Year:11/12
Department:Physics
Level:Part II (yr 3)
Learning Hours:100
Credit Points:10
Weight:0.33
Course Convenor:Professor A Krier
Status:Live
Syllabus Rules
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Prior to PHYS351, the student must have successfully completed:
Assessment Rules
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Curriculum Design: Outline Syllabus
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Crystal binding and structural principles. Bravais lattice. Unit cell. Miller indices. Important structures, Sodium chloride, diamond, zinc blende, close packed elements.
Crystal symmetry. Translation, rotation, glide, reflection, inversion.
Properties of X-rays. Basic crystallographic techniques. Laue, rotation, powder, diffractometer.
X-ray diffraction. Reciprocal lattice. Ewald sphere. Analysis of data, positions and intensities of spots. Structure factor. Fourier transform.
Educational Aims: Subject Specific: Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
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This module aims
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To provide an experimental background to lecture courses in solid state physics
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To teach students the basic principles of crystal structure and symmetry
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To demonstrate the main techniques of X-ray crystallography
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To reinforce various mathematical concepts involved in the description of solid state behaviour
Learning Outcomes: Subject Specific: Knowledge, Understanding and Skills
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At the end of this laboratory module, the student should:
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have become acquainted with some of the most important types of crystal structure through working with crystal models
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have obtained hands-on experience of using X-rays to analyse crystal structures and symmetries
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have acquired basic photographic experience
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have applied the concepts of reciprocal lattice to analysing X-ray crystallographic photographs
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have developed experience of working in a team on a short open-ended project on some aspect of crystallography
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have developed report writing skills
Curriculum Design: Select Bibliography
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Kittel (Wiley) Introduction to Solid State Physics
Azaroff (Wiley) Crystallography
