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For a detailed table of contents use
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The lecture course "Defects in
Crystals" attempts to teach all important structural aspects (as opposed
to electronic aspects) of defects in crystals. It covers all types of defects
(from simple vacancies to phase boundaries including more complicated point
defects, dislocations, stacking faults, grain boundaries), their role for
properties of materials, and the analytical tools of detecting defects and
measuring their properties |
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If you are not too sure about the role of defects
in materials scince, turn to the preface. |
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If you want to get an idea of what you should
know and what will be offered, turn to
chapter 2 |
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A few more general remarks |
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The course is far to short to really cover the
topic appropriately, but yet, it overlaps somewhat with other courses. The
reasons for this is that defects play a role almost everywhere in materials
science so many courses make references to defects |
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The course has a special format for the exercise
part similar to "Electronic
Materials", but a bit less formalized. Conventional exercises are
partially abandoned in favor of "professional" presentations
including a paper to topics that are within the scope of the course but will
not be covered in regular class. A list of topics is given in
chapter 1.2.1 |
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The intention with this particular format of
exercises is: |
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Learn how to research an unfamiliar subject by yourself |
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Learn how to work in a team |
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Learn how to make a scientific presentation in a limited time
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Learn how to write a coherent paper on a well defined subject.
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Learn about a new (and hopefully exciting) topics of
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Accordingly, the contents and the style of the
presentation will also be discussed to some extent. The emphasize, however,
somewhat deviating from "Electronic Materials" is on content. For
details use the link. |
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The graduate course "Defects in
Crystals" interacts with and draws on several other courses in the
materials science curriculum. A certain amount of overlap is unavoidable. Other
courses of interest are |
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Introduction to Materials Science
I + II ("MaWi I + II"; Prof. Föll) |
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Required for all "Dipl.-Ing." students; 3rd and 4th semester |
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Undergraduate course, where the essentials of crystals, defects in
crystals, band structures, semiconductors, and properties of semiconductors up
to semi-quantitave I-V-characteristics of p-n-junctions are tought. |
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For details of contents refer to the Hyperscripts (in german)
MaWi
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MaWi
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Physical Metallurgy I ("Metals
I", Prof. Faupel) |
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Includes properties of dislocations and hardening mechanisms
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Sensors I |
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Will, among other topics, treat point defects equilibria and
reactions in the context of sensor applications |
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Materials Analytics I + II ("Analytics
I + II", Prof. Jäger) |
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Covers in detail some (but not all) of the experimental
techniques, e.g. Electron Microscopy |
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Solid State Physics I + II ("Solid
State I + II" Prof. Faupel) |
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Covers the essentials of solid state physics, but does not
cover structural aspects of defects. |
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