Unit · year 3
CU-304 · Solid State & Materials Chemistry
Threads structure · bonding25 lectures5 results
The structure of crystalline solids and the origin of their properties.
Lectures
| L01 | Crystalline and Amorphous Solids — |
| L02 | Lattices, Motifs, and Unit Cells |
| L03 | The Seven Crystal Systems |
| L04 | Bravais Lattices |
| L05 | Counting Atoms in a Unit Cell |
| L06 | Miller Indices |
| L07 | Close Packing: HCP and CCP |
| L08 | Packing Efficiency |
| L09 | Tetrahedral and Octahedral Holes |
| L10 | Common Ionic Structure Types |
| L11 | Radius Ratio Rules |
| L12 | X-Ray Diffraction |
| L13 | Bragg's Law |
| L14 | Indexing a Powder Pattern |
| L15 | Structure Determination from Diffraction |
| L16 | Lattice Energy |
| L17 | The Born–Landé Equation |
| L18 | The Madelung Constant |
| L19 | Comparing Born–Landé with Born–Haber |
| L20 | Defects in Solids — |
| L21 | Metallic Bonding and the Free-Electron Model |
| L22 | Band Theory of Solids |
| L23 | Conductors, Semiconductors, and Insulators |
| L24 | Doping and Semiconductor Devices |
| L25 | Synthesis: Structure Determines Property |
Results in this unit
T-087
Crystal lattices and the unit cell
Describing periodic solids from a repeating motif.
T-088
Bragg's law
Diffraction reveals the spacing of crystal planes.
T-089
Close packing and packing efficiency
How hard spheres fill space.
T-090
Band theory of solids
Conductors, insulators and semiconductors from overlapping orbitals.
T-091
The Born-Lande equation
Lattice energy from electrostatics and repulsion.