27-201 Perfect Crystals

Units: 9.0 Department: Materials Science and Eng. Prerequisites: 21-122 Co-requisites: 27-100 Related URLs: http://neon.mems.cmu.edu/Home_Page.html This course covers the fundamentals of crystallography and diffraction. Topics covered include: the periodic table of the elements, bonding in different classes of materials, Bravais lattices, unit cells, directions and planes, crystal geometry computations, direct and reciprocal space, symmetry operations, point and space groups, nature of x-rays, scattering in periodic solids, Bragg?s law, the structure factor, and the interpretation of experimental diffraction patterns. 24 crystal structure types of importance to various branches of materials science and engineering will be introduced. Co-requisites: Corequisite: 27-100, Pre-requisite: 21-122

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