MAT E 661 - Structure and Characterization of Materials

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Engineering
Department Chemical&Materials Engineering
Typically Offered either term or Spring/Summer

Description
Basic symmetry elements and operations, crystallographic point groups and space groups, application of symmetry in materials analysis. Fundamentals of crystal chemistry, transformations, defects in metals and ionic crystals, interactions between point defects and interfaces. Reciprocal lattice, Brillouin zones, construction of Fermi surfaces, theory of diffraction. Fundamental principles of electron scattering, production and detection of x-rays, diffraction methods, application to crystal structure determination, chemical analysis x-ray spectrometry.