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ABOUT THE COURSE:
This course will introduce the student with the necessary tools for the synthesis various kinds of inorganic materials, primed towards electronic materials. Any kind of materials synthesis would involve phase-transitions, and reactions in various phases. We begin with thermodynamics and description of equilibrium states based on the second law (mostly) of infinite systems. We will understand how to phase diagrams are built, and we will get stuck at a point where we know what is possible to achieve, but don’t know how to achieve it.
To answer the “how” part, we move on to kinetics. We perturb systems away from equilibrium and understand their “drive” towards getting towards the equilibrium. We discuss how long-range diffusion is responsible for most of the phase transitions, and the time scales associated with them. We look at the effect of surfaces (finite systems) and stresses as the necessary ingredients to carry out a phase transition to a thermodynamically possible phase. We will discuss a bit on how new phases nucleate and grow from parent phases (in various dimensions). We will also discuss the possibilities of diffusionless transitions (and if time permits fluctuation-based second order transitions).
We continue then into understanding all this is relevant to everyday lab work with case studies of synthesis of some exciting materials systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Bachelors and masters level students in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Electrical engineering, interested in electronic material synthesis aspects.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: LAM research/Applied Materials
This course will introduce the student with the necessary tools for the synthesis various kinds of inorganic materials, primed towards electronic materials. Any kind of materials synthesis would involve phase-transitions, and reactions in various phases. We begin with thermodynamics and description of equilibrium states based on the second law (mostly) of infinite systems. We will understand how to phase diagrams are built, and we will get stuck at a point where we know what is possible to achieve, but don’t know how to achieve it.
To answer the “how” part, we move on to kinetics. We perturb systems away from equilibrium and understand their “drive” towards getting towards the equilibrium. We discuss how long-range diffusion is responsible for most of the phase transitions, and the time scales associated with them. We look at the effect of surfaces (finite systems) and stresses as the necessary ingredients to carry out a phase transition to a thermodynamically possible phase. We will discuss a bit on how new phases nucleate and grow from parent phases (in various dimensions). We will also discuss the possibilities of diffusionless transitions (and if time permits fluctuation-based second order transitions).
We continue then into understanding all this is relevant to everyday lab work with case studies of synthesis of some exciting materials systems
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Bachelors and masters level students in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Electrical engineering, interested in electronic material synthesis aspects.
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: LAM research/Applied Materials
