MSE 520 - Structure of Materials

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Undergraduate Curriculum Chair and Instructor. Description of Crystal Structure-Symmetry, Point and Space Groups. Structures of different material types-glasses, polymers, semiconductors, ceramics and metals. Relationship between bonding and structural types. Methods of structure determination. Diffraction of x-rays and neutrons--x-ray methods. Microstructures of solids. Topology of granular structures. Grain boundary structures. Fractal description of microstructures.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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