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EX-504 (C) · Electrical and Electronic Materials/Official Syllabus

Electrical and Electronic Materials (EX-504 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Crystal Structure and Conducting Materials

  • Crystal structure of materials, crystal systems, unit cells and space lattices and defects
  • Classes of Engineering Materials – Metals & alloys, ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, low alloy steels, aluminium alloys, copper alloys, stainless steels, cast iron, ceramics, organic polymers and composite material
  • Classification of solids from electrical engineering point of view
  • Conducting material – properties of conductors, characteristics of good conductor material, commonly used conducting materials
  • conductor materials for overhead lines, types of conductors, conductor for underground cables, conductor materials used in electrical machines, resistor materials, types of resistors, materials for bus bar
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Unit 2

Dielectric Materials and Insulating Materials

  • Dielectric Materials: Dielectric strength, factors affecting dielectric strength, dielectric loss, dissipation factor, factors affecting dielectric loss, permittivity & polarization
  • charging and discharging of dielectric, conduction through dielectric
  • Application of dielectric, different types of capacitors and materials used for them
  • Insulating materials, their– thermal and chemical, mechanical & electrical property
  • Insulating materials like ceramic, mica, glass, rubber, resins, wax varnishes, Class of insulator
  • Transformer oils & their testing
  • Piezoelectricity & Ferro electricity
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Unit 3

Semiconductor Materials

  • Concept of energy band diagram for materials - conductors, semiconductors and insulators
  • Applications of semi conductor materials: type of semi conductors, working and applications of semiconductors
  • Temperature sensitive elements, photoconductive cells, photo voltaic cells; Varistor, Hall effect generator, LCD, Light dependent resistors, LEDs, piezo – electric materials
  • semiconductor laser and its characteristics, photo conductors – photo diodes, avalanche photo diode, photo transistors
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Unit 4

Classification of Magnetic Materials

  • Classification of magnetic materials: Dia-magnetism, Para magnetism, Ferro-magnetism
  • magnetization curve, hysteresis loop, Magnetostriction, Factors affecting permeability and hysteresis
  • Anti – ferromagnetism, Ferromagnetism, Magnetic resonance, B-H curve for different magnetic materials
  • loss of magnetism, impurities in ferromagnetic materials, soft and hard magnetic materials, ferrites
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Unit 5

Advanced Materials and Superconductivity

  • Superconductivity & it’s application
  • Materials of MHD generator, Thermoelectric generators, Thermionic conductors
  • Physical properties &Electrical properties of SF6, Specification of SF6 gas for GIS application, Advantages and Applications of SF6
  • Nanomaterials, Ultra Light materials and metallic foams

Reference Books

  • Electrical Engineering Materials — A.J. Dekker — PHI
  • Material science and engineering — William F Smith, JavadHashemi, Ravi Prakash — McGraw Hill
  • Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers — James F. Shackelford, Madanapalli K. Muralidhara — Pearson
  • Materials Science for Electrical and Electronics Engineers — Ian P. Jones — Oxford university press
  • Electrical Engineering Materials — C. S. Indulkar, S. Thruvengadem — S. Chand
  • Electrical Engineering Materials — TTTI Madras — TMH
  • Electrical Engineering Material s & Devices — John Allison — TMH
  • Electronic Materials and devices — Kasap — TMH
  • Material Science & Engineering — V. Raghvan — PHI
  • Electrical Engineering Materials — S.P. Seth, P.V. Gupta — Dhanpat Rai
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