Readings | Amorphous Materials | Materials Science and Engineering

[AV] = Varshneya, Arun K. Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses. Academic Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780127149707.

[JS] = Shelby, James E. Introduction to Glass Science and Technology. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005. ISBN: 9780854046393. [Preview with Google Books]

Doremus, Robert H. Glass Science. 2nd ed. Wiley-Interscience, 1994. ISBN: 9780471891741.

Musgraves, J. D., L. Calvez J. Hu, eds. The Springer Handbook of Glass. Springer, 2016. (forthcoming)

Course readings.
SES #	READINGS
1	[AV] Chapters 1 and 2. [JS] Chapter 1.
2	[AV] Chapters 1 and 5. [JS] Chapter 5.
3	[AV] Chapter 3. [JS] Chapter 2. 3.022 "Nucleation, Precipitation Growth and Interface Kinetics." Topological Constraint Theory Thorpe, M. "Continuous Deformations in Random Networks." Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 57, no. 3 (1983): 355–70. Mauro, J. "Topological Constraint Theory of Glass." (PDF - 2.7MB) American Ceramic Society Bulletin 90, no. 4.
4	Raoux, Simone, and Matthias Wuttig, eds. Phase Change Materials: Science and Application. Springer, 2009. ISBN: 9780387848730. [Preview with Google Books] Hong, Seungbum, Orlando Auciello, and Dirk Wouters, eds. Emerging Non-Volatile Memories. Springer, 2014. ISBN: 9781489975362. [Preview with Google Books] Wuttig, Matthias. "Phase Change Materials and Phase Change Memory?" MRS Bulletin 39, no. 8 (2014): 703–10.
5	[AV] Chapter 9. [JS] Chapter 6.
6	No readings.
7	[AV] Chapters 8 and 13, Appendix A [JS] Chapter 9. (does not cover relaxation)
8	[AV] Chapter 18. [JS] Chapter 9.
9	[AV] Chapters 13.8 and 18.12. [JS] Chapter 9, Section 4.4.
10	[AV] Chapters 14 and 16. [JS] Chapter 8. 3.024 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials: "Band Gap" Lecture 12 (PDF), "Band Diagram" Lecture 13 (PDF), and "Engineering Conductivity" Lecture 17 (PDF).
11	Kasap, Safa, and Peter Capper. "Amorphous Semiconductors: Structural, Optical, and Electrical Properties." and "Amorphous and Microcrystalline Silicon." Chapters 25, and 26 in Handbook of Electronic and Photonic Materials. Springer, 2007. ISBN: 9780387260594. Street, R. A. Technology and Applications of Amorphous Silicon. Springer, 1999. ISBN: 9783540657149.
12	[AV] Chapter 19. [JS] Chapter 10. 3.024 Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials: "Wave Optics" Lecture 21 (PDF).
13	No readings.
14	3.012 Fundamentals of Materials Science: "X-ray Diffraction." 3.014 Materials Laboratory: "X-ray Diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, and Calorimetry."