Lecture Notes

 Lecture notes have been provided where available.

SES # TOPICS
I. Perfect Crystals
1 Structure: Miller Indices, BCC, FCC, HCP
2 Deformation: Slip Systems, Uniaxial Stress-strain, Yield Strength and Hardness (PDF)
3 Deformation: Slip Systems, Uniaxial Stress-Strain, Yield Strength and Hardness (cont.) (PDF)
II. Crystalline Defects
4 1D: Vacancies and Interstitials (PDF)
5 2D: Dislocations

Introduction to 2D Defects (PDF)
6 2D: Dislocations (cont.)

Edge: Structure, b and ζ, Self Energy Ψ (PDF)
7 2D: Dislocations (cont.)

Screw: Structure, b and ζ, Self Energy Ψ (PDF - 2.2 MB)
8 2D: Dislocations (cont.)

Dislocation Interactions: Kinks and Jogs (PDF)
9 2D: Dislocations (cont.)

Peach-Kohler Forces (PDF)
10 3D: Grain Boundaries (PDF)

Dipoles

Tilts

Large vs. Small Angle

Coincident Site Lattices
11 Physical/Chemical Effects (PDF)

Recovery, Recrystallization, Grain Growth

Corrosion

Solute Aggregation
12 Mechanical Effects (PDF)

Strengthening

Grain Size Effects

Amorphous Limit

Creep
13 Midterm
III. Kinetic Processes
14-15 Nucleation
16 Growth
17 Coarsening
18-21 Spinodal Decomposition: Metastable Phase
22-23 Recovery, Recrystallization and Grain Growth
IV. Case Studies
24-25 Interconnect Design
26 Drug Delivery Device Design
27 Magnetic Hard Drive Design
28 Final Exam