Solid State Materials

Catalog description

Covers the following topics for inorganic and organic solids. Bonding and structure of materials and their relationship to the mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of materials, within the context of structure-properties-processing-performance relationships. Crystal structures including units cells, crystal lattices, Miller indices, crystal systems, Bravais lattices, space groups, point groups. Defects. Diffraction from crystal structures. Special topics include dielectrics, superconductors, layered compounds. Characterization methods and device applications will also be discussed.