Advanced Ceramics
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Advanced Ceramics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Ceramics (subject code 3173628) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 36 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3173628)Unit 1 Engineering Ceramics
- Carbides: Boron carbide
- Silicon carbide
- Titanium carbide
- Zirconium carbide
- Hafnium carbide & Uranium carbide
- Nitrides: Boron
- Silicon & Aluminum nitrides
- Silicides: Molybdenum disilicide
- Cermets & Composites
Unit 2 Ceramics used in advanced applications
- Nuclear energy
- Magneto- hydrodynamic generation
- Gas turbine blades
- Diesel engines
- Heat Exchangers
- Cutting Tools
- Wear Applications
Unit 3 Ceramics for Medical and Scientific products
- Tissue attachment mechanism
- Bio- active materials
- nearly inert crystalline ceramics
- porous ceramics
- bioactive glass and glass ceramics
- calcium phosphate ceramics
- carbon base implant materials
- ceramics for dental applications
Unit 4 Ceramics for optical applications
- CRT and TV picture tubes
- Telecommunication and related uses
- Information display
- Fiber optics
- Electromagnetic windows
Unit 5 Ceramics in Electrochemical cells
- Sodium sulphate cell (with β –alumina)
- Electrical ceramics for fuel cell and high energy batteries
Unit 6 Effect of temperature on intrinsic semiconductors, N type and P type semiconductors,
- Mass action law, Charge densities in intrinsic semiconductors
- Electronic & Ionic conduction
- Ceramic conductors like varistors
- resistors etc
- Ferroelectricity. 6 Subject Code: 3173628 w.e.f