Solid State Sciences (Minor Program)

GRADUATE FACULTY

University Professor G. Lucovsky, Chair

Professors: D. E. Aspnes, K. J. Bachmann, S. M. Bedair, J. Bernholc, R. F. Davis, R. E. Fornes, J. R. Hauser, J. J. Hren, M. A. Littlejohn, R. M. Kolbas, J. Narayan, R. J. Nemanich, M. A. Paesler, G. Rozgonyi, P. E. Russell, J. F. Schetzina, A. F. Schreiner, E. O. Stejskal, M. H. Whangbo, J. J. Wortman

The university offers courses of study leading to a minor in solid state sciences as part of the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees. This option is available to all graduate students pursuing research in the broad area of solid state science and requires that a member of the solid state sciences faculty serve on the student's research committee.

Solid state sciences is an interdisciplinary area of research that applies and extends concepts from the traditional academic disciplines of chemistry, electrical and computer engineering, materials science and engineering, and physics to basic and applied problems with a primary focus on solid state materials. At NC State, there are a significant number of such research programs that involve faculty and students in more than one of the academic departments listed above. This minor program can be customized to provide a course complement for these ongoing programs, as well as for any additional solid state materials research programs as they are initiated, developed and implemented.

To fulfill the academic requirements for a minor in solid state sciences, each master's student must successfully complete at least three, and each doctoral student, four of the courses in the solid states sciences curriculum. A partial listing of courses in this program includes: CH 701, 703 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I, II; CH 731 Chemical Thermodynamics; CH 733 Chemical Kinetics; CH 737 Quantum Chemistry; ECE 730 Physical Electronics; ECE 739 Integrated Circuit Technology and Fabrication; ECE 723 Optical Properties of Semiconductors; ECE 724 Electronic Properties of Solid State Devices; ECE (PY) 727 Semiconductor Thin Films Technology; MAT 712 Scanning Electron Microscopy; MAT 715 Fundamentals of Transmission Electron Microscopy; MAT 560 Materials Science and Processing of Semiconductor Devices; MAT 795 Advanced Materials Experiments; MAT 722 Advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy and Surface Analysis; MAT 770 Defects, Diffusion and Ion Implantation in Semiconductors; MAT 792 Advanced Topics in Materials Science and Engineering; PY (ECE) 552 Introduction to the Structure of Solids. In addition, other courses (for example, special topics courses in any one of the participating departments) may also be substituted into an individual student's designated solid state sciences minor program at the discretion of his/her committee.