MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare

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A free and open online publication of educational material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum, ranging from introductory to the most advanced graduate courses. On the OCW website, each course includes a syllabus, instructional material like notes and reading lists, and learning activities like assignments and solutions. Some courses also have videos, online textbooks, and faculty insights on teaching. Knowledge is your reward. There's no signup or enrollment, and no start or end dates. OCW is self-paced learning at its best. Whether you’re a student, a teacher, o

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1:19:26

Lecture 5 on Topic 5: Viscosity of Glass

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture discusses phase-change materials used in data storage, such as CDs and DVDs, and in phase-change memory (PCM) technology. PCM stores data by changing electrical conductivity.

1:15:11

Lecture 6 on Topic 6: Glass Shaping

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture discusses glass viscosity, its reference points, and the working range for glass processing. It also touches on the mixed alkali effect and shear-rate dependence.

1:19:03

Lecture 10 on Topic 8: Mechanical Properties

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture covers the mechanical properties of glass and amorphous materials, including strength, toughness, Griffith crack theory, fracture mechanics, stress corrosion, fatigue, and fracture statistics using Weibull distribution analysis.

1:14:58

Lecture 2 on Topic 2: Classes of Amorphous Materials

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture covers classes of amorphous materials, including silicate, borate, and chalcogenide glasses, and their structures, properties, and applications, discussing network formers, modifiers, and intermediates and their impact on glass properties.

1:17:09

Lecture 23 on Topic 15: Characterizing the Amorphous State

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers characterizing amorphous materials using X-ray diffraction, pair distribution functions, Raman spectroscopy, and DSC. Includes structural, thermal, and glass transition analyses using various analytical methods.

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Lecture 9: MIT Glass Lab Tour

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Peter Houk and Mariel Bass View the complete course YouTube Playlist The 3.071 class visited the MIT Glass Lab. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at Support OCW at

1:13:26

Lecture 17 on Topic 12: Amorphous Silicon Macroelectronics

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture covers amorphous silicon properties, hydrogen passivation, key applications in displays and solar cells, comparison with poly-silicon, and the Staebler-Wronski degradation in photovoltaics.

1:11:53

Lecture 7 on Topic 6: Glass Shaping

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture discusses glass viscosity, its reference points, and the working range for glass processing. It also covers the mixed alkali effect and shear-rate dependence.

1:10:43

Lecture 22 on Topic 15: Characterizing the Amorphous State

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers characterizing amorphous materials using X-ray diffraction, pair distribution functions, Raman spectroscopy, and DSC. Includes structural, thermal, and glass transition analyses using various analytical methods.

1:14:19

Lecture 24 on Topic 16: Biomineralization

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture explains how biomineralization creates inorganic solids through organic–inorganic composites and how transient amorphous phases, such as ACC and ACP, enable hierarchical structures.

1:14:10

Lecture 13 on Topic 9: Glass Strengthening

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture covers the course policy and introduces amorphous materials, specifically glasses, covering their definition, structure, and formation.

1:07:51

Lecture 18 on Topic 13: Optical Properties

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers glass optical properties (refraction, dispersion, Abbe numbers), loss mechanisms (absorption, Rayleigh scattering), and coloring with ions or through photochromic/electrochromic effects.

1:11:55

Lecture 21 on Topic 14: Optical Fibers and Waveguides

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers optical fiber design, including total internal reflection, light confinement, fiber drawing, preform fabrication (MCVD), multimode/single-mode fibers, microstructured fibers, and planar waveguide techniques for integrated photonics.

1:08:46

Lecture 12 on Topic 9: Glass Strengthening

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture continues Topic 8 and covers glass-strengthening techniques through heat treatment, chemical strengthening via ion exchange, and surface compressive-stress methods; applications span automotive, architecture, defense, and displays.

1:11:50

Lecture 19 on Topic 13: Optical Properties

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers glass optical properties (refraction, dispersion, Abbe numbers), loss mechanisms (absorption, Rayleigh scattering), and coloring with ions or through photochromic/electrochromic effects.

1:19:51

Lecture 3 on Topic 3: Glass Forming Theories

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture discusses glass formation, focusing on amorphous semiconductors and metallic glasses, and their unique properties. It highlights the importance of topology for glass stability.

1:00:51

Lecture 14 on Topic 10: Metallic Glass

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture reviews metallic glass structure, key mechanical properties, deformation mechanisms, and shear localization. It also covers applications and deformation maps.

1:12:24

Lecture 4 on Topic 4: Phase Change Data Storage

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture discusses topological constraint theory in glass science, focusing on the mean coordination number (MCN) and its relation to glass stability. MCN is a weighted average of the coordination numbers of constituent atoms.

1:03:12

Lecture 20 on Topic 14: Optical Fibers and Waveguides

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist This lecture covers optical fiber design, including total internal reflection, light confinement, fiber drawing, preform fabrication (MCVD), multimode/single-mode fibers, microstructured fibers, and planar waveguide techniques for integrated photonics.

1:13:44

Lecture 15 on Topic 10: Metallic Glass

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture reviews metallic glass structure, key mechanical properties, deformation mechanisms, and shear localization. It also covers applications and deformation maps.

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Lecture 8 on Topic 7: Viscoelasticity and Relaxation

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MIT 3.071 Amorphous Materials, Spring 2025 Instructor: Juejun Hu View the complete course YouTube Playlist The lecture covers phase-change materials, specifically Ge-Sb-Te alloys, used in data storage applications, including their structure, properties, and performance metrics, as well as their applications in optics and non-volatile memory.

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