Welcome to Chemistry 630, "Chemistry of Inorganic Materials" !
Here is some information to get you started...
Link to Jeremy's Lecture Notes Pages:
Link to chapters from textbook:
Prof. Hamers' Lecture Notes and Powerpoint Presentations:
Sept.11 Structures, Miller Indices
Sept. 13: Electronic structure of solids I and II: Finite linear chain,
Sept. 25 and Sept. 27: Electronic structure in two dimensions: graphite and nanotubes
Sept. 29: Guided tour of the hexagonal Brillouin Zone Lost in k-space ? This shows you how to handle the hexagonal lattice.
Famous paper by Wallace (1947) : This works through many of the details. It is a very important historical paper, and should be quite readable. Note that he defines k in terms of x and y components, rather than separated by 60-degrees.
Mathcad calculation and plot of graphite bandstructure:This lets you view the band structure of graphite and rotate it around to get a better idea of what it looks like
Link to real-space and k-space nanotube viewer This will let you put in a particular wrap vector, show you the nanotube, and show you the slices through the Brillouin Zone that correspond to that wrap vector.
Nanotube electronic structure (Dresselhaus): This is the famous paper that first showed how to understand the differences between semiconducting and metallic nanotubes.
Selection rules: Optical and Valence band measurement of band structure
Phonons2 (Brillouin scattering, heat capacity, etc.)
Semiconductor-Liquid Interfaces
Nucleation and Growth 2 (11/27/06)
Problem Sets :