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Recent Materials: From the Recent Materials folder (
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Material Library. An optional add-on database, the Material Library, contains data for over 2500 materials and 20,000 property functions.
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Built-In. Included with COMSOL Multiphysics, the Built-In database contains common materials with primarily electrical, structural, and thermal properties. The materials in this database can be considered as examples of common materials with typical values for their material properties. The Air and Water, liquid materials use the same temperature- and pressure-dependent property values as the corresponding values in the Liquids and Gases Materials Database.
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AC/DC. Included in the AC/DC Module, the AC/DC database has electric properties for some magnetic and conductive materials.
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Batteries and Fuel Cells. Included in the Batteries & Fuel Cells Module, the Batteries and Fuel Cells database includes properties for electrolytes and electrode reactions for certain battery chemistries.
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Bioheat: Included in the Heat Transfer Module, the Bioheat database includes properties for several biological tissues such as bone, fat, human and porcine liver, lung, muscle, myocardium, prostate, and skin.
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Building: Included in the Heat Transfer Module, the Building database includes hygroscopic and thermal properties for several materials used for structure, sheathing, thermal isolation, and vapor barrier in buildings.
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Equilibrium Discharge: Included in the Plasma Module.
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Liquids and Gases: Included in the Acoustics Module, CFD Module, Batteries & Fuel Cells Module, Chemical Reaction Engineering Module, Heat Transfer Module, MEMS Module, Microfluidics Module, Pipe Flow Module, and Subsurface Flow Module, the Liquids and Gases database includes transport properties and surface tension data for liquid/gas and liquid/liquid interfaces.
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MEMS: Included in the MEMS Module and Structural Mechanics Module, the MEMS database has properties for MEMS materials: metals, semiconductors, insulators, and polymers.
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Nonlinear Magnetic: Included in the AC/DC Module, the Nonlinear Magnetic database has properties, such as nonlinear magnetization curves, for a large set of ferromagnetic alloys like various types of steel.
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Optical: Included with the Ray Optics Module and Wave Optics Module, the Optical database contains frequency-dependent refractive index properties for organic and inorganic materials, glasses, and other materials such as semiconductors.
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Piezoelectric: Included in the Acoustics Module, MEMS Module, and Structural Mechanics Module, the Piezoelectric database has properties for piezoelectric materials.
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Piezoresistivity: Included in the MEMS Module, the Piezoresistivity database has properties for piezoresistive materials, including p-type and n-type silicon materials.
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RF: Included in the RF Module, the RF database includes a number of substrate materials that assist in modeling RF components.
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Semiconductors: Included in the Semiconductor Module, the Semiconductors database contains silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, AlxGa1-xAs, gallium nitride (wurtzite and zincblende structures), gallium phosphide, gallium antimonide, indium arsenide, indium phosphide, and indium antimonide materials for use with this module.
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Thermoelectric: Included with the Heat Transfer Module and contains bismuth telluride and lead telluride materials for use with the Thermoelectric Effect interface.
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User-Defined Library: The User-Defined Library folder (
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