More details provided in the syllabus.
Assignments
- due Thursday, January 31 — pdf
- due Thursday, Feburary 14 — pdf
- due Thursday, Feburary 28 — pdf
- due Thursday, March 21 — pdf
- due Thursday, April 11 — pdf
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
- Qualitative discussion of band structure and resulting Fermi surface — pdf
- Band structure calculations — pdf
- Dielectric function of metals and insulators — pdf
- Semiconductors — pdf
- Fabrication technologies and p-n junctions — pdf
- Semiconductor devices — pdf — see Kittel Ch. 17