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(940) 565-3260
Fax: (940) 565-4824
Web site: www.mtsc.unt.edu
Professors: Brostow, Kaufman. Associate Professors: Banerjee, D’Souza, Reidy. Assistant Professors: El Bouanani, Gorman, Scharf, Shepherd.
The Department of Materials Science and Engineering addresses the education and technological challenges of creating, applying and characterizing new materials for the 21st century. The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is committed to training students at the graduate level in all aspects of modern materials including metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic and optical materials and materials characterization. Students have opportunities for hands-on research with modern equipment and facilities. The department has strong collaborative programs with other universities in the Dallas–Fort Worth region and with industries throughout the world. Students have an opportunity to develop highly marketable skills and have readily obtained jobs with high-technology companies in electronics, chemical, electric power and environmental industries and in academia.
Undergraduate students who are interested in materials science and engineering may enroll in specialized undergraduate research courses with the consent of their adviser and the graduate adviser of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
The Laboratory of Polymers and Composites works on reliability and prediction of service performance, polymer liquid crystals and their blends, fiber reinforced composites and polymer solutions. Mechanical, thermophysical and rheological properties are investigated using computer simulations, statistical mechanics and a variety of experimental techniques (DMTA, TMA, TSD, DSC, TGA, PV-T relations, computerized tension, compressions, blending and impact testing).
The Electron Microscopy Laboratory currently houses an FEI Tecnai F20ST TEM, an FEI Analytical Dual Beam FIB, an FEI Quanta Environmental SEM, an Imago Local Electrode Atom Probe, a Phillips EM420 TEM, a JEOL 5800 SEM and several optical microscopes for characterization of virtually any material. This equipment is being used to characterize a whole range of materials including semiconductors, nanocomposites, crystalline and amorphous alloys, advanced ceramics, polymers and polymer composites, and biomaterials.
The Material Mechanics Laboratory is engaged in investigations of interrelationships between morphology and mechanical properties through the influences of time and temperature. A Mechanical Testing System (MTS810) equipped with an environmental chamber, video, and thermal wave imaging provides stress pattern-temperature relationships around propagating cracks. Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis provides viscoelastic and rheological property evaluation. The laboratory is also engaged in thermally stimulated depolarization experimental techniques of polymer blends.
The Materials Synthesis and Processing Laboratory has research interests focused on the development of ferroelectrics, aerogels, and other novel ceramics for energy, sensor and high temperature applications. Equipment includes a critical point dryer, a BET surface area analyzer, electrical conductivity apparatus, high temperature furnaces and a controlled atmosphere glove box.
The Laboratory for Electronic Materials and Devices is working on basic and applied research for novel materials for advanced electronic devices of all kinds. The laboratory provides semiconductor-related materials growth and characterization capabilities that are available in only a few academic laboratories in the world. The laboratory is centered around a cluster multichamber MBE Group IV Metallization and Dielectric deposition system, coupled to a comprehensive surface science system as well as a 3 MV ion beam accelerator for in-situ materials processing and characterization. Research areas include growth, processing and characterization of novel electronic thin film materials such as dielectrics, advanced electrode materials with work function tuning, metallization, diffusion barriers, hydrogen and impurity defects in electronic nanostructures, stability, and interfacial diffusion/reaction in multilayered thin film nanostructures.
The Energy Materials Laboratory works on research that addresses the processing, characterization, and overall device development for energy conversion technologies. Low-temperature processing of ceramic thin films is achieved through the development of oxide polymeric precursors and colloidal suspensions. Deposition techniques such as laser assisted maskless aerosol deposition and spin coating are also studied. Applications of these materials processing techniques include transparent conducting oxides for flexible photovoltaics and displays, low operation temperature thin film solid oxide fuel cells, direct conversion of biofuels, and UV-Vis emitters and phosphors for solid state lighting. Extensive overlap exists between the Energy Materials Laboratory and the Electron Microscopy Laboratory. Additional characterization is available in this laboratory through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometry, and X-ray diffraction.
The department offers graduate programs in the following areas:
All Courses of Instruction are located in one section at the back of this catalog.
The “Course and Subject Guide,” found in the Courses of Instruction section of this book, serves as a table of contents and provides quick access to subject areas and prefixes.
Date of initial release: July 1, 2006 — Copyright © 2006 University of North Texas
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June 15, 2006
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