- Docente: Aldo Brillante
- Credits: 3
- SSD: CHIM/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Products, Materials and Processes for Industrial Chemistry (cod. 0216)
Learning outcomes
The course provides an introductory overview to the physical chemistry of the solid state, with particular emphasis to the structural and dynamical properties of the crystal lattice. Some methods for materials characterization will be illustrated.
Course contents
Synthesis and preparation of materials.
Reciprocal lattice. Diffraction of waves in crystals.
Waves in periodic structures: Bloch theorem.
Crystal binding.
Optical properties. Absorption, reflection, dispersion.
Collective excitations in solids. Excitons: electronic spectra of molecular crystals. Phonons: ir and Raman spectra of crystals.
Optical spectroscopy techniques in Materials Science.
Readings/Bibliography
C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
G. Turell, Infrared and Raman Spectra of Crystals, Academic Press
Lecture Notes
Teaching methods
Lectures in classroom and experiments in spectroscopy laboratory
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Digital projector, pc, spectroscopy lab
Office hours
See the website of Aldo Brillante