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Lecturer: Reza Sarvari (office EE210) Classes: Saturday-Monday 13:30-15:00 ; Texts:
.(S1) Simon, The Oxford Solid State Basics, Oxford University Press , 2013
Grades(tentative): 20%
Homework homework 1 ; sol 1 ; sol1 ; Lectures: ( Google Drive ) 10 Lecture01 ( Lecture01 ) Statistical Physics Basics, Overview Lecture01p ( Lecture01p ) Example: Ideal Gas Lecture02 ( Lecture02 ) Kinetic Theory - Maxwell Distribution Lecture03 ( Lecture03 ) Elementary Statistical Physics Lecture04 ( Lecture04 ) The Canonical Ensemble Lecture05 ( Lecture05 ) Fermi-Dirac Stat. Lecture06 ( Lecture06 ) Quantum Mechanics, History, Introduction Lecture07 ( Lecture07 ) Quantum Mechanics, Lecture08 ( Lecture08 ) Specific Heat of Solids Lecture09 ( Lecture09 ) Drude Theory of Metals Lecture10 ( Lecture10 ) Sommerfeld Theory of Metals Lecture11 ( Lecture11 ) Chemical Bonds - Ionic, Covalent Lecture12 ( Lecture12 ) 1-d Vibrations of Monoatomic Chain, Phonon Lecture13 ( Lecture13 ) 1-d Vibrations of Diatomic Chain Lecture14 ( Lecture14 ) Crystal Structure Lecture15 ( Lecture15 ) Reciprocal Lattice, Waves in crystals Lecture16 ( Lecture16.png ) Tight Binding Lecture17 ( Lecture17.png ) Near Free Electron Lecture18 ( Lecture18 ) Kroning-Penney, Band Structure Lecture19 ( Lecture19 ) Band Theory Lecture20 ( Lecture20 ) Electron, Hole Notes01 Slides: 0102 03 Crystal - wiki
Structures
of crystals:
Review Presentation Solid Surfaces Crystal structures Crystal Lattice Bravais lattice - wiki 3D graphics Symmetry Exp. Applet (Symm. Solids) Crystal, Symmetry, Diffraction Miller index - wiki Animation of Miller Indices Crystal Planes Claculator
Interactive
simulations
Review
of quantum mechanics: Duality - wiki Wave-particle duality RadioTalk w Afshar Uncertainty Principle Schrodinger Equation Quantum wavefunction Operators and QM Operators and Commutators - wiki Operators in QM Postulates of QM Java applet solving Schrodinger Eq
Electronic band structure - wiki
Energy Band Theory:Periodic Potentials and Bloch's Theorem Periodic systems and Bloch Theorem Bloch’s Theorem: Some Notes Kronig Penney Applet (+) (+) Kronig & Penney paper 1931 Kronig-Penney Model with Mathematica TBD model
Brillouin
zone -wiki
Reciprocal lattice,
Brillouin zone, and Effective mass:Wigner–Seitz cell - wiki direct/reciprocal lattice visualization Effective mass - wiki Wave Packets Point Groups and Bravais Lattices
Bandstructure in 3D for real materials:
Density of states:
Phonons - wiki
Phonons:Java Phonon Applet Vibrations in Crystals Simulations Atomic vibrations Phonon Dispersion
Direct/indirect
band gaps - Wiki
Optical
absorption in semiconductors/photonic crystals:Absorption in Semiconductors Optical processes in semiconductors Optical properties (Si) (GaAs)
Temperature
- wiki
Binary
model systems:Statistical mechanics - wiki Statistical mechanics made simple book Stirling's Approximation Review of Statistical Mechanics Binary Model System
Temperature and entropy:
Laws of thermal dynamics:
Helmholtz
free energy - wiki
Helmholtz free energy, chemical
potential:Chemical potential -wiki Statistical Physics Chemical Potential Helmholtz Free Energy
Entropy
Temp Chemical Potential
Applications of chemical
potential, semiconductor heterojuction:Gibbs Distribution Fermi and Bose Gases Statistical mechanics course
Simulations for
Statistical Physics
Fermi-Dirac
distribution:Fermi–Dirac statistics - wiki Fermi gas Degenerate Fermi Gas Database of Fermi Surfaces
n-typed and p-typed semiconductors:
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Bosons,
Planck/Bose-Einstein distribution:
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Physics of non-equilibrium
Recombination‐Generation:Direct/indirect band gaps () Recombination/Generation Processes Carrier generation/recombination Fundamentals of Optoelectronics Exciton .
Carrier Transport:
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