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.

1. 2012 final — pdf
2. 2013 final — pdf (exam) / pdf (solutions)

Lectures

1. Introduction — pdf
2. Symmetry breaking and ordered phases — pdf
3. Solids, crystallinity, and Bravais lattices — pdf
4. Scattering and experimental determination of crystal structures – pdf — see Kittel Ch. 1
5. Cohesion and bonding — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 3, pp. 47–70
6. Complex structures — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 19 and 22
7. Lattice vibrations — pdf — see Kittel Chs. 4 and 5
8. Free electron gas — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 6
9. Models of nearly-free and tightly-bound electrons — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 7
10. Tight-binding — pdf
11. Experimental probes of the Fermi surface
12. Semi-classical dynamics of band electrons — see Kittel Ch. 8
13. Dielectric function of metals and insulators — pdf
14. Semiconductors — pdf
15. Fabrication technologies and p-n junctions — pdf
16. Semiconductor devices — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 17
17. Surfaces, interfaces, and low-dimensional systems — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 17
18. Defects and disorder — pdf