Ram Seshadri Group at UC Santa Barbara: 2017 Materials 218

Winter 2017: Materials 218. An introduction to Inorganic Materials

Resources:

Place and time: Engr. 1335, M & W, 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm.

Office hours: After class or by appointment.

Resources:

Suggested reference for the earlier parts of the class: Basics of Crystallography and Diffraction (4th Edn.), C. Hammond, Oxford IUCr (any edition).

International Tables for Crystallography Volume A: Space-group symmetry

Printable (PDF) periodic table from NIST with electronic configurations. Please keep a printout with you.

Plane group sketcher (requires Java): "escher"

Gorgeous wikipedia page on Wallpaper (2D) groups.

Interactive periodic table with effective ionic radii (Shannon-Prewitt).

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

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

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

Oxide Crystal Structures

Class schedule:

Date	Subject, files etc
M 1/9	Helen Megaw and structure-property relationships: PDF
W 1/11	Classification, glasses, quasicrystals, etc. \| Handout \| Colloids: Lekkerkerker \| CRN: Zachariasen \| RCP: Duwez \| Quasicrystals: Mackay + Schecthman + Jannsen + Tsai
W 1/18	Symmetry and crystallography \| Handout 2 \| Handout 3 \| Faujasite: faujasite.vesta + faujasite.png \| IUCr-Symmetry \| 2D Plane Groups \|
Please print and bring to class: Space Groups 1 + Space Groups 2
Assignment 1 (Due: Wednesday 01/25/2017)
More resources on 2D plane groups: 2D-Plane Groups
M 1/23	More crystallography \| Structures 1 \| Stackings: PDF
The paper by Bijvoet et al. on anomalous scattering for the absolute configuration of sodium rubidium tartarate.
W 1/25	Structures 1 (contd.) and Structures 2 + Handout 4
Assignment 2 (Due: Wednesday 02/01/2017)
M 1/30	Structures 2 (contd.). Please bring Space Groups, the notes for the class, and Handout 4
W 2/1	Bond Valence Sums and Structures 2 (contd.)
Assignment 3 (Due: Wednesday 02/08/2017) The assignment needs NbO.cif and CuO.cif
M 2/7	Structures 3
W 2/9	Cohesion 1 + Handout 5 \| Assignment 4 (due Wed 15th)
M 2/13	Cohesion 1 + Cohesion 2
W 2/15	Cohesion 2 (continued) + Elements of free electron theory + Cohesion 3 + Cohesion 3 + Assignment 5 (due Monday 27th)
Leo Lamontagne's guide to band structures and k-space.
W 2/22	In-class midterm
M 2/27	Cohesion 3 (continued) + Magnetism
W 3/1	Electronic structures of TiO and MoS₂ \| Crystal Fields \| Magnetism \| Assignment 6 (due March 8th)
M 3/6	Magnetism (finally !)
W 3/8	Magnetism and Polar Materials
M 3/13	Superconductivity
T 3/14	Take-Home Final
W 3/15	Superconductivity and CMR

For material from previous quarters, please look at: