Final Review Flashcards
What is Elastic Deformation?
a change in material shape that is reversible
What is Plastic Deformation?
a permanent change in material shape when applied force to it
What is stress?
the amount of load (tensile or compressive) on a material that causes deformation
What is the formula for stress?
instantaneous applied force / original surface area = N/m^2 = Pa
What is strain?
relative deformation, % of deformation in material
What is the formula for strain?
delta (change in length) / L (original length) = epsilon
unit-less, expressed as percentage
What is Young’s modulus?
slope of stress strain curve that describes stiffness of a material by stress / strain = psi or Pa
What is yielding strength?
resistance to elastic deformation, when plastic deformation initiates
the stress level at which plastic def begins
initial departure from the linear portion of stress-strain curve
What is tensile strength?
Maximum load-bearing capacity, occurs when necking is observable
What is ductility?
degree of plastic deformation at fracture
What is toughness?
area under the curve, energy absorbing due to plastic deformation
What is the conventional definition of yield strength?
delta y, the stress at a strain offset of 0.2%
How to calculate percent elongation at fracture?
final length - original length / original length
Brittle: < 5%
Ductile: large percentage
What does an elastomer stress-strain curve look?
very shallow slope, almost flat
Difference in Eg for insulators and semiconductors?
Insulators: Eg > 2eV
Semiconductors: Eg < 2 eV
What is the band structure of insulators and semiconductors?
completely filled valence band
empty conduction band
energy gap exists between the two bands
Fermi energy exists in band gap
2 band structures of metals?
partially filled valence band with large band gap (Na 3s1)
filled valence band that overlaps with conduction band (Mg 3s2)
What is the Fermi energy?
Ef = energy corresponding to the highest filled state at 0 K
Insulator band structure
wide band gap > 2eV
heat excitation of electron is difficult
light excitation of electron is easier (hv > Eg)
Uv absorption or blue at 2 eV = 621 nm
Semiconductor band structure
narrow band gap < 2eV
electron excitation easily through heat
optical absorption in IR or visible range
Intrinsic Semiconductor
Behavior dependent on elemental properties
Group IV: Si, Ge
Compounds : II-VI (CdS, ZnTe) and III-V (GaAs, InP)
Larger EN- difference, more ionic bonds, larger band gap
excitation of each electron to conduction band produce one free and hole electron
Extrinsic Semiconductor
Behavior dictated by impurities
Types of charge carriers in semiconductor?
Free electron, e-: in conduction band, e- = -1.6*10^-19C
Holes, h+: in valence band, h+ = 1.6*10-^-19C
Intrinsic property related to temperature?
more electrons are thermally excited under high temperature
What is electron scattering?
contributes to the resistance to the passage of an electric current, related to lift velocity
What is drift velocity?
average electron velocity in direction of field
vd = uE
u = electron mobility (indication of scattering frequency)
What affects mobility?
amount of e scattering
n-type dopant
Group V element replaces a Group IV atom so there is an extra single electron, mostly in conduction band, less in valence band
p-type dopant
Group III element replaces Group IV element so there’s a hole and filled by adjacent electron leaving another hole, more charge holes than free electrons
Extrinsic semiconductor and temperature
Low T: population of the donor band
Intermediate T: donor band fully populated, constant e- concentration
High T: conduction band becomes populated by thermal excitation of electrons in donor band and valence band