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MAT SCI 223 · MSE 223Materials Science of Thin Films

Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Fabrication, structure, and property correlations of thin films used in microelectronics for data and information processing. Topics include film deposition, interfacial properties, stress and strain, electromigration, phase changes and kinetics, reliability.

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Requisites: courses 120, 131.

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  • MAT SCI 120
  • MAT SCI 131

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MAT SCI 223

  • MAT SCI 120Physics of Materials
    • MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materials
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics2 more beneath
      • CHEM 20AChemical Structure1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields1 more beneath
      • CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Changeanother path to it
      • CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory
    • MAT SCI 110Introduction to Materials Characterization A (Crystal Structure, Nanostructures, and X-Ray Scattering)
      • MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materialsanother path to it
    • CHEM 113APhysical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics5 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
      • CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change3 more beneath
      • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)another path to it
      • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications2 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1BHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Honors)1 more beneath
  • MAT SCI 131Diffusion and Diffusion-Controlled Reactions
    • MAT SCI 130Phase Relations in Solids
      • MAT SCI 104Science of Engineering Materialsanother path to it
    • CHEM 110APhysical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics8 more beneath
      • MATH 3COrdinary Differential Equations with Linear Algebra for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanicsanother path to it
      • CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I3 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
      • PHYSICS 1AHPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Honors)2 more beneath
      • CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced3 more beneath
      • PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fieldsanother path to it
      • CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II4 more beneath

2 direct requisites. Showing 30 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Spring 2027

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