Ram Seshadri Group at UC Santa Barbara: Winter 2012: Materials 218

Winter 2011: MATRL 218/CHEM 277: An introduction to inorganic materials

Phelps 1417, T & R, 12:30 pm to 1:45 pm: Office hours following class or by appointment

Printable (PDF) periodic table from NIST with electronic configurations. You so need this !

The VESTA Crystal Structure drawing package (and more): Download and install from here.

This program works on all platforms. It is required for assignments.

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

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

Plane group sketcher (requires Java): "escher"

CRC Handbook of Physics and Chemistry online (useful physical and chemical data including solid state properties). CCRC Online

PDF file of bond valence parameters including the exponential bond valence relationship, and the source cif file: CIF from CCP14

Date	Description	Resources	Assignment
T 1/10	No class (will be made up)
R 1/12	Select contributions of H. D. Megaw: Structure — property relations in thermal expansion of crystals, and ferroelectrics (PDF)	Bernal by Hodgkin \| Megaw, expansion \| Megaw, ferroelectrics
T 1/17	Classification, glasses, quasicrystals, etc. + handouts	Lekkerkerker \| Zachariasen \| Duwez \| Jannsen \| Tsai
R 1/19	Symmetry	PDF \| PDF \| faujasite.jpg \| faujasite.vesta \|	Assignment 1
T 1/24	Symmetry (contd.) + Structures 1	Krishna-Pandey \| SpaceGroups 1
R 1/26	Structures 1 + Structures 2	Bond Valence 1 + Bond Valence 2 + handouts	Assignment 2
T 1/31	Structures 2 (contd.)
R 2/2	In-class midterm
T 2/7	Structures 2 (contd.) and Structures 3		Assignment 3
R 2/9	Structures 3 (contd.)	SpaceGroups 2
CaTiO₃
T 2/14	Cohesion 1	Handout on Born-Haber etc.
R 2/16	Cohesion 1 (contd.) + Cohesion 2		Assignment 4
T 2/21	Cohesion 2 (contd.) + Cohesion 3	Handout on free electron Fermi gas
R 2/23	Cohesion 3 (contd.)
T 2/28	Cohesion 3 (contd.) and Magnetism	Handout on crystal fields \| Burdett1 \| Burdett2	Assignment 5
R 3/1	Magnetism (contd.)	Handout on Jahn-Teller
T 3/6	Magnetism (contd.)
R 3/8	Polar materials
T 3/13	Polar materials (contd.) and CMR and Supercond.	Handouts on hard magnets, the Stoner criterion, and Landau theory
R 3/15	CMR and Supercond. (contd.)
R 3/15	Final (take home)