Ram Seshadri Group at UC Santa Barbara: Teaching

Spring 2010: MATRL 286G: Special Topics in Inorganic Materials: Structural Families of Functional Inorganic Materials

EII 1335, M & W, 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm

The VESTA Crystal Structure drawing package (and more): Download and install from here. This program works on all platforms.

Database of some crystal structures to be found here. The cif files that can be downloaded are directly read by VESTA.

A demo version of the principal database of Inorganic Crystal Structure is available at FIZ Inorganic Crystal Structure Database

Bond Valence Calculator: BondVal

Structure prediction: SPuDS

Faulting:DIFFaX

The General Utility Lattice Program (GULP):GULP

Date	Description	Notes	Resources
M 3/29	Introduction to structures, bond valence ...	PDF	PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| PDF
W 3/31	More on structures, fcc, diamond, SiC, semiconductors ...	PDF	URL \| DOI \| DOI
M 4/5	Semiconductors, stuffed zinc blendes, half-Heuslers ...	PDF PDF	DOI \| DOI \| DOI
Assignment 1 (due Monday 12th)
W 4/7	Superconductivity	PDF
M 4/12	High Tc etc.	PDF\| PDF	URL \| DOI \| URL \| DOI \| DOI \| JSTOR \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
Zip of VESTA files for m = 1, 2, 3, & ∞ Ruddlesden-Popper phases: (SrTiO₃)_m(SrO)
W 4/14	Metal-insulator transitions (spinels, rutiles, perovskites...)	PDF	DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
M 4/19	No class
W 4/21	No class
M 4/26	Polar materials, ferroelectrics	PDF \| PDF \| PDF	DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
W 4/28	More polar materials: double perovskites, Aurivillius ...	PDF \| PDF	DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| Zipped CIFs
M 5/5	Thermoelectrics	PDF	DOI \| DOI
W 5/5	Colossal magnetoresistance	PDF + PDF	DOI \| DOI \| DOI
T 5/10	Thermal properties (thermal expansion, conductivity)		DOI \| DOI \| Nature \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \|
R 5/12	Batteries [from Professor C. P. Grey]	PDF	DOI \| DOI
R 5/17	Intermetallics, metallic glasses, quasicrystals	PDF + PDF + PDF