| Course label : | Physical measurements and characterisations |
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| Teaching departement : | CMA / |
| Teaching manager : | Mister FREDERIC CAZAUX |
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| Potential ects : | 0 |
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| Code and label (hp) : | MR_MIAE_S3_MPC - Mesures physiques et caractéri |
Education team
Teachers : Mister FREDERIC CAZAUX
External contributors (business, research, secondary education): various temporary teachers
Summary
Brief programme: physics of semiconductors; techniques for measuring their physical properties; application to thermoelectricity. This module covers the physics of semiconductor materials through techniques for measuring their physical properties (essentially electrical and thermal) and through one of their specific applications for energy conversion and thermoelectricity, which makes it possible to convert heat into electricity or vice versa.
Educational goals
- Know how to define the physical quantities that determine the properties of a semiconductor material: electrical and thermal conductivity, Seebeck coefficient, figure of merit - Know how to describe and explain in a clear and concise manner the different methods for measuring these quantities - Be able to explain how a thermoelectric generator works - Know how to state the major families of thermoelectric materials, their advantages and disadvantages and the various current improvement strategies - Know how to read an in-depth scientific article in English and be able to implement a bibliographic strategy to understand all its concepts and purposes - Be able to understand a scientific issue through articles from scientific journals.
Sustainable development goals
Knowledge control procedures
Continuous Assessment
Comments: Continuous assessment using the project/problem-based learning approach (oral presentations + written reports) (50%) and a final exam (50%) (written exam)
Online resources
The necessary course and bibliographic elements are available on the course's Moodle page as well as on dedicated websites (Web of Science, bibliographic research via the Lilliad centre, etc.)
Pedagogy
In-person course - Case studies - The course is in French but the bibliographical documents are in English - The entire module uses the project/problem-based learning approach and the Lilliad centre's resources for this purpose (rooms and laptops)
Sequencing / learning methods
| Number of hours - Lectures : | 10 |
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| Number of hours - Tutorial : | 14 |
| Number of hours - Practical work : | 4 |
| Number of hours - Seminar : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Half-group seminar : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TEA (Autonomous learning) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TNE (Non-supervised activities) : | 0 |
| Number of hours in CB (Fixed exams) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in PER (Personal work) : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Projects : | 0 |
Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites, concepts of physics from the first and second years (L1 and L2)