MATERIALS STRUCTURE, GROWTH AND SYNTHESIS

Course Information
TitleΔΟΜΗ, ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΝΘΕΣΗ ΥΛΙΚΩΝ / MATERIALS STRUCTURE, GROWTH AND SYNTHESIS
CodeΜΦΥ653
FacultySciences
SchoolPhysics
Cycle / Level2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter
CoordinatorEleni Paloura
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID40000236
Class Information
Academic Year2017 – 2018
Class PeriodWinter
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours8
Class ID
600112174
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Scientific Area
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Adapt to new situations
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Work in an international context
  • Work in an interdisciplinary team
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Design and manage projects
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Respect natural environment
  • Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
- Defects: Basic crystallography. Types of defects. Dynamic and static structural defects. Line defects – dislocations. Topological characterization of dislocations – Burgers vector – Volterra cuts. Edge, screw and mixed dislocations. Dislocations in fcc, bcc, and hcp structures. Dislocation motion (glide, climb). Elastic properties and energy of dislocations. Forces on and between dislocations. Dislocation multiplication mechanisms. Extended defects, stacking faults, twins, interfaces, grain boundaries (low and high angle). - Nucleation and Growth: Theory of homo and heterogeneous nucleation. Stability of nuclei. Nucleation rate. Growth modes of bulk and thin film crystalline materials. Diffusion transformations in solids. Nuclei growth and interphase migration. Growth controlling mechanisms. Second-phase shape: interfacial energy and misfit strain. Nucleation at solid/vapour and solid/liquid interphases. Growth from the melt. Dendritic growth - Criteria for the selection of growth techniques and environmental issues. Bulk material growth from the melt (Chochralski, Bridgman). Thermodynamics of bulk growth. Growth rate, impurity incorporation and distribution inhomogeneities. Zone methods and impurity redistribution. Analysis of bulk-growth related problems. Growth of thin films. Physical vapor and chemical vapor deposition (PVD and CVD respectively).CVD: growth mechanisms, growth rate control, effect of reactor geometry, CVD modifications. Plasma technology and its applications in materials growth: PECVD, sputter deposition, plasma spray, plasma ashing/etching/stripping. Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE): growth mechanism, vacuum requirements, impurity control, modifications of MBE. Effects of mismatch on the crystalline quality of the epi-layer. In-situ characterization methods (AES, XPS, LEED, RHEED). - Basic thermodynamics of phase diagrams. Thermodynamic equilibrium. Gibbs free energy of single component systems and binary solutions. Ideal, regular and real solid solutions. Construction of binary phase diagrams from Gibbs free energy curves. Simple phase and partial miscibility systems. The lever rule. Construction of binary phase diagrams from cooling curves. Ternary systems and the Gibbs triangle. Applications using the “MATTER” software package
Keywords
defects, nucleation, growth, thermodynamics, phase diagrams
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Course Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Laboratory Teaching
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
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Seminars✓
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Written assigments✓
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Student Assessment
Description
written exams, term paper, project
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
  • Written Exam with Problem Solving (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
σημειώσεις
Last Update
11-11-2015