Advanced Solid State Chemistry

The course is offered every alternate year, next time will be autumn 2027. The course covers solid state chemistry in a broad manner with emphasis on fundamental concepts and inorganic materials. Subjects covered are: Bounding and structure in solids, phase transitions, defects and nonstoichiometry, relationships between structure and electronic, magnetic and optical properties.

After completion of the course the student should be able to: - Give a qualitative description of bonding in solid materials, crystal classes and symmetries as a basis for space groups and the most important crystal structures for AB, AB2, AB3 and other more complex compounds - Give a qualitative description of old and new concepts to describe the structure of inorganic solids. - Define solid-solid phase transition based on thermodynamic, kinetic and structural characteristics of a phase transition and knowledge of some of the most important phase transition in inorganic functional materials - Give a qualitative and quantitative representation of 0, 1 and 2 dimensional defects in solids and knowledge of defects related to non-stoichiometry in some important classes of inorganic materials. - Give a qualitative representation of the relationship between structure/bonding and electronic, electrical, magnetic, ferroic and optical properties of solids with emphasis on some of the most important classes of inorganic materials. -Give a qualitative description of emerging directions in materials science.

The teaching is based on study groups and a project work. Expected time spent: Lectures: 80 hours, project: 20 hours, self study: 100 hours. If there are fewer than three candidates, the course will be taught through colloquium work.