Discuss on the Natural Sciences.Project Primer This exercise culminates in a presentation by each student of 20+/-2 minutes. We will consult along the way to make sure you’re on track. You can sign up now for your consultation appointment on the day marked for the purpose on the schedule. Please have a viable topic and have done some reading on it by the time we meet. I want to guide your path, not choose it for you – the topic is to be of your choosing, but should concern the solid state discipline. Here is a list of topics that you may find helpful as suggestions, but any approved topic is fair game. “What” Possibilities: Defects (point vacancy, adatom, dislocation, interstitial, steps, terraces, etc.) Confinement Structures Liquid Crystals (Quasi) 2-D Materials Heusler Alloys (full and/or half) Spintronics Nanoparticles Plasmons Polaritons Polarons Photovoltaics Optical Excitations Magnetism ( NMR- nuclear magnetic resonance)-(one reference) Non-Crystalline Solids Optronics Quantum Dots Meta Materials (Invisibility Cloaking, etc.) Semiconducting Devices (LED, LASER, Transistor, etc.) Superconductor (High TC or other) Surface Electronic States and/or Resonances “How” Possibilities: RHEED, LEED, UPS, XPS, HAXPES, IPES, 2PPE, STM, STS, XRD, TPD, FT-IR, EELS, NR, TOF-SIMS, NMR, TEM, DFT, XRSW, and the list goes on… The presentation should be aimed at your classmates, who are highly intelligent but novices in your chosen topic. The grade for the presentation will be assigned with equal weight given to the practice of presentation and the physics involved. We will work on presentation skill all semester in the low-stakes literature presentation environment. Reference: Brunner, E., & Rauche, M. (2020). Solid-state NMR spectroscopy: an advancing tool to analyze the structure and properties of metal–organic frameworks. Chemical Science, 11(17), 4297-4304. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc00735h
