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6.730

Physics for Solid-State Applications

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2003

Topics

  • Molecules–the Simple Solid
  • Vibrational and Rotational States in Hydrogen
  • Metal As a Free Electron Gas
  • Vibrations in Solids
  • Specific Heat of Lattice Waves
  • Lattice Waves in 1D Monatomic Crystals
  • Lattice Waves in 1D with Diatmomic Basis
  • Specific Heat of Discrete Lattice
  • Electrons in a Periodic Solid
  • Nearly Free Electron Bands
  • Nearly Free Electron Bands (Part III)
  • Properties of Bloch Functions
  • Motion of Electronic Wavepackets
  • Impurity States
  • Semi Classical Equations of Motions & Electrons and Holes I
  • Effective Mass
  • Chemical Potential and Equilibrium
  • Chemical Potential and Non-equilibrium
  • Inhomogeneous Solids
  • Scattering of Bloch Functions
  • Electron-Phonon Scattering

Readings

  • Lundstrom, M. · Fundamentals of Carrier Transport . Second Edition · Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2000)
    Required
  • Ashcroft, N. W., Mermin, N. D. · Solid State Physics · Washington, DC: Holt, Rinehart & Wilson
    Listed reading
  • Silsbee, R. H., Drager, J. · Simulations for Solid State Physics · Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (1997)
    Listed reading
  • McKelvey, J. P. · Solid State for Engineers and Materials Science · R. E. Krieger (1993)
    Listed reading
  • McKelvey, J. P. · Solid State and Semicondcutor Physics · R. E. Krieger (1984 reprint)
    Listed reading
  • Kittel, C. · Introduction to Solid State Physics . Seventh Edition · New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons
    Listed reading
  • Datta, S. · Quantum Phenomena · Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley (1989)
    Listed reading
  • Burns, G. · Solid State Physics · Burlington, MA: Academic Press, Inc. (1985)
    Listed reading
  • Lundstrum, M. · Fundamentals of Carrier Transport · Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley (1990)
    Listed reading
  • Lai, W. M., David, R. · Introduction to Continuum Mechanics · Pergamon Press (1993)
    Listed reading
  • Crandall, S. H., Karnopp, D. C. · Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Systems · Krieger (1982)
    Listed reading
  • Madelung, O. · Semicondcutors: Group IV Elements and III-V Compounds · New York, NY: Springer-Verlag (1991)
    Listed reading
  • Harrison, W. A. · Electronic Structure & Properties of Solids · New York, NY: W. H. Freeman (1980)
    Listed reading
  • Sietz, F., Turnbull, D. · Solid State Physics . Vol. 2 · Burlington, MA: Academic Press (1956)
    Listed reading
  • Singh, J. · Physics of Semiconductors and their Heterostructures · New York, NY: McGraw-Hill (1992)
    Listed reading
  • Lundstrom, Mark. Fundamentals of Carrier Transport . 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0521631343. Notes will be handed out to cover the first two-thirds of the class. This required text be used for the last third of the class. It can be purchased from Quantum Books.
    Required
  • Aschroft, N. W., N. D. Mermin. Solid State Physics . Saunders College Publishing, 1976. ISBN: 0030839939. This text is not required, but if you wish to purchase a textbook that covers some of the material in the first two-thirds of the class I would suggest this text because it is the one used in 6.732.
    Listed reading
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