Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Help lead and complete a major development project, individually or in teams, related to chemistry.
• Mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired.
• Assess the degree of complexity of the project and take into account the objectives, allocated resources and constraints that characterise it.
• Demonstrate independence and their ability to work alone or in teams.
• Manage research, development and innovation within chemistry and/or its applications.
• Possibly propose innovative solutions to targeted problems, which also requires attentiveness and mutual respect, as well as argue and establish constructive debates.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Possess a general view over electrical, optical and magnetic properties of solids; understand the microscopic mechanisms explaining these properties.
About the applications, be able to understand examples the working principles of basic electronic components (diodes, transistors, LED, solar cells, etc...).

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

structure of the solids ; bonding types ; vibrations and thermal properties ; Sommerfeld's theory of metals ; band theory ; semiconductors ; thermoelectric properties ; optical and magnetic properties ; examples of applications

Prior Experience

differential equations ; vector and matrix calculus ; complex numbers ; quantum physics (equation of Schrödinger, Dirac's notations, notion of electron spin) ; general electricity (electrical and magnetic fields, potential and potential vector, electrical current, Maxwell's equations) ; mechanics (forces, momentum, energy, kinetic energy theorem, conservatives systems, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian).