26 hod., optionally

Types of defects, surface and structural defects, methods of localisation, destructive and non-destructive defects and their identification
Identification of defects from transport characteristics, V-A characteristics v in forward and reverse direction, excess current, generation-recombination process, degradation
Fluctuation processes, noise spectral power density and its correlation with the type of defect, low-frequency noise as reliability and quality indicator, lambda parameter - mean time to failure and its quantification
Noise density in semiconductor devices, noise in homogenous structures and in thin-layer and thick-layer resistors
Partial discharges and noise in insulators and dielectrics, noise in capacitors
Noise in semiconductor lasers, alloy and FET transistors
RTS noise of semiconductor diodes with quantum holes and dots
Theory for the design of a concept of a non-destructive diagnostic test
Phenomenological description of the polarisation
Types of relaxation mechanisms in polymers, glasses and ceramic systems
Mathematical methods for the evaluation of dielectric data
Degradation processes and their observation and monitoring by dielectric methods
Major types of dielectric materials
Main fields of application of dielectric materials and criteria for the selection of dielectrics for individual applications

13 hod., optionally

Basic mathematical tools for the description of fluctuation and transport phenomena, stationarity and ergodicity, momentuses at the time and probability level, correlation function, noise spectral density
Calculation of noise magnitude in individual circuit components, transformation of noise during the transmission of a signal through an electronic system
Elements of diagnostics - size of ensembles and credibility of results, determination of the noise type, calculation of the excess current and of the reliability parameters
Dipol moments of elementary structural units (chemical bonds, molecules) and their calculation, polarisability alfa for atomic and dipole polarisation
Calculation of the local field and trabsition to the ferroelectric state, calculation of the permittivity of dielectric materials from their structure
Transformation from the time domain to the frequency domain and vice versa, Debye model, calculation of the distribution of relaxation times, both analytically and numerically, Hamon approximation, fitting
Ionic polarizations and the calculation of ionic polarizability