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Properties of Advanced Materials

(Dielectric Properties-Part I)
CHEM3115
Dr. Farhat Nosheen Lecture Inorganic Material
Chemistry

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 Key Concepts
Dielectric Properties of advanced materials

• Introduction
• Dielectrics
• Polarization
• Capacitance
• Capacitance and permittivity
• Polarizability and polarization

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 Introduction
• A dielectric (or dielectric material) is an electrical insulator that can
be polarized by an applied electric field.
• When a dielectric material is placed in an electric field, electric
charges do not flow through the material as they do in an electrical
conductor but only slightly shift from their average equilibrium
positions causing dielectric polarization.

Examples of dielctric materials:

• porcelain (ceramic),
• glass,
• plastics,
• oxides of various metals.
• Some liquids and gases can serve as good dielectric materials.

• Capacitor, device for storing electrical energy, consisting of two

conductors in close proximity and insulated from each other.

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Dielectrics

properties

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Polarization

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Capacitance

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Capacitance and permittivity

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 Polarizability and Polarization

The electric susceptibility χe of a dielectric materials is a measure of how

easily it polarizes in response to an electric field. This, in turn, determines the
electric permittivity of the material and thus influences many other phenomena
in that medium, from the capacitance of capacitors to the speed of light.
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 Reference
• An introduction to nanoparticles and
nanotechnology, Maria Benelmekki
2015.

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 Assignment
• Find the examples of dielectric nanomaterials

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Thanks

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