- Docente: Aldo Brillante
- Credits: 4
- SSD: CHIM/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Industrial Chemistry (cod. 0884)
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.
Crystal structure. Periodic arrays of atoms. Fundamental types of lattices. Order, periodicity, dimensionality.
Reciprocal lattice. Diffraction of waves in crystals.
Waves in periodic structures: Bloch theorem.
Crystal binding. Crystals of inert gases, ionic crystals, covalent crystals, metals, hydrogen bonds.
Optical properties. Collective excitations in solids.
Excitons: electronic spectra of molecular crystals.
Phonons: ir and Raman spectra of crystals.
Optical spectroscopy techniques in Materials Science.
Reflection Spectroscopy.
Experiments on the application of Raman spectroscopy: Raman piezospectroscopy, Polymorphism, Polarized Raman spectra and Raman mapping of organic semiconductors.
Readings/Bibliography
C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid StatePhysics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
G. Turell, Infrared and Raman Spectra of Crystals, Academic Press
Lecture notes
Teaching methods
Lectures in classroom and experiments in the spectroscopy laboratory
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Digital projector, pc, spectroscopy lab
Office hours
See the website of Aldo Brillante