Syllabus

MODULE 1
Basic Crystallography:

Bonding and structure of materials, Crystal Structure and Crystal Geometry: Space lattice Unit Cells Crystal systems Bravis lattices Miller indices Volume, planar and linear density unit cell calculations Polymorphism Crystal structure analysis (8hrs)

MODULE 2
Crystal structure of oxide systems:

Some Real Structures: Rock Salt, Zinc Blende, Antifluorite, Rutile, Perovskite, Spinels, Wurtzite etc. (4 hrs)

MODULE 3
Crystal imperfections

Crystalline Imperfections, types and notations, Solid solutions, defects defect chemistry and dislocations. Vitreous state, glasses and structural models (8 hrs)

MODULE 4
Condensed phase rule and single component system:

Silica, Zirconia and Carbon etc. (4 hrs)

MODULE 5
Two component systems:

Lever rule. Free energy-composition diagrams, phase stability, solid solutions, Eutectic and Eutectoid, Peritectic reaction, congruently and incongruently melting compound. Some important binary ceramic systems SiO2-Al2O3, MgO-Al2O3, CaO-SiO2, CaO-ZrO2, MgO-SiO2, BaO-TiO2, CaO-Al2O3, CaO-MgO (8 hrs)

MODULE 6
Ternary System:

Representation of composition on triangle, proof of the basis, Temperature, Solid models, Iso-thermal Sections, Base projection method. Ternary systems with binary and ternary Eutectic, Peritectic, congruently and incongruently melting compounds. Some important ternary ceramic systems: CaO-SiO2-Al2O3, MgO-SiO2-Al2O3, CaO-MgO-SiO2. (8 hrs)

To under stand Basic crystallography

To understand the structure of ceramic material and calculate different crystallographic parameters.

To understand and calculate different defects and defect-related parameters

To impart fundamental knowledge on Phase diagrams in ceramics and their quantitative and qualitative analysis

CO1: Understand the crystal structure bond energy-related properties of ceramics
CO2: Understand crystal structure-related properties of materials
CO3: Understand writing Defects equation on substitution following defect chemistry and properties governed by defects
CO4: Draw and Interpret ceramic phase diagram. Understand qualitative and quantitative analysis of the phase diagram

W. D. Kingery, H. K. Bowen and D. R. Uhlmann, Introduction to Ceramics, John Wiley & Sons

F. A. Hummel, , Introduction to Phase Equilibrium in Ceramic Systems, CRC Press

L.V. Azaroff, Introduction to Solids, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd

C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, John Wiley & Sons Pvt. Ltd