3.071 | Fall 2015 | Undergraduate

Amorphous Materials

Readings

[AV] = Varshneya, Arun K. Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses. Academic Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780127149707.

[JS] = Shelby, James E. Introduction to Glass Science and Technology. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005. ISBN: 9780854046393. [Preview with Google Books]

Doremus, Robert H. Glass Science. 2nd ed. Wiley-Interscience, 1994. ISBN: 9780471891741.

Musgraves, J. D., L. Calvez J. Hu, eds. The Springer Handbook of Glass. Springer, 2016. (forthcoming)

SES # READINGS
1

[AV] Chapters 1 and 2.

[JS] Chapter 1.

2

[AV] Chapters 1 and 5.

[JS] Chapter 5.

3

[AV] Chapter 3.

[JS] Chapter 2.

3.022 “Nucleation, Precipitation Growth and Interface Kinetics.”

Topological Constraint Theory

Thorpe, M. “Continuous Deformations in Random Networks.Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 57, no. 3 (1983): 355–70.

Mauro, J. “Topological Constraint Theory of Glass.” (PDF - 2.7MB) American Ceramic Society Bulletin 90, no. 4.

4

Raoux, Simone, and Matthias Wuttig, eds. Phase Change Materials: Science and Application. Springer, 2009. ISBN: 9780387848730. [Preview with Google Books]

Hong, Seungbum, Orlando Auciello, and Dirk Wouters, eds. Emerging Non-Volatile Memories. Springer, 2014. ISBN: 9781489975362. [Preview with Google Books]

Wuttig, Matthias. “Phase Change Materials and Phase Change Memory?MRS Bulletin 39, no. 8 (2014): 703–10.

5

[AV] Chapter 9.

[JS] Chapter 6.

6 No readings.
7

[AV] Chapters 8 and 13, Appendix A

[JS] Chapter 9. (does not cover relaxation)

8

[AV] Chapter 18.

[JS] Chapter 9.

9

[AV] Chapters 13.8 and 18.12.

[JS] Chapter 9, Section 4.4.

10

[AV] Chapters 14 and 16.

[JS] Chapter 8.

3.024 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials: “Band Gap” Lecture 12 (PDF)“Band Diagram” Lecture 13 (PDF), and “Engineering Conductivity” Lecture 17 (PDF).

11

Kasap, Safa, and Peter Capper. “Amorphous Semiconductors: Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties.” and “Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon.” Chapters 25, and 26 in Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials. Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9780387260594.

Street, R. A. Technology and Applications of Amorphous Silicon. Springer, 1999. ISBN: 9783540657149.

12

[AV] Chapter 19.

[JS] Chapter 10.

3.024 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials: “Wave Optics” Lecture 21 (PDF).

13 No readings.
14

3.012 Fundamentals of Materials Science: “X-ray Diffraction.

3.014 Materials Laboratory: “X-ray Diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, and Calorimetry.

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