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21-Mat-B10 Properties and Processing of Micro- and Nanomaterials

Worked solutions to 2 past sittings (2013–2018), 12 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2018

  1. Question 1: Minimum Conductivity, Carrier Fraction and Temperature Dependence of a Silver Wire
  2. Question 2: Silicon Resistivity, Intrinsic Current Split and Phosphorus Doping
  3. Question 3: Photon Emission in In-Doped Silicon and an Alumina Multilayer Capacitor
  4. Question 4: Band Structures of Metals, Semiconductors and Insulators at 0 K
  5. Question 5: Meissner Effect, BCS Theory and the Seebeck/Thermocouple Effect
  6. Question 6: Sketches of Electronic, Dielectric, Magnetic and Superconducting Property Dependences

May 2013

  1. Question 1: Porosity of a Silver-Infiltrated Tungsten Contact
  2. Question 2: Conduction in Copper — Carrier Fraction, Wire Sizing and Drift Velocity
  3. Question 3: Doping Germanium for a Target Conductivity
  4. Question 4: Intrinsic GaAs — Conductivity, Thermal Sensitivity and Current Split
  5. Question 5: Photon Emission in In-Doped Silicon and an Alumina Multilayer Capacitor
  6. Question 6: Sketches of Electronic, Dielectric, Magnetic and Superconducting Property Dependences