks |
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| R01 (6002) | TBA | No room required | TBA | 999 | 0 | 999 | 0 |