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The document outlines a tutorial for a Materials Science and Engineering course, focusing on electrical properties and calculations related to metals, capacitors, and semiconductors. It includes problems on current carrying capacity, capacitance, dielectric materials, ferroelectricity, and semiconductor doping. Various tables provide electrical conductivities and dielectric constants for different materials, facilitating the calculations required in the exercises.

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Tutorial 5 2025

The document outlines a tutorial for a Materials Science and Engineering course, focusing on electrical properties and calculations related to metals, capacitors, and semiconductors. It includes problems on current carrying capacity, capacitance, dielectric materials, ferroelectricity, and semiconductor doping. Various tables provide electrical conductivities and dielectric constants for different materials, facilitating the calculations required in the exercises.

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UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

Faculty : LKC FES Unit Code : UEME1343


Course : CL, ME, MT, MH, PH Unit Title : Materials Science and
Engineering
Year/ : Year 1/ Trimester 1, Lecturer/ :
Trimester Year 1/ Trimester 2, Tutor
Year 2/Trimester 1

Session : June 2025

Tutorial No. 5

1. A cylindrical metal wire 5 mm in diameter is required to carry a current of 24 A with a minimum of 0.1
V drop per meter 300 mm of wire. Which of the metals and alloys listed as below are the possible
candidates?
Table 5.1 Electrical conductivities of metals
Metal Electrical Conductivity (ohm.m)-1
Silver 6.8 × 107
Copper 6.0 × 107
Gold 4.3 × 107
Aluminum 3.8 × 107
Brass 1.6 × 107
Iron 1.0 × 107
Platinum 0.94 × 107
Plain carbon steel 0.6 × 107
Stainless steel 0.2 × 107

2. Calculate the capacitance of a parallel-plate capacitor containing five layers of mica for which each
mica sheet is 1 cm × 2 cm × 0.005 cm. The layers are connected in parallel. The dielectric constant of
mica is 7.

3. A copper wire 100 m long must experience a voltage drop of less than 1.5 V when a current of 2.5 A
passes through it. The electrical conductivity of copper is 6.0 × 107 (ohm.m)-1. Design the minimum
diameter of the wire to fulfill the requirement.

4. A parallel-plate capacitor with dimensions of 120 mm by 30 mm and a plate separation of 3 mm must


have a minimum capacitance of 38 pF (3.8 × 10-11 F) when an alternating potential of 500 V is applied
at a frequency of 1 MHz. Which of the following materials are the possible candidates?

Table 5.2 Dielectric constant of several materials


Dielectric Constant
60 Hz 1 MHz
Soda-lime glass 6.9 6.9
Porcelain 6.0 6.0
Fused silica 4.0 3.8
Phenol-formaldehyde 5.3 4.8
Nylon 6,6 4.0 3.6
Polystyrene 2.6 2.6
Polyethylene 2.3 2.3
PTFE 2.1 2.1
5. Briefly explain the following (a) ferroelectricity of barium titanate BaTiO3 (b) how is the ferroelectric
behaviour of BaTiO3 ceases when heated above its ferroelectric Curie temperature.

6. The following electrical characteristics have been determined both intrinsic and p-type extrinsic indium
phosphide (InP) at room temperature. Calculate electron and hole mobilities.

Table 5.3 Electrical characteristics


σ (ohm.m)-1 n (m-3) p (m-3)
-6
Intrinsic 2.5 × 10 3.0 × 1013 3.0 × 1013
-5
Extrinsic (n-type) 3.6 × 10 4.5 × 1014 2.0 × 1012

7. Consider a parallel-plate capacitor having an area of 2800 mm2 and a plate separation of 4 mm, and with
a material of dielectric constant 4.0 positioned between the plates. Compute the electric field that must
be applied for 8.0 × 10-9 C to be stored on each plate.

8. Determine whether each of the following elements act as a donor or an acceptor when added to the
indicated semiconducting material? Assume that the impurity elements are substitutional.

Table 5.4 Impurity and Semiconductor


Impurity Semiconductor
P Ge
S AIP
In CdTe
Al Si
Cd GaAs
Sb ZnSe

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