Materials Science and Engineering is an interdisciplinary program. Students from engineering and science disciplines receive a solid foundation in the physics and chemistry of materials, thermodynamics and structure of materials, as well as the latest technological aspects of materials in today’s manufacturing environment. Faculty research areas are mainly concentrated in the development of novel materials for today’s electronics, energy, biomedical and high tech industries. These materials may be bulk or thin film format and range from ceramics, semiconductors, metals, polymer and biomaterials. Departmental faculty members are major participants in the University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center , the Maryland NanoCenter and the University of Maryland Energy Research Center . For an overview of the Materials Science and Engineering Department, please visit Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland .
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Special equipment includes scanning and transmission electron microscopes; X-ray diffraction devices; image analysis and mechanical testing facilities; crystal growing, thin film deposition and analysis equipment; HPLC, GC, IR and other sample preparation and analytical apparatus.
The Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing (LAMP) in JM Patterson 2225 includes a class 1000 clean room for various kinds of thin film processing, particularly things difficult to acccomplish in the NanoCenter’s new FabLab clean room in the Kim Building. LAMP also features custom-designed ultraclean chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment as the basis for research in nano applications and manufacturing process prototyping, particularly with real-time chemical sensing for metrology and process control. A custom wafer-scanning electrical characterization facility enables resistance and capacitance mapping.
The Nano-Bio Systems Laboratory (NBSL) in JM Patterson 2229 adjoins LAMP and provides capability for biotech research, specifically in biomaterials processing and biomicrosystems development. It includes a Zeiss 310 laser confocal/fluorescence microscope, microfluidic chip testing for biomolecular reaction and cellular response experiments, biomaterials deposition, a Zyvex L200 nanomanipulator system for life science studies, and mass spectrometry and ICP optical emission equipment.
The W. M. Keck Laboratory for Combinatorial Nanosynthesis and Multiscale Characterization in 1141 Kim Building houses several thin film deposition chambers for rapid exploration of novel functional materials. The combinatorial approach allows simultaneous investigation of large numbers of different samples. The combinatorial laser molecular beam epitaxy is used to perform atomic layer controlled combinatorial synthesis of functional materials. Atomically controlled growth of unitcells are monitored in-situ using electron diffraction.
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第 1 位 | 麻省理工学院Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1年 | 55510美元/年 |
| 第 2 位 | 斯坦福大学Stanford University | 45学分 | 39120美元/3 quarters(8-10学分) |
| 第 10 位 | 新加坡国立大学National University of Singapore | 1年 | 52100新币/年 |
| 第 12 位 | 南洋理工大学Nanyang Technological University | 1年 | 57240新币/年 |
| 第 16 位 | 康奈尔大学Cornell University | 2年 | 29500美元/年 |
| 第 20 位 | 约翰霍普金斯大学Johns Hopkins University | 8-10门课 | 58720美元/年 |
| 第 43 位 | 哥伦比亚大学Columbia University | 30学分 | 2272美元/学分 |
| 第 45 位 | 西北大学Northwestern University | 12门课 | 5005美元/课 |