Week 1: Basics of thermodynamics: laws of thermodynamics, concept of chemical potentials and criteria for equilibrium
Week 2: Refresher on Solution Thermodynamics and Phase Stability
Week 3: Phenomenology of multicomponent diffusion and various frames of reference used for measuring diffusion fluxes
Week 4: Solving diffusion equation for various boundary conditions including solution of multicomponent diffusion equation
Week 5: Self diffusion, impurity diffusion, interdiffusion and intrinsic diffusion; Experimental determination of interdiffusion and intrinsic diffusion coefficients
Week 6: Point defects in crystalline solids and mechanisms of diffusion
Week 7: Random walk, diffusivity and correlation effects in diffusion
Week 8: Derivation of correlation factors in some crystalline lattices
Week 9: Derivation of fundamental driving forces for diffusion: chemical potential gradients and atomic mobilities; cross effects in multicomponent diffusion driven by defect mechanisms
Week 10: Interrelation between multicomponent diffusion coefficients, atomic jump frequencies and thermodynamic factors
Week 11: Multiphase diffusion, diffusion structures and phase diagrams
Week 12: Experimental determination of activation energies for diffusion; Fast diffusion paths: Grain boundary and pipe diffusion
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