PřF:IC033 Fluorine chemistry - Course Information

IC033 Introduction to fluorine chemistry/Cadmium chalcogenides

Faculty of Science
Spring 2009

Extent and Intensity

8/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Dr. Matjaz Kristl (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Jiří Pinkas, Ph.D. (lecturer)

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Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

To obtain basic information about fluorine chemistry
To obtain basic information about cadmium chalcogenide semiconductors

Syllabus

1. Introduction to fluorine chemistry – from fundamentals to applications.
Fluorine: discovery, properties, production
Important fluorine compounds with main emphasis on HF
Fluorine compounds of commercial interest: UF6 in uranium enrichment process, fluorochlorohydrocarbons in air conditioning and refrigeration, Teflon
Brief introduction to research of hydroxylammonium fluorometallates done by our research group
2.Cadmium chalcogenides – important II – IV semiconductors.
Fundamental terms about semiconductors: energy bands, band gap Doping, p – and n – type semiconductors
Semiconductor materials by groups, II – VI semiconductors
Traditional methods of synthesis
Modern methods for preparation of cadmium chalcogenide nanoparticles
Sonochemical method and its use in the synthesis of CdS and CdSe
3.Recent achievements in sonochemical synthesis of binary chalcogenides

Literature

MASON, Timothy J. Sonochemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 92 pp. Oxford Chemistry Primers. ISBN 0-19-850371-7. info

Assessment methods

block course in three lectures

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.