My Notes
Categories
These are a group of outstanding resources for materials science and solid state chemistry. They are all tutorials with Flash animation. I find these to be an excellent review for myself and an excellent primer for my students. Because there are so many useful tutorials on the site, I've highlighted the ones that I think are most appropriate for use in an undergraduate curriculum. These range from introductory to advanced material.
Crystallography & Diffraction
- Lattice Planes and Miller Indices
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/miller_indices/index.php - Reciprocal Space
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/reciprocal_lattice/index.php - Optical Diffraction and Imaging
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/diffraction/index.php - Indexing Electron Diffraction Patterns
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/diffraction-patterns/index.php - Crystallography
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/crystallography3/index.php - Brillouin Zones
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/brillouin_zones/index.php - Crystallographic Texture (aka preferred orientation)
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/crystallographic_texture/index.php
Analytical Techniques
- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/afm/index.php - Optical Microscopy and Specimen Preparation
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/optical-microscopy/index.php - Raman Spectroscopy
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/raman/index.php - Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/tem/index.php
Materials Properties
- Introduction to Semiconductors
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/semiconductors/index.php - Introduction to Thermal and Electrical Conductivity
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/thermal_electrical/index.php - Atomic Scale Structure of Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/afm/index.php - Batteries: basic principles, design, and applications
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/batteries/index.php - Dielectric Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/dielectrics/index.php - Ferroelectric Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/ferroelectrics/index.php - Ferromagnetic Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/ferromagnetic/index.php - Fuel Cells
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/fuel-cells/index.php - Piezoelectric Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/piezoelectrics/index.php - Pyroelectric Materials
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/pyroelectricity/index.php
Solid State Meets Physical Chemistry
- Diffusion
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/diffusion/index.php - Phase Diagrams and Solidification
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/phase-diagrams/index.php - Solid Solutions
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/solid-solutions/index.php
The individual resources are referenced that I think are useful are referenced above. There is a reference to the TLP (Teaching and Learning Program) website below. I've also included the link to teaching in Materials Science & Metallurgy at Cambridge. If you dig down to some of the web resources below, you can access some of their teaching resources.
The cc license was chosen in accord with what is on the Cambridge website.
At the moment, I mostly use these as a review for myself and my research students. I could see using these as supplementary materials in class in an effort to flip the classroom on some of these topics.