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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Certificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    • Nature of solid state and the solid state materials
    • Thermodynamics of solids
    •  Crystallisation Kinetics
    • Synthetic Strategy
    • Review of week 1 and Practice problems

    • Unit Cells
    • Conventional Unit Cell & Primitive Unit Cell
    • Bravais Lattices
    • Bravais Lattices, Basis & crystal
    • Summery of week 2 and Practices Problems

    • Symmetry In Crystals, Point Symmetries
    • Reflections, Inversions and Rotoinversions
    • Schonflies and Hermann- Mauguin Conventions
    • Fractional Coordinates, Planer Visualization
    • Review of week 3 And Practice Problems

    • Combining symmetry operations, translational symmetries
    • Screw Axis
    • Glide Planes
    • Symmetry and Symmetry Notations
    • Summary of week 4 and Practice Problems

    • Crystal Systems
    •  Crystal Systems and Unit Cells
    • Point Groups
    • Space Groups
    • Week 5 Summary and Practice Problems

    • 32 Crystal Classes Based on Symmetry
    • Notation for 32 Crystal Classes
    • Short Form of Hermann- Mauguin Notations
    • Hermann - Mauguin notation for Space Groups
    • Summary and Practice Problems

    • Coordination number,Voids
    • Lattice Imperfections and Crystals
    • Line Planner and Bulk defects and crystals
    • Thermodynamics of defects in crystals
    • Review of Week 7,Practice Problems

    • Miller Planes, Miller Indices
    • Miller Indices for Hexagonal Systems, Distance between Planes
    • X-ray diffraction, Bragg's Law, Reciprocal Lattice
    • Reciprocal Lattice, XRD instrumentation
    • Review of week 8, Practice Problems

    • XRD - Analysis of Pattern
    • Geometric Structure Factor - Missing Peaks
    • X - Ray Crystallography
    • Electron Microscopy
    • Review of Week 9. Practice Problems

    • Closed - Packed Structures and Voids
    • Crystal Structures of Binary Compounds
    • Perovskites and Spinals
    • Space filling Polyhedra, Alloys
    • Summary of Week 10 and Practice Problems

    • Free electron Models
    • Bloch Theorem
    • Band Theory of Solids
    • Bands in Higher Dimensions
    • Summary of Week 11 and Practice Problems

    • More about Band Theory, Crystal Momentum
    • Density of States
    • Metals, Insulators and Semiconductors
    • Band Gap and Optical Properties
    • Summary of Week 12 and Practice Problems

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