• Basic information
• Learning outcomes
• Contents
• Assessment
• Workload

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain advanced concepts related to the dielectric properties of materials

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Materials Science and Engineering in a specialized way
   2. Acquire scientific knowledge
   3. Work effectively in multi-disciplinary research teams

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
   3. Seminar/presentation
2. Identify fundamental dielectric phenomena and explain their basic principles

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Materials Science and Engineering in a specialized way
   2. Acquire scientific knowledge
   3. Support his/her ideas with various arguments and present them clearly to a range of audience, formally and informally through a variety of techniques

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
   3. Seminar/presentation
3. Develop an awareness regarding the applications of electroceramics.

   Contribution to Program Outcomes

   1. Define and manipulate advanced concepts of Materials Science and Engineering in a specialized way
   2. Summarize, document, report and reflect on progress,
   3. Acquire scientific knowledge

   Method of assessment

   1. Written exam
   2. Homework assignment
   3. Seminar/presentation

Contents
Week 1:	Introduction, periodic structures and interatomic forces, lattice vibrations: thermal, acoustic and optical properties.
Week 2:	Energy band in solids, Maxwells's equations, review of basic formula of dielectrics.
Week 3:	Electric polarization and relaxations in static electric fields; Magnetization.
Week 4:	Electric polarization and relaxations in time-varying electric fields
Week 5:	Dielectric permittivitiy; Low, medium and high permitivity ceramics.
Week 6:	Optical and electro-optic processes: Interaction btw radiation and matter.
Week 7:	Optical and electro-optic proceses: Luminescence, photoemission, photovoltaic effects.
Week 8:	Electro-optic ceramics.
Week 9:	MIDTERM
Week 10:	Concepts of electrical contacts, charge carier injection from electrical contacts, potential barriers. Tunneling through thin dielectric films bertween electrical contacts. Electrical conduction and photoconduction.
Week 11:	Applications: Conductive ceramics: Superconductives, ionic conductives.
Week 12:	Electrical aging, discharge and breakdown.
Week 13:	Applications: Piezoelectrics and pyroelectrics.
Week 14:	Applications: Magnetic ceramics.
Week 15*:	GENERAL REVIEW
Week 16*:	FINAL EXAM
Textbooks and materials:	• Dielectric Phenomena in Solids, Kao, Elsevier, 2004. •Electroceramics, Herbert & Moulson, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, England, 2003. Others: • Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of Ceramic Materials (CerSc 508 Course Notes), Newnham, Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
Recommended readings:	• Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, Solymar & Walsh, Oxford University Press, 1993.
	* Between 15th and 16th weeks is there a free week for students to prepare for final exam.

Assessment
Method of assessment	Week number	Weight (%)
Mid-terms:	7	40
Other in-term studies:	12	0
Project:	0	0
Homework:	3,6,9,12	20
Quiz:	0	0
Final exam:	16	40
	Total weight:	(%)

Workload
Activity	Duration (Hours per week)	Total number of weeks	Total hours in term
Courses (Face-to-face teaching):	3	14
Own studies outside class:	5	14
Practice, Recitation:	0	0
Homework:	5	4
Term project:	0	0
Term project presentation:	0	0
Quiz:	0	0
Own study for mid-term exam:	6	4
Mid-term:	1	1
Personal studies for final exam:	14	2
Final exam:	1	1
		Total workload:
		Total ECTS credits:	*
	* ECTS credit is calculated by dividing total workload by 25. (1 ECTS = 25 work hours)