Undergraduate Electronic Materials Laboratory

工程-电气(55)近年来，材料科学在我们社会中的作用急剧增长。自20世纪60年代以来，材料(即固态材料)在电气工程领域产生了最重大的影响。对于未来的工程师来说，理解电子材料是一项至关重要但困难的任务。它需要学习复杂的新概念，这些概念应该在工程研究的早期通过简单、复杂但设计良好的项目和课堂演示来引入。为此，库珀联盟正在创建一个便携式、模块化和适应性强的本科电子材料实验室，作为新的电子材料课程的平台。新实验室的许多设备经常在应用物理实验室中找到，但它在电子工程中有明显的应用。设备包括薄膜沉积系统、灵敏的电测量设备、光学分析系统和低温恒温器。因此，学生们将能够制造简单的固态设备，如太阳能电池，并在广泛的温度范围内将它们的行为与块状材料的行为一起表征。然后，库珀联盟的教职员工可以评估该仪器在相关跨学科课程中的作用，并展示其在其他工程学院的适用性。实验室是化学和物理课程不可或缺的一部分，因此可以接触到库珀联合工程学院的每一名学生。为了适应学生不同的技能水平和不同的教学目的，该设备是专门为其在自动或手动控制下操作而选择的。学生们可以自由地进行实验，完成现在只能讨论的创新项目。有了这个新的实验室，学生们可以探索各种晶体和非晶体电子材料的电学和光学性质，包括温度和电导率之间的关系，并研究辐射复合和能带结构的原理。新的实验室对学生为下一个千年做好准备至关重要。

Engineering - Electrical (55)The role of materials science in our society has grown dramatically in recent years. Since the 1960s, it is in electrical engineering that materials (i.e., solid state) have had their most significant impact. For future engineers, understanding electronic materials is a vital yet difficult undertaking. It entails learning complex new concepts, which should be introduced early in engineering studies through simple, sophisticated, yet well-designed projects and classroom demonstrations. To that end, The Cooper Union is creating an undergraduate Electronic Materials Laboratory portable, modular, and adaptable - to serve as a platform for a new electronic materials curriculum.Much of the new laboratory's equipment is often found in applied physics laboratories, yet it has clear application to electronic engineering. Equipment includes a thin-film deposition system, sensitive electrical measuring equipment, an optical analysis system, and cryostats. Students will thus be able to fabricate simple solid state devices, such as solar cells, and characterize their behavior together with that of the bulk material over a wide range of temperatures. Cooper Union faculty can then evaluate the role of the instrumentation in relevant new interdisciplinary coursework, and demonstrate applicability at other schools of engineering. The laboratory is an integral part of chemistry and physics courses, thereby reaching every Cooper Union-engineering student.To accommodate students' varying skill levels and different instructional purposes, the equipment is specially selected for its operation under automatic or manual control. Students are able to experiment freely and complete innovative projects that now only can be discussed. With the new lab, students can explore electrical and optical properties of varied crystalline and non-crystalline electronic materials, including the relationship between temperature and conductivity, and investigate principles of radiative recombination and band structure. The new lab is crucial in preparing students for the next millennium.