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as necessary to understand vacuum phenomena. Description of
components and materials, vacuum systems design and uses in
metallurgy, electronics, physics, and chemistry.
EMA 5365: Biomimetic Synthesis (3) Prereq: EMA 3010 or
equivalent. Investigation of processes utilized by organisms to
control mineralization of their hard parts, to gain understanding of
mechanisms used by them to obtain precise control over size,
shape, texture, orientation, and composition.
EMA 6001: Properties of Materials - A Survey (3) Prereq:
Bachelor's degree in physics, chemistry, or engineering. Review of
physical properties of materials such as mechanical, electrical,
optical, magnetic, and thermal properties.
EMA 6005: Thin and Thick Films (3) Prereq: EMA 3010, CHM
2046, PHY 3048, or equivalents. Techniques for depositing thin
metallic semiconductor and dielectric films. The relationships
between deposition technique and thin film properties. Properties
unique to thin films.
EMA 6105: Fundamentals and Applications of Surface Science
(3) Prereq: CHM 2045, MAP 2302, or consent of instructor.
Fundamental and experimental description of phenomena occurring
at surface of solids, including structure, composition, atomic and
molecular processes, and electronic properties. Experimental
approaches and data used to support theoretical models.
EMA 6106: Advanced Phase Diagrams (3) Phase diagrams
considering systems with as many as four components; emphasis
on pressure temperature composition diagrams.
EMA 6107: High Temperature Materials (3) Physical and
mechanical metallurgy. Principles of strengthening alloys, alloy and
process selection, alloy development, and design principles for
elevated temperature applications.
EMA 6109: Physical Chemistry of High Temperature Materials
(3) Interrelated aspects of solid state chemistry critical to materials
science and chemical education. Science behind adapting inorganic
materials for specific purposes making matter do what is wanted by
positioning atoms in their proper structures
EMA 6110: Electron Theory of Solids for Materials Scientists I
(3) Wave equation and its application to free electrons, bound
electrons, and electrons in crystals. Electron-band theory and its
applications. Electrical properties of metals, alloys, and
semiconductors, heat capacity and thermal properties.
EMA 6111: Electron Theory of Solids for Materials Scientists II
(3) Atomistic (classical) and electron theory of optical properties of
metals, alloys, and dielectrics. Nonlinear optics, lasers. Ramanspectra.
EMA 6114: Advanced Materials Principles 2 (3) Prereq: EMA
6313. Structure, properties, processing, and applications of
semiconductors, metals, ceramics, polymers, and biomaterials.
Structure and properties of thin films, surfaces, and interfaces.
EMA 6128: Materials Microstructures (3) Prereq: EMA 6316 or
equivalent. Geometry of microstructures: kinematics and kinetics of
microstructural evolution in materials processing.