Undergraduate Electronic Materials Laboratory

本科生电子材料实验室

• 批准号: 9981055
• 负责人: Toby Cumberbatch
• 金额: $ 5.74万
• 依托单位: Cooper Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-01-01 至 2002-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9981055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Electronic; Materials; Laboratory

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.

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，正是在电气工程中，材料（即，固态）已经产生了它们最显著的影响。对于未来的工程师来说，了解电子材料是一项重要而艰巨的任务。它需要学习复杂的新概念，这些概念应该通过简单，复杂，但精心设计的项目和课堂演示在工程研究的早期引入。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生电子材料实验室，作为新电子材料课程的平台。新实验室的大部分设备通常在应用物理实验室中找到，但它显然适用于电子工程。设备包括一个薄膜沉积系统，敏感的电气测量设备，光学分析系统和低温恒温器。因此，学生将能够制造简单的固态器件，如太阳能电池，并在很宽的温度范围内表征它们的行为以及大块材料的行为。然后，库珀联盟的教师可以评估仪器在相关的新的跨学科课程中的作用，并证明在其他工程学院的适用性。该实验室是化学和物理课程的一个组成部分，从而达到每一个库珀联盟工程学生。为了适应学生的不同技能水平和不同的教学目的，设备是专门选择其操作下的自动或手动控制。学生们能够自由地进行实验，并完成现在只能讨论的创新项目。通过新实验室，学生可以探索各种晶体和非晶体电子材料的电学和光学特性，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。新的实验室是至关重要的准备学生为下一个千年。