Solid State Physics I
Phys 725 — Fall 2015 |
Department of Physics & Astronomy |
Instructor | Dr. Kevin Beach |
Office: | 206 Lewis Hall |
Email: | kbeach@olemiss.edu |
Website: | https://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~kbeach |
More details provided in the syllabus.
Final Exam
Here are two final exams from a course I previously taught. The content is slightly different (e.g., we didn’t cover Boltzmann transport or numerical band structure methods), but they’re a useful study guide. The form of our final (on Tuesday, December 8 at 12:00) will be similar.
Lectures
- Introduction — pdf
- Symmetry breaking and ordered phases — pdf
- Solids, crystallinity, and Bravais lattices — pdf
- Scattering and experimental determination of crystal structures – pdf — see Kittel Ch. 1
- Cohesion and bonding — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 3, pp. 47–70
- Complex structures — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 19 and 22
- Lattice vibrations — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 4 and 5
- Free electron gas — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 6
- Models of nearly-free and tightly-bound electrons — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 7
- Tight-binding — pdf
- Experimental probes of the Fermi surface
- Semi-classical dynamics of band electrons — see Kittel Ch. 8
- Dielectric function of metals and insulators — pdf
- Semiconductors — pdf
- Fabrication technologies and p-n junctions — pdf
- Semiconductor devices — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 17
- Surfaces, interfaces, and low-dimensional systems — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 17
- Defects and disorder — pdf