Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00-3:30 pm

Location: 433 Latimer

Instructor:

Professor Peidong Yang,

239 Hild., Tel: 643-1545

Email: p_yang@berkeley.edu

Office Hours: Friday 10-12pm, 239 Hild.

Teaching Assistant

Nick Kornienko
nick.kornienko.berkeley@gmail.com

Description:

This course is intended primarily as an introduction course to materials and solid state chemistry for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. The objective is to understand solids from a chemical perspective and introduce general solid state synthesis methodologies and characterization techniques. Topics covered will include: structure and structure determination of crystalline solids; free electron model for metals; electronic band structure; chemical bonding in solids; structure-property relationships.

Grading:

Problem sets (2) 40%

Final 60%

Main Reference Books: (Reserved at Chem./Phys./Engineering Lib.)

West: Solid State Chemistry and its Applications (Wiley, 1988)

West: Basic solid state chemistry (Wiley, 1999).

Gersten and Smith: The Physics and Chemistry of Materials (Wiley, 2001)

Hoffmann: Solids and Surfaces (VCH, 1988)

Burdett: Chemical Bonding in Solids (Oxford 1995)

Ashcroft and Mermin: Solid State Physics (Saunders College, latest edition)

Kittel: Introduction to solid State Physics (Wiley, 1996)

William D. Callister Jr. Materials Science and Engineering, an Introduction (Wiley)

Cheetham and Day: Solid State Chemistry: Techniques (Oxford, 1987)

Cheetham and Day: Solid State Chemistry: Compounds (Oxford, 1992)

Cox: The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids (Oxford, 1987)

Wells: Structural Inorganic Chemistry (Clarendon Press, 1984)

Wold and Dwight: Solid State Chemistry (Chapman Hall, 1993)

Courtesy of Dr. S. Heyes, Univ. Oxford, for crystal structural models in the Lectures.

Course Schedule

Here is a tentative list of the lecture topics.

Date Topic Suggested Readings

Materials Chemistry I

1	Bravais Lattice
2	Reciprocal Lattice	Ashcroft: 4-7
3	XRD, Structural Factor	Ashcroft: 4-7
4	Diffraction Homework#01-Due March 10^th	West: 5
5	Descriptive crystal chemistry	West: 7,8
6	Descriptive crystal chemistry Homework#02 – Due March 17^th
7	Crystal Structure, Phase diagrams	West: 11, 12
8	Phase Diagram	Callister 9
9	Phase Diagram
10	Final

Materials Chemistry II

11	Free Electron Model	Ashcroft/Mermin: 1-3, 8-10 Kittel: 6-9
12	Nearly free electron model, Fermi surface, Effective mass, exciton
13	Fermi’s Golden Rule, Optical Transition HW#01
14	Quantum well/wire/dot	Gersten, 7,11
15	MO Theory, Tight Binding Model 1D	Hoffmann,Burdett 1-3
16	Tight Binding Model: 1D & 2D HW#02
17	Tight Binding Model, 2D &3D
18	Tight Binding Model

Materials Chemistry III