More details provided in the syllabus.

Assignments

1. due Thursday, January 31 — pdf
2. due Thursday, Feburary 14 — pdf
3. due Thursday, Feburary 28 — pdf
4. due Thursday, March 21 — pdf
5. due Thursday, April 11 — pdf

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. Qualitative discussion of band structure and resulting Fermi surface — pdf
12. Band structure calculations — pdf
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