MSCI 406 Properties of Solids 2012-Fall

Deliverables, for undergraduate (graduate) students:

< 10 (15) min presentation and its file;

½ (1) printed page tight format description, include 3-4 relevant bibliographic references, helpful figs/diagrams.

Tentative course-projects, to be updated/adjusted. You can suggest your own topic if relevant to this course.

Sample topics (some might be already taken):

Elemental Superconductors -

Toughness of metals – James Hiester

Amorphous metals – Emily Hacopian

Nanocrystalline materials –

Conducting polymers – Benjamin Freeman

Hardest materials (diamond, SiC, …) - Gonglan Ye

Blue-laser materials (GaN) –

Structures of high-Tc ceramics - Peter Matre

Shape memory alloys – Lei Tao

Liquid Crystals – Andrew Stout

GaN materials – Jiangtan Yuan

Giant Magnetoresistance –

Photonic materials – Sachin Gupta (organic photonics)

Photonic crystals - Wale Lawal

Epitaxial films (strain, dislocations there) - Tyler Houseweart

Ferroelectrics –

Piezoelectric Materials – Avani Shah

Optics of nanotubes

Aharonov-Bohm effect, in nanotubes –

Diamond films -

Electrical properties of graphene – Ellen Wendte

Electrical properties of graphene nanoribbons –

Electrical properties of nanotubes – Matias Soto

Physics of van der Waals forces – Marco Rodrigues

Electronic properties of h-BN Materials –

Thermal conductivity of CNT - Kelsey Heyson

Electronic properties of doped diamond –

Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes – Hari Jaswal

Raman spectroscopy of graphene - Paul Chaguine

Solar cells from amorphous Si – Emiko Buchberg

Solar cells – Yihan Huang

Thermoelectric properties of Silicon nanowires – Qiqi Xiang

Nanoparticle structures and their corresponding colors –

Fluorographene properties – Jonathan Zev

Mott insultaors - Luqing Wang

CNT for strain detection --

(as of Dec 5: 22)