SYLLABUS

University: Technical University of Košice

Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Department: Department of Physics

Course Number: 2619011

Course Name: Materials at Extreme Conditions

Type, scope and method of learning activities:
Course Type: Lecture, Seminar
Recommended scope of the course content (in hours):
Full-time study (hours per week): 2,2
Part-time study (hours per semester): WT 26,26
Study Method: Attendance

Number of credits: 6

Recommended semester of study: WT

Recommended semester

Study programme

Study grade

Study Method

2.rok WT

Physical Engineering of Advanced Materials (FIPM_Ing_D_sk)

Master

Attendance

Level of study:

Prerequisites:

Course completion requirements:
Assessment and completion of the course: Credit test and examination
Continuous assessment: Student passes the continuous assessment and receives credits when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 21% out of 40%.
Individual elaboration of problems, written test
Final assessment: Student passes the final assessment and passes the examination when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 31% out of 60%.
Exam in written form (examples + theory)
Overall assessment: Overall assessment is the sum of the assessments obtained by students in the assessment period. The overall result is determined in accordance with the internal regulations of the Technical University in Košice. (Study Regulations, the internal regulation principles of doctoral studies)

Learning outcomes:
To provide students knowledge about the principles and methods of the obtaining of extreme conditions, about the techniques of measurements of the basic physical quantities at this conditions and about the influence of extreme conditions as ultra low temperatures, high pressures and high magnetic fields on the basic physical properties of condensed materials.

Brief course content:
- The principles for obtaining of ultra-low temperatures: dilution refrigerators, adiabatic demagnetization of a paramagnetic salt and adiabatic nuclear demagnetization, Pomeranchuk cooling, demagnetization of solid 3He.
- The definition of the temperature scale at low temperatures.
- Measurements of ultralow temperatures: primary and secondary thermometry. Nuclear orientation thermometer, noise thermometer, thermometry on the base of nuclear magnetic resonance and mechanical resonators.
- The properties of solids at low- and ultralow temperatures: thermodynamic, electrical and magnetic properties, superconductivity and superfluidity.
- Methods of obtaining and measurement of high pressures: design and construction of pressure cells, physical principles of the high - pressure measurements. Measurements of physical quantities at high pressures.
- Mechanical, electrical and magnetic properties of solids at high pressures, the influence of pressure for the material structures, quantum phase transitions.
- Methods for obtaining of high magnetic fields, static and pulsed magnetic fields. Resistive, superconducting and hybrid magnets. - Determination of high magnetic fields. Force interaction between magnets.
- Physical properties of solids in high magnetic fields, Hall effect, the influence of magnetic fields for the superconductivity and superfluidity.

Recommended Reference Sources:
[1] Kittel Ch.: Introduction to Solid State Physics, Academia 1985
[2] Kavečanský V.: Solid State Physics, UPJŠ 1983, skriptá
[3] Jánoš Š.: Physics of Low Temperatures, ALFA Bratislava 1980
[4] Jelínek J., Málek Z.: Cryogenic Technics, SNTL Praha 1982

Recommended optional program components:

Languages required for the course completion: Slovak, English

Notes:

Course assessment:
Total number of students assessed: 17

76%

24%

Teacher:
doc. RNDr. Ing. Jozef Onufer, PhD.

Last modified: 31.08.2022

Approved by: person(s) responsible for the study program