Advanced electrical and electronics materials : processes and applications

Content: Cover
 Half Title page
 Title page
 Copyright page
 Dedication
 Preface
 Acknowledgement
 About the Authors
 Abbreviations
 Chapter 1: General Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Materials
 1.1 Importance of Materials
 1.2 Importance of Electrical and Electronic Materials
 1.3 Classification of Electrical and Electronic Materials
 1.4 Scope of Electrical and Electronic Materials
 1.5 Requirements of Engineering Materials
 1.6 Operational Requirements of Electrical and Electronic Materials
 1.7 Classification of Solids on the Basis of Energy Gap 1.8 Glimpse of Some Electronic Products, Their Working Principles and Choicest Materials1.9 Different Types of Engineering Materials
 1.10 Different Levels of Materials Structure
 1.11 Spintronics (The Electronics of Tomorrow) and Spintronic Materials
 1.12 Ferromagnetic Semiconductor
 1.13 Left-Handed (LH) Materials
 1.14 Solved Examples
 Chapter 2: Atomic Models, Bonding in Solids, Crystal Geometry, and Miller Indices
 2.1 Atomic Models
 2.2 Bohr's Quantum Atomic Model
 2.3 Modern Concept of Atomic Model
 2.4 Electron Configuration
 2.5 Meaning of Chemical (or Atomic) Bonding 2.6 Classification of Chemical Bonds2.7 Ionic Bond
 2.8 Covalent Bonds
 2.9 Monocrystalline and Polycrystalline Crystal Structures
 2.10 Space Lattice
 2.11 Basis
 2.12 Unit Cell and Crystal
 2.13 Bravais Crystal System
 2.14 Primitive and Non-Primitive Unit Cells
 2.15 Coordination Number
 2.16 Atomic Packing Fraction
 2.17 Calculation of Density (or Bulk Density)
 2.18 Miller Indices
 2.19 Interplaner Spacing
 2.20 Linear Density
 2.21 Planer Density
 Chapter 3: Solid Structures, Characterization of Materials, Crystal Imperfections, and Mechanical Properties of Materials 3.1 Crystallography3.2 Crystalline and Non-Crystalline Structures
 3.3 Hexagonally Closed Packed Structure (HCP)
 3.4 VOIDS
 3.5 Covalent Solids
 3.6 Bragg's Law of X-Rays Diffraction
 3.7 Structure Determination
 3.8 Microscopy
 3.9 Different Types of Metallurgical Microscopes and Their Features
 3.10 Working Principle of Electron Microscope
 3.11 Ideal and Real Crystals, and Imperfections
 3.12 Classification of Imperfections
 3.13 Point Imperfections
 3.14 Effects of Point Imperfections
 3.15 Line Imperfections
 3.16 Features of Edge Dislocation
 3.17 Screw Dislocation 3.18 Characteristics of Dislocations3.19 Sources of Dislocations, Their Effects and Remedies
 3.20 Grain Boundary
 3.21 Twin or Twinning
 3.22 Mechanical Properties of Metals
 Chapter 4: Conductive Materials: Electron Theories, Properties and Behaviour
 4.1 Electrons and Their Role in Conductivity
 4.2 Electron Theories of Solids
 4.3 Free Electron Theory
 4.4 Energy Band Theory
 4.5 Brillouin Zone Theory
 4.6 Conductors
 4.7 Factors Affecting Conductivity (and Resistivity) of Metals
 4.8 Thermal Conductivity
 4.9 Heating Effect of Current
 4.10 Thermoelectric Effect (or Thermoelectricity)