Crystallography & Diffraction

Catalog description

Fundamentals of bonding in solids; basic crystallography of materials; point groups and space groups; tensor properties of crystals; symmetry and physical properties; atomic packing and structures; glassy state; polycrystalline aggregates; grain boundaries and interfaces; textures; multiphase materials; reciprocal space and its application to structure analysis; basic diffraction theory and diffraction methods; crystal structure determination by powder and single crystal techniques. Prerequisites: undergraduate course in introductory materials science or consent of instructor. Offered in the Fall Semester.