Syllabus booklet 5-Years Integrated Dual Degree Programme

Students get idea about the advanced characterization methods involved in materials characterization. This course also serves as supporting course for the UG Project and M. Tech. Dissertation.

1. 
   Physical and Chemical Aspects of Organic Electronics, by Fabio Cicoira, Wiley-VCH Verlog GmbH & Co. KGaA
   
2. 
   Physics of Organic Semiconductors, edited by Wolfgang Brütting, Chihaya Adachi, John Wiley & Sons
   
3. 
   Organic Electronics Materials, Manufacturing and Applications, by Hagen Klauk , WILEY-VCH Verlog GmbH & Co. KGaA
   
4. 
   Conducting Polymers, Fundamentals and Applications: A Practical Approachby Prasanna Chandrasekhar; Kluwer Acad. Publ. Group, The Netherlands
   
5. 
   Conductive Polymers and Plastics in Industrial Applications by: Larry Rupprecht; William Andrew Inc. USA.
   

1. 
   Organic Electronics, By Meller, Gregor, Grasser, Tibor (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
   
2. 
   Handbook of Conducting Polymers, 2 Volume Set (Handbook of Conducting Polymers, Third Edition) 3rd Edition, by Terje A. Skotheim, John Reynolds; CRC Press, Fl, USA
   
3. 
   Conductive Polymers and Plastics in Industrial Applications by:Larry Rupprecht; William Andrew Inc. USA.
   

5. OTHER SESSIONS

5.1 *TUTORIALS: 0:
5.2 *LABORATORY: 0:

5.3 *PROJECT: None:

6. ASSESSMENT (indicative only)
6.1 HA:: [xx% GRADE]
6.2 QUIZZES-HA:10: [xx% GRADE]
6.3 PERIODICAL EXAMS:30: [xx% GRADE]
6.4 *PROJECT: None: [xx% GRADE]
6.5 FINAL EXAM:60: [xx% GRADE]

7. OUTCOME OF THE COURSE:

Concept of organic conductors and device applications.

To provide advance understanding of crystallographic principles for structural analysis of crystalline materials, basics of mathematical crystallography, space group symmetries as well as application of various diffraction methods for structure determination and analysis.

Interaction of x-rays with matter. Laue equations. Bragg’s law. Reciprocal lattice concept and its applications to rotation, Laue and Debye Scherrer techniques.

Atomic scattering factor and structure factor. Lorentz-Polarization factor, multiplicity factor, temperature factor.

Lattice and space group extinctions. Phase problem and determination of crystal structures.

Elementary ideas about electron and neutron diffraction.

UNIT II: (13 Lectures)

Debye Scherrer, Guinier and Bragg-Brentano geometries for powder diffractometers. General intensity expression for powder diffraction. Rietveld refinement technique. Quantitative phase analysis and microstructure determination. Limitations of powder method. Single crystal diffractometers.

General procedure for working out the details of space groups with illustrations. Wyckoff positions. Elementary ideas about magnetic groups.

Principles of crystal structure analysis. Structure factor calculations. Space group extinctions. Experimental determination of space group and inversion symmetry. Electron density functions. Phase problem. Patterson functions. Refinement procedures. Direct methods in crystallography.

1. 
   Elements of X-ray Crystallography, L.V. Azaroff.
   
2. 
   Crystallography Applied to Solid State Physics, A.R. Verma and O.N. Srivastava
   
3. 
   X-ray Diffraction, B.E. Warren.
   
4. 
   Elements of X-ray Diffraction, B.D. Culity.
   
5. 
   The Rietveld Method, R.A. Young.
   

1. International Table of Crystallography Vol.3

5. OTHER SESSIONS

5.1 *TUTORIALS: 0:

5.3 *PROJECT: None:

6. ASSESSMENT (indicative only)
6.1 HA:: [xx% GRADE]
6.2 QUIZZES-HA:10: [xx% GRADE]
6.3 PERIODICAL EXAMS:30: [xx% GRADE]
6.4 *PROJECT: None: [xx% GRADE]
6.5 FINAL EXAM:60: [xx% GRADE]

7. OUTCOME OF THE COURSE:

Students get an advance understanding of crystallographic principles for structural analysis of crystalline materials, basics of mathematical crystallography, space group symmetries as well as application of various diffraction methods for structure determination and analysis.

1. GENERAL

1.1 TITLE:: M.Tech. Project

1.2 *COURSE NUMBER (if known):: DP.MS691.15

1.3 CREDITS:: [0-0-25] 25 Credits

1.4 SEMESTER-OFFERED:: Ninth (IX)

1.5 PRE-REQUISITES::

2. OBJECTIVE:: The specific objectives of the course could depend on the problem definition for the project but the overall performance will be measured on the following criteria.

UNIT-I: Literature survey- Students will be having a brief literature survey on the topic selected by the allotted instructor/supervisor. A brief draft should be prepared out this activity.

UNIT-II: Problem Identification - An appropriate/feasible problem should be selected for the problem.

UNIT-III: Experimental/Theoretical work- The work needs to necessarily be novel or original and to the best possible extent, an extension of the previous projects, so that a conclusive study can be made. A proper strategy should be worked out to solve/explore the problem undertaken. Accordingly, experiments should be planned well in advance, executed, followed by data analysis and interpretation.

UNIT-IV: Presentation/Demonstration- A presentation should be made for the work done during the semester having clear identification of problem/s undertaken, work done, objectivity of data analysis and a summary of the important results in both a seminar and report.

A combination of the above criteria can be used to grade the work. Typically, the following guidelines could be helpful for projects taken up as part of different semesters.

Evaluation procedure: Literature Survey 25%, Experimental/Theoretical work 50%, Demonstration and Presentation 25%.

3. COURSE TOPICS:: Choice of student and the instructor.

4. READINGS 4.1

TEXTBOOK:: Instructor’s choice.

4.2 *REFERENCE BOOKS:: Instructor’s choice.

5. OTHER SESSIONS

5.1 *TUTORIALS:: No

5.2 *LABORATORY:: Yes

5.3 *PROJECT:: Yes

6. ASSESSMENT (indicative only)

6.1 HA:: [0% GRADE]

6.2 QUIZZES-HA:: [0% GRADE]

6.3 PERIODICAL EXAMS:: [0% GRADE]

6.4 *PROJECT:: [100% GRADE]

6.5 FINAL EXAM:: [0% GRADE]

7. OUTCOME OF THE COURSE:: Project goals as defined by the instructor.

Chemical Methods: Thermal and ultrasound decomposition methods. Reduction methods. Coprecipitation, Combustion Methods, sprays & freeze drying, sol-gel and hydro/solvothermal methods. Chemical vapour deposition. Microwave assisted synthesis. Thermal spraying. Electro and Photochemical synthesis. Template Synthesis.

2. 
   Nanostructures and Nanomaterials, G. Cao.
   
3. 
   Introduction to Nanotechnology, Charles P. Poole Jr. and F. J. Owens.
   
4. 
   Nanostructured Materials, Carl C. Koch.
   
5. 
   Hand book of thin films, by Maisel
   
6. 
   Thin Film, by A. Goswami
   

1. 
   Reference Book:
   

1. 
   Modern Ceramic Engineering by David W. Richerson
   
2. 
   Principles of Ceramic Processing, James S. Reed.
   
3. 
   Art and Science of Growing Crystals, J.J. Gilman.
   
4. 
   The Growth of Single Crystals, R.A. Laudise.
   

5. OTHER SESSIONS

5.1 *TUTORIALS: 0:
5.2 *LABORATORY: 0:

5.3 *PROJECT: None:

6. ASSESSMENT (indicative only)
6.1 HA:: [xx% GRADE]
6.2 QUIZZES-HA:10: [xx% GRADE]
6.3 PERIODICAL EXAMS:30: [xx% GRADE]
6.4 *PROJECT: None: [xx% GRADE]
6.5 FINAL EXAM:60: [xx% GRADE]

7. OUTCOME OF THE COURSE:

After completion of the course the students are supposed to a have a brief account of different techniques to synthesize the materials with reduced dimension, their characterizations with different techniques and an understanding of physical properties of the materials when dimension is reduced from bulk (3 dimensions) to zero dimension.

To acquaint the students with different class of functional materials, basic understanding of functional behaviour, structure property correlations and the advance applications of functional materials.

Definition and scope of functional materials.

Shape memory effects and shape memory alloys. Novel magnetic shape memory alloys. Invar alloys.

Functional materials in computer memory devices: Ferroelectric RAM. Phase change materials in optical media storage devices.

Giant and colossal magnetoresistance materials and their applications. Multiferroic materials and their applications as sensors and actuators. Functionally graded materials and their applications.

Hydrogen storage materials and their applications. Membranes and Fuel Cell electrode materials.

Smart gels: Materials, synthesis and applications.

1. Advanced Functional Materials: Electrical, Dielectric, Electromagnetic, Optical and Magnetic Applications by Deborah D. L. Chung

2. Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 2: A Perspective from Theory and Experiment by B. Sanyal and  O. Eriksson

3. Functional Materials: Preparation, Processing and Applications by S. Banerjee 

4. Physics of Functional Materials by Hasse Fredriksson  and Ulla Åkerlind 

4.2 REFERENCE BOOKS:

Shape Memory Alloy Engineering: For Aerospace, Structural and Biomedical Applications by Leonardo Lecce and Antonio Concilio

5. OTHER SESSIONS

5.1 *TUTORIALS: 0:

5.3 *PROJECT: None:

6. ASSESSMENT (indicative only)
6.1 HA:: [xx% GRADE]
6.2 QUIZZES-HA:10: [xx% GRADE]
6.3 PERIODICAL EXAMS:30: [xx% GRADE]
6.4 *PROJECT: None: [xx% GRADE]
6.5 FINAL EXAM:60: [xx% GRADE]