Courses in the winter semester

Overview of all (B) bachelor's and (M) master's courses offered by the IHF in the winter semester.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kowalsky

Crystalline solids
Reciprocal lattice
X-ray diffraction
Semiconductor materials
Phonons
Dielectric properties of insulators, local electric field, atomic polarizability, displacement polarization, orientation polarization, Kramers-Kronig relations
Special effects in crystals, dielectric tensor, birefringence, index ellipsoid, linear optical effect
Ferro-, antiferro- and ferrielectrics
Electromechanical interaction, electrostriction, piezoelectricity, electromechanical coupling equations
Dielectric properties of semiconductors, fundamental absorption, plasma effect, residual band, refractive index spectra
Thermal properties of insulators, specific heat, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity; dia- and paramagnetism
Ferro-, antiferro- and ferrimagnetism

Event: ET-IHF-25 (5 CP)

Lecture: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kowalsky
Exercise: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kowalsky

Equations and inequalities with one or more variables, handling complications such as case distinctions
Real and complex numbers (calculation of alternating current circuits)
Vector spaces, orthogonality, norm, basis (RMS, power, SNR)
Linear mappings and matrices, linear equation systems, LR and Gauss methods (passive linear circuits)
Gram-Schmidt, projection (idea of Fourier analysis)
Determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, principal axis transformation
Ordinary differential equations, systems of linear differential equations of the first order (wave equations, wave equation, resonant circuit/harmonic oscillator)

Event: ET-STDE-48 (8 CP)

Lecture: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schöbel
Exercise: NN

Theory of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields (Maxwell's equations, wave equations, energy conservation, uniqueness theorem, reciprocity)
Calculation methods (vector potentials, Lorentz gauge, solution of the (in)homogeneous wave equation, source integrals, Green's function)
Eigenwaves of waveguides, surface waves, leakage waves
Radiation fields (Huygens principle, image theory, Fresnel and Fraunhofer approximation)
Introduction to the numerical calculation of electromagnetic problems: (FDTD, moment method, eigenwave development)
Exemplary implementation of solution methods in Matlab or Python
Calculation of electromagnetic structures with commercial 3D EM software

Event: ET-IHF-49 (6 CP)

Lecture: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Schöbel
Exercise: Dr.-Ing. Carsten Monka-Ewe