Text:
Basic Solid State Chemistry
by Anthony R. West, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1999).

Course Outline

Week-by-week breakdown of the course material

Week 1.  Introduction: basic definitions

Week 2.  Crystal Structure: unit cell, bonding, perfect
crystals, polycrystalline material, Lattice planes, Miller
indices, d-spacing, Bragg's Law.

Week 3.  Bonding in Solids: general principles, bonding types,
ionic structures, ionic radii, lanthanide contraction, radius
ratio rule.
Quiz-1

Week 4.  Lattice energy, Born-Haber cycle, Ionicity, bond
valence, bond strength, non-bonding electron effect, metallic
bonding and band theory, conductors, semi-conductors, insulators.

Week 5.  Synthetic methods to prepare solids: shake ‘n bake, sol-
gel, CVD and other methods.

Week 6.  Techniques to characterize solids: X-ray diffraction
(XRD), and experimental procedures.

Week 7.  Intensities, electron density maps, electron
diffraction, neutron diffraction.
Midterm

Week 8:  Spectroscopic techniques: Optical and Electron.  IR and
Raman.

Week 9.  Spectroscopic Techniques contd.: NMR, UV-VIS, NMR, X-
ray spectroscopies, Mössbauer.  Thermal analysis: TG, DTA, DSC.

Week 10.  Perfect and imperfect crystals, crystal defects:
Schottky and Frankel.  Interstitial vacancies, solid solutions,
dislocation in solids.
Quiz-2

Week 11.  Phase rule, phases in materials, single and multi-
component systems, phase diagram.

Week 12.  Electric properties: metallic conductivity,
superconductivity, semi conductivity and ionic conductivity.
Ferroelectric, piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials.

Week 13.  Magnetic properties: Curie-Weiss laws, structure-
property relationship.  Optical properties: Luminescence,
phosphor, and lasers.

Week 14.  Overview

Week 15.  Final exam.





Note: Detailed notes will be regularly posted on the Blackboard
during the semester.




Fall 2003:

Prof. Mahajan
210 Old Engineering Building
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1:00-3:00 pm


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