Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials

Harvard FAS

This course covers the electrical, optical and magnetic properties of technologically important materials. It provides a quantitative description of their functional properties including dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric behavior, and their paramagnetic and ferromagnetic states. Electronic characteristics of semiconductors, dielectric materials, and superconductors will be covered, as well as the optical response including birefringence, Pockels effect, Kerr effect, and…