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PHY 353 — SOLID STATE PHYSICS I

BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Crystals, glasses, polymers. Unit cells - Bravais lattices . Types of symmetry. Some important crystal structures .Miller indices Primary bonding - Covalent, Ionic, Metallic. Seimdary bonding - van der waal. Bragg Formula. Reciprocal lattice. Powder Diffraction. Structure Factor. Experimental Methods - Powder, Lane, rotation. Applications of X-ray diffraction. Types of Defects. Crystal growth.

Credits
3
Level
Level 300

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