ram seshadri: Spring 2020, Materials 286G

Time and Place: T R 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm, Remote, via Zoom (link sent by email before class)

Office hours: After class (T R 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm) or by appointment.

Resources:

Class schedule:

Date Subject, files etc
T 3/31 Reviewing crystal structural principles: compact PDF + pptx
R 4/2 Reviewing crystal structural principles (contd.)
Resources: SOJT + SOJT + Pauling's Rules
T 4/7 Insulator-to-metal transitions: PDF + pptx
R 4/9 Insulator-to-metal transition (contd.)
Resources: Fujimori review + Edwards and Sienko + Hiroi review on VO2
T 4/14 Insulator-to-metal transitions (percolation and correlation): PDF + pptx
Resources: Another Edwards-Sienko (Universality) + Zaanen-Sawatzky-Allen
R 4/16 Finish insulator-to-metal transitions (percolation and correlation)
T 4/21 Superconductivity and superconductors: PDF + pptx
R 4/23 Superconductivity and superconductors (contd): PDF of slides from Prof. Zenji Hiroi (password protected)
T 4/28 Battery materials: Some slides about the Li+–ion battery Nobel in 2019 + Slides from Professor Clare Grey, FRS
Resources: Voltage trends + Manthiram review + Ceder, O vs. S + LixCoO2 M–I Transitions (Delmas) + LixCoO2 M–I Transitions (Yamauchi) + Storage on carbon + VS4 + FeS2 + Li—S + Oxygen redox? + No it's not! + Candidate O-redox material
Further resources: All solid-state + Solid-electrolyte stability
R 4/28 Battery materials (continued).
T 5/5 Preparation (Synthesis) Science: PDF + pptx
Resources: Corr & Seshadri Review + Assisted Microwave + Schmehr & Wilson, Crystal Growth +
PGM Oxides 1 + PGM Oxides 2 + Complex Au3+ Oxide + SPS Cr2WO6 + CrTa2O6
R 5/5 Preparation Science (completed) and polar materials: PDF + pptx
T 5/12 Complete polar materials, and Lone Pairs: PDF + pptx
R 5/14 Complete lone pairs
T 5/19 Semiconductors, Heuslers, Topology: PDF + More extended slides from Claudia Felser on Topology: PDF

For material from previous quarters (Ram's cummulative teaching at UCSB) please look at:

Schedule for final presentations:

  1. Tuesday May 26th: Elio Gonzalez-Correa, Paramagnetic NMR studies of NASICON Na-ion cathodes
  2. Tuesday May 26th: Emily Foley, Fluoride materials for Na-ion cathodes
  3. Tuesday May 26th: Nelson Moreno, Antiferromagnetic topological semimetals
  4. May 28th: Emily Morgan, DFT prediction of solid-state NMR parameters
  5. May 28th: Howie Nguyen, Charge compensation in Li-excess transition metal oxide cathodes
  6. May 28th: Yuzki Oey, Magnetostructural coupling
  7. Tuesday June 2nd: Tyler Pardue, Electron diffraction studies of the topological semimetal Cd3As2
  8. Tuesday June 2nd: Noah Ratcliff, Topological superconductivity in doped Bi2Se3
  9. Tuesday June 2nd: Ryan Russel, Ferroelectric enhancement of superconductivity in strained SrTiO3 films
  10. Thursday June 4th: Rebecca Vincent, Transition metal oxyfluorides Li-ion cathodes
  11. Thursday June 4th: Vincent Wu, Polyanion alluaudite materials for Na-ion batteries