course:

Ceramic Materials

type:

lecture + exercises

lecturer:

Weppner

Semester:

WS

hours per week:

3

ECTS credits:

4

content:

1. Fundamentals: ceramic processes and products, structures of crystalline ceramic materials, structures of glasses, defects, surfaces, interfaces and grain boundaries
2. Preparation of Ceramic Materials
3. Mechanical and Thermal Properties
4. Ceramic Conductors: heating elements, Ohmic resistors, varistors, ceramic superconductors
5. Dielectrics and Insulators
6. Piezoelectric Ceramics
7. Pyroelectric Ceramics
8. Electrooptic Ceramics
9. Magnetic Ceramics
10. Ionic Ceramics: fuel cells, batteries, electrochromics, supercaps, photogalvanic solar cells, water
     

Literature:

1. Kingery, W.D., Bowen, H.K., Uhlmann, D.R.: Introduction to Ceramics, Wiley-Interscience, New York
2. Moulson, A.J., Herbert, J. M.: Electroceramics (Materials, Properties, Applications); Chapman & Hall, London
3. Steele, B.C. H. (Hrsg.): Electronic Ceramics; Elsevier Applied Science, London
4. Hench, L.L., West, J.K.: Principles of Electronic Ceramics; Wiley-Interscience, New York
    

Recommended:

Master 3^rd semester

Examination:

oral