ELEC 414: Perovskites: Design, Processing and Structure - Property Relations

Perovskites are a large family of materials of scientific and technological interest due to their enormous range of material properties. This course uses fundamental constructs and project based active learning toward design, synthesize, characterization and improved understanding of "simple", "simply mixed" and more complex, including high entropy and high temperature superconducting halide and chalcogenide perovskites. Temperature dependent atom properties, radii and polarizability, Mossotti-Lorenz-Lorentz-Clausius relation, and (diluted) electric-field dipole engineering at the nanoscale (E-DENS) are used within the new simple material model (NSMM) to investigate and strengthen understanding of structure - property relations, including mechanisms for and temperature of specific structural phase transitions, including linkages to thermodynamic phase diagrams.