Ram Seshadri Group at UC Santa Barbara: 2012

Spring 2012: MATRL 286G: Structural families of functional inorganic materials

Phelps 1417, M & W, 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm: Office hours following class or by appointment

Date	Description	Resources
M 4/2	Introduction to structures, bond valence ...	PDF \| PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| PDF
W 4/6	No class (to be made up)
F 4/8, 9:30 am	Class 1 (contd.)
M 4/9	More on structure, semiconductors, ...	PDF \| close-packing PDF
M 4/11	Semiconductors, stuffed zinc blendes, half-Heuslers ...	PDF \| PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
M 4/16	Semiconductors (contd.) and superconductvity	PDF
W 4/18	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)
F 4/20 9:30 am	Metal-insulator transitions (spinels, rutiles, perovskites...)	PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
M 4/23	No class (to be made up)
W 4/25	No class (to be made up)
M 4/30	No class (to be made up)
W 5/2	No class (to be made up)
F 5/4 10:00 am	Polar materials, ferroelectrics	PDF \| PDF \| PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
M 5/7	More polar materials: double perovskites, Aurivillius ...	PDF \| PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| Zipped CIFs
W 5/9	Thermoelectrics	PDF \| DOI \| DOI
F 5/11	Thermoelectrics (contd.)
M 5/14	Thermoelectrics and thermal properties	DOI \| DOI \| Nature \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI \|
W 5/16	Thermoelectrics and thermal properties (contd.)
F 5/18	Talks
M 5/21	Colossal magnetoresistance	PDF + PDF \| DOI \| DOI \| DOI
W 5/23	Batteries [from Professor C. P. Grey]	PDF\| DOI \| DOI