Conducting materials serves as carriers of electric current. They generally show a fairly low or preset resistivity. This class includes superconducting and cryoconducting materials, whose resistivity at very low temperature is rather small, and also high-resistivity materials used for resistors and electrical heating elements.
Semiconducting materials are employed where it is required to produce devices with a conductance controllable by voltage, temperature, illumination, and other factors. These materials are used for the manufacture of diodes, transistors, thermistors, photoresistors, and other semiconductor devices.
Dielectrics are mainly used as elecrtical insulating materials due to their resistivity. The purpose they served in this case is to impede the flow of electric current along the routes hazardous to the operation of a device. In capacitors, dielectric materials are used to provide for a specified capacitance.
Active dielectrics differ from common dielectrics (electrical insulating materials) in that they take an active part in the operation of an electric circuit; the components made from these materials serve to generate, amplify, modulate, and shape electric signals. Active dielectrics include materials applied in lasers and masers, as well as ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics, electrooptic and nonlinear- optic materials, electrets, and others.
Magnetic materials are capable to remain in this state after removal of the magnetic field. In contrast, nonmagnetic materials cannot be magnetized when placed in a magnetic field. Magnetic materials go into the manufacture of cores for inductors and transformers, magnetic memory devices, permanent magnets, and so on.
By their states of aggregation, electrical and radio engineering materials are classified into solids, liquids, and gases. In radio electronics, use is also made of the fourth state of matter, called plasma, which can originate, for instance, attendant upon dielectric breakdown.
Structurally, solid materials can be monocrystalline, polycrystalline, amorphous, and amorphous-crystalline.
Monocrystals are homogeneous anisotropic substances which display a regular arrangement of atoms throughout the entire volume and consists of periodically repeating identical crystal cells. By the kinds of crystal symmetry, all crystals can be divided into 32 classes that fall under 7 crystal systems. The electrical and magnetic properties of crystals that fall into different systems and classes vary substantially.
Polycrystalline materials consists of a large number of small crystal grains grown together and randomly oriented in various directions. These included metals and many ceramic materials. Polycrystalline substances are usually isotropic. But if the crystal grains are made oriented in a certain direction (for example, by mechanical treatment of a metal, or polarization of ferroelectric ceramics), a metal becomes anisotropic. Such substances with an artificially created anisotropy are called grain-oriented or texture materials.
Amorphous materials lack an ordered arrangement of atoms. These are solidified liquids, which are formed with lowering temperature due to a comparatively fast rise in viscosity that impedes the motion of molecules and thus prevents the formation and growth of crystals. Glasses and reins are examples of amorphous materials.
Amorphous-crystalline materials are partially crystallised amorphous substances. Such a structure is inherent in most polymers. When submitted to elevated temperature, glasses of certain compositions tend to crystallise; minute crystals that form in a molten glass during cooling render it opaque, and the glass transforms into an amorphous-crystalline material called a nucleated or devitrified glass.
Exercises:
I. Memorize the following words and word combinations:
II. Find the Kazakh (Russian) equivalents to the following word combinations:
А) Auxiliary parts; fabrication of wires; materials are exposed to a magnetic field; show preset resistivity; to impede the flow of electric current; a regular arrangement of atoms; randomly oriented crystal cells; ceramic materials.
В) керамические материалы; вспомогательные детали; правильный порядок в расположении атомов; на материалы воздействует магнитное поле; хаотически ориентированные в разных направлениях; кристаллические ячейки; обладают заданным удельным сопротивлением; изготовление проводов; препятствовать прохождению тока.
С) керамикалық материалдар; көмектескіш бөлшектер; атомдар орналасуындағы дұрыс реттілік; материалдарға магниттік өріс әсер етеді; әр түрлі бағыттарда хаосты бағдарланған; кристалл ұяшықтар; берілген меншікті кедергіге ие; сымдар дайындау; тоқ өтуіне кедергі жасау.
III. Translate into English using the active vocabulary of the lesson:
IV. Translate at sight
Advanced experimental methods, such as thin-foil electron microscope or neutron diffraction analysis, made it possible to study elements and defects of crystal structures and the laws of transformations in materials underthe influence of external factors (temperature, pressure, etc.).Analysis of the physical (density, electrical and thermal conductivity, magnetic modulus, etc), technological (fluidity, deformability, machinability, etc), and operating properties (corrosion and wear resistance, fatigue strength, heat and cold resistance, etc) are helpful in determining the most rational and efficient applications for various materials.
V. Retell the text.
Different types of bonds
There are ionic, atomic (covalent), metallic, and molecular bonds between the atoms of substances. The materials obtained from substances, which display various types of chemical bonding greatly differ in electric and other properties.
The ionic bond is attributed to the forces of electrostatic attraction between positive and negative ions. Such a bond is most characteristic of inorganic dielectrics whose compositions contain ions of unlike charges, such as
The atomic (covalent) bond is created between atoms owing to the formation of shared pairs of valence electrons of its neighbor. Such an electron pair strongly binds the atoms by virtue of the exchange interaction between oppositely spin-type and orbital magnetic moments of electrons. Unlike the ionic bond, the atomic bond displays a directional character, i.e. it is oriented in the direction of the most dense population of paired electrons. Therefore, substances with atomic bonding are generally hard and brittle. Example of such substances are crystals of germanium, silicon, diamond, and compounds SiC and BN, whose elements fall into middle groups of the periodic table. Atomic bonding is also typical for the molecules of such gases as H2, O2, N2, and also for the molecules of many organic compounds, such as polyethylene, (C2H4)n, and polytetrafluoroethylene, (C2F4)n.
The metallic bond is the bond established between positively charged metal ions by collective valence electrons that have detached from atoms. The electron gas has a cementing action on the crystal structure of metals and responsible for their high thermal and electric conductivity. The nondirectional character of bonding accounts for high ductility of metal.
The molecular bond occurs between individual molecules which cling together due to the electrostatic forces of attraction (van der Waals forces) between unlike charges of the molecules. The bonds of this type hold together the molecules of solid hydrogen H2, nitrogen N2, carbon dioxide CO2, many organic compounds. Because the molecular bonds here are inherently weak the substances easily disintegrate with thermal motion