Chapter 3: The Structure of Crystalline Solids

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1. Issues to Address
2. Energy and Packing
3. Crystalline vs Noncrystalline packing
4. Metallic Crystals
5. Simple Cubic(SC) structure
6. Atomic Packing factor for SC
7. Phase Diagrams: BCC Structure: movie
8. Atomic Packing factor for BCC
9. Face Centered Cubic(FCC) structure: movie
10. Atomic Packing Factor:FCC
11. FCC:ABCABC ....Stacking
12. Hexagonal Closed Packed Structure(HCP)
13. Compounds: NaCl movie
14. Theoretical Density
15. Characteristics:Selected Elements
16. Comparison:Densities of Material Classes
17. Crystals
18. Polycrystals
19. Properties: Single vs Polycrystal
20. Demo 1: Heating/Cooling of a Fe wire
21. X-ray Confirmation of Crystals
22. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy