MIME 262 Midterm Winter 2018 Version 1

                     

Professor Bevan
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•   There are 16 questions on this exam worth 100pts total.
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1. The compound CsCl is an ordered arrangement of Cs and Cl over the sites of a BCC lattice.
How many nearest neighbours does each Cs and Cl atom have, respectively? A nearest
neighbour is the atom closest to a given atom (in terms of distance). 6.25 pts

(a) 1 and 1
(b) 1 and 8
(c) 6 and 6
(d) 6 and 4
(e) 8 and 8

2. Why might ionic impurities be added to SiO2 ? 6.25 pts

(a) To increase the electrical relaxation transition temperature

(b) To promote the formation of an amorphous phase
(c) To induce rapid polymerization
(d) To create a meta-interstitial quasi-crystal state
(e) To inversely harden the material for use in aerospace applications

3. Which of the below statements is true concerning the electrical properties of metals? 6.25
pts

(a) The current density increases linearly with an applied magnetic field.
(b) The current density increases exponentially with the magnitude of the electric field.
(c) The resistivity of a metal increases if a small amount of solute is added to it, irrespective
of the solute.
(d) The conductivity of a metal decreases with decreasing temperature.
(e) The Fermi velocity of electrons increases under an applied electric field.

4. Copper crystallizes in the FCC crystal structure. The positions of all face atoms in the Cu
crystal unit cell are? 6.25 pts

(a) (1,0,1), (1,1,0), (0,1,1), (0.5,1,1), (1,1,0.5), (1,0.5,1)

(b) (0.5,0.5,0.5), (1,0,0), (1,0.5,0.5), (0,1,0.5), (0.5,1,0.5), (1,1,1)
(c) (0,0,0), (1,0,0), (0,1,0), (0,0,1), (1,1,0), (1,0,1), (0,1,1)
(d) (0.5,0.5,0), (0.5,0,0.5), (0,0.5,0.5), (0.5,0.5,1), (0.5,1,0.5), (1,0.5,0.5)
(e) (0,0,0), (1,1,1), (0,1,1), (1,1,0), (1,0,1), (1̄,1̄,1̄)

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5. Three types of edge dislocation motion are? 6.25 pts

(a) Climb up, climb down, and gliding.

(b) Pop-in, pop-out, and screw twisting.
(c) Vancancy hopping, atomic row attachement, and Burger’s shifting
(d) Burger’s rotation, screw halting, and splicing
(e) Butter cutting, dislocation looping, and sputter shifting

6. If atomic spheres are expanded on the site of each atom in a FCC unit cell so that they are
touching we denote their radius by R? The radius of the largest sphere that can be contained
inside an FCC octahedral void, while touching the atom centred spheres of radius R, is? 6.25
pts

(a) 2R/π
√
(b) 2R/ π
√
(c) (π + 2)R/ 2
√ √
(d) 3R/ 2
√
(e) ( 2 − 1)R

7. The diamond cubic structure is a natural forming structure for C, Si, and Ge because? 6.25
pts

(a) The ionic bonds in these materials have quadruple degeneracy and manifold occupancy.
(b) The 1s-shell in these materials prefers single covalent bonds.
(c) Triple colavent bonds are the most energetically stable configuration.
(d) To fill their p-shell these elements would like to find four bonding neighbours.
(e) High pressures within the Earth’s atmosphere drive their natural formation.

8. The hydrogen atom consists of one proton binding to one electron with an energy of E1 =
−13.6 eV in the ground state. There are higher lying bound states with energies En = E1 /n2
(n=2,3,4,5,6,...). The energy of a photon is given by: hc/λ, where λ is the wavelength of
light. Assume the hydrogen atom has been excited to the n=2 state. What is the minimum
wavelength of light needed to ionize the atom? 6.25 pts

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(a) 364.64 nm
(b) 58.03 nm
(c) 1145.57 nm
(d) 421.43 nm
(e) 155.04 nm

9. Consider the family of directions < 111 >. Which of these directions lie in the (101̄) plane?
6.25 pts

(a) [111], [11̄1], [1̄11̄], [1̄1̄1̄]

(b) [1̄1̄1], [11̄1̄], [1̄11̄], [111]
(c) [111], [1̄1̄1̄], [11̄0], [01̄1̄]
(d) [1̄11̄], [11̄1], [1̄1̄1], [11̄1̄]
(e) [111], [1̄11], [111̄], [11̄1]

10. The vacancy concentration in silicon rises exponentially with temperature

( )
−Evac
nvac = NSi exp (1)
kB T

where Evac is the formation energy cost of a vacancy, with NSi = 5×1022 cm−3 and Evac = 2 eV.
What percentage of vacanies remains when the crystal cools down from T = 1600 K to
T = 1000 K? 6.25 pts

(a) 0.163 %.
(b) 0.052 %.
(c) 0.017 %.
(d) 0.045 %.
(e) 0.0063 %.

11. Using an Ohm meter to measure the resistances of 150W and 40W rated light bulbs you
obtain 7 Ω and 30 Ω, respectively. However, based on their rated power output at 110 V, the
resistances should be 96 Ω and 360 Ω, respectively. This discrepancy can be explained by?
6.25 pts

(a) Electron delocalization.

(b) Joule heating.
(c) Fermi velocity renormalization.
(d) Impact ionization.
(e) Drift velocity relaxation.

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12. The electrical resistivity of lithium, at 300 K, is 9.28 × 10−6 Ω·cm. Lithium adopts the BCC
structure with a cubic lattice parameter, a0 , of 0.351 nm. The velocity of electrons at the
Fermi surface is 1.29 × 106 m/s. The electron relaxation time of the crystal is? 6.25 pts

(a) 9.5 × 10−1 ps

(b) 7.4 × 10−2 ps
(c) 3.1 × 10−2 ps
(d) 2.6 × 10−3 ps
(e) 8.3 × 10−3 ps

13. How many propene monomers are needed to produce a 2 kg polypropylene chair? Hint:
propene has 3 carbon atoms, and only one double covalent bond (all other bonds are single
covalent bonds), and all the remaining atoms are hydrogen. 6.25 pts

(a) 3.31 × 1025

(b) 6.46 × 1024
(c) 7.24 × 1024
(d) 2.86 × 1025
(e) 1.26 × 1026

14. Two hydrocarbon molecules bond through a Lennard-Jones bonding potential of the form:
A B
E= 12
− 6 (2)
r r
where A = 20 eV·nm12 and B = 1 eV·nm6 . What type of bonding is this most likely to be?
6.25 pts

(a) Ionic
(b) Metallic
(c) Van der Waals
(d) Covalent
(e) Hydrogen bonding

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15. Anti-phase boundaries are most technologically useful in? 6.25 pts

(a) Transistor engineering

(b) Aircraft engine alloys
(c) Bullet proof vest strengthening
(d) Lightweight fibre composites
(e) None of the above.

16. Which of the below statements is true concerning Si wafers? 6.25 pts

(a) They are produced through a latent glassy transition cooling process
(b) They are typically doped with copper and phosphorus to produce computer chips
(c) They were a key manufacturing product during the industrial revolution
(d) They are primarily cut along the (100) plane for chip fabrication
(e) They contain discrete point vacancies where transistor growth is nucleated

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Useful constants: 1  𝑒𝑉 = 1.6022  ×  10+,-  𝐽