Getting started with Solid State and how it affects our day to day life
Understanding Amorphous & crystalline solids and their characteristics.
Crystalline solids as ionic, molecular, covalent network, or metallic.
Features of a crystal, Centre of symmetry, plane of symmetry, Axis of Symmetry and Miller indices
Crystal Lattice, Lattice Points and Unit cell, 2D Unit cells
Primitive and non-primitive unit cells. Body centre, face centre and end centre unit cells. Seven crystal systems - Cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, Rhombohedral, Hexagonal, Monoclinic,Triclinic. 14 Bravais Lattices
Calculations involving Unit Cell Dimensions, coordination number, packing efficiency for simple cubic unit cell
Calculations involving Unit Cell Dimensions, coordination number, packing efficiency for Body centered cubic unit cell
Calculations involving Unit Cell Dimensions, coordination number, packing efficiency for Face centered cubic unit cell
Determining the coordination number and effective atoms for different unit cells of metals and other crytalline compounds. Deriving formulas for crystals and their stoichiometry after making changes in the lattice sites
Allotropy and Polymorphism, Polymorphs of ZnS, Enantiotropy, Monotropy
Understanding packing in solids, Close packing of solids in 1D and 2D, Square close packing (AA Type), Hexagonal close packing (ABAB Type), Packing efficiency.
Types of voids, Understanding tetrahedral and octahedral voids with 3D animation,
Close Packing in 3D - HCP (ABAB type), Calculation of height of HCP Unit Cell, 3D animation for HCP unit cell, Packing efficiency of HCP unit cell
Close Packing in 3D - CP (ABCABC type), Packing efficiency of CCP Unit Cell
What is Planar density
Solving subjective and objective questions on solid state
How is Formula of a Compound related to the Number of Voids Filled, IONIC SIZES AND CRYSTAL ENVIRONMENTS, Limiting Radius ratio LRR for triangular, trtrahedral, octahedral and cubic void.
Simple ionic compounds, Understanding crystal structures of NaCl (Rock Salt) and CsCl in detail.
Crystal Structures of ZnS & Diamond in detail
Crystal structures of Fluorite, Anti-Fluorite, Rutile, Perovskite & Spinel
Defects in Crystal - Point defects and line defects. Vacancy defects and interstitial defects, Frenkel defect, Schottky defect, Metal excess and metal deficiency defects.