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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

Teaching Schedule

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1. Introduction. Review of crystal structure, crystal planes, directions and Lecture notes, Reference texts
Miller indices. Review of atomic bonding. Voids in crystals.
2. Lattice, motif and crystal structure. Symmetry elements in 2D, plane Lecture notes, Reference texts
groups

3. Symmetry in 2D continued. Stereographic projection Lecture notes, Reference texts

4. Crystal Symmetry in 3D, point groups, space groups, Bravais lattices Lecture notes, Reference texts

5. Crystal symmetry in 3D continued Lecture notes, Reference texts

6. Crystal structure determination by diffraction, X-ray diffraction, texture Lecture notes, Reference texts

7. Reciprocal lattice, and Ewald Sphere Lecture notes, Reference texts

8. Electron diffraction Lecture notes, Reference texts

9. Classification and definition of crystal defects. Point Defects: Vacan- Lecture notes, Reference texts
cies and interstitials.

10. Dislocations: Characteristics of dislocation in different crystals, stress, Lecture notes, Reference texts
force and energy associated with dislocations

11. Dislocations: Sources. Multiplication. Interactions between disloca- Lecture notes, Reference texts
tions. Influence of defects on properties

12. Crystal structure of metals and alloys Lecture notes, Reference texts

13. Inorganic compounds and ceramics Lecture notes, Reference texts

14. Crystal structure of polymers Lecture notes, Reference texts

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