SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Fall 2001

Lectures: MWF 9-10 ; Room 13-4101

Recitation: F 11-12 ; Room 38-136

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INSTRUCTOR: M. S. Dresselhaus

STAFF:

• Oded Rabin -- Head TA; Room 13-3025 oded@mgm.mit.edu
• Marcie Black -- TA assistant; Room 13-3041 mrb@mgm.mit.edu
• Yu-Ming Lin -- TA assistant; Room 13-3037 yming@mgm.mit.edu
• Laura Doughty -- Support; Room 13-3005 laura@mgm.mit.edu

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COURSE OUTLINE

• Part I: Transport Properties

  • Review of Energy Dispersion Relations in Solids
  • Examples of Energy Bands in Solids
  • Time--Independent Perturbation Theory
  • Effective Mass Theory
  • Transport Phenomena
  • Thermal Transport
  • Electron and Phonon Scattering
  • Harmonic Oscillators, Phonons, and Electron-Phonon Interaction
  • Two Dimensional Electron Gas, Quantum Wells \& Semiconductor Superlattices
  • Transport in Low Dimensional Systems
  • Ion Implantation and RBS

• Part II: Optical Properties

  • Review of Fundamental Relations
  • Drude Theory--Free Carrier Contribution to the Optical Properties
  • Interband Transitions
  • Time Dependent Perturbation Theory
  • The Joint Density of States and Critical Points
  • Absorption of Light in Solids
  • Optical Properties of Solids Over a Wide Frequency Range
  • Impurities and Excitons
  • Luminescence and Photoconductivity
  • Harmonic Oscillators, Phonons, and the Electron-Phonon Interaction
  • Optical Study of Lattice Vibrations
  • Non-Linear Optics
  • Electron Spectroscopy and Surface Science
  • Amorphous Semiconductors

• Part III: Magnetic Properties

  • Review of Topics in Angular Momentum
  • Magnetic Effects in Free Atoms
  • Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism of Bound Electrons
  • Magnetism in Solids
  • Paramagnetism of Nearly Free Electrons
  • Landau Diamagnetism
  • The Quantum Hall Effect
  • Magnetic Ordering
  • Magnetic Devices

• Part IV: Superconducting Properties of Solids

  • Review of Superconducting Properties of Solids
  • Macroscopic Quantum Description of the Supercurrent
  • Microscopic Quantum Description of the Supercurrent
  • Superconductivity in High Transition Temperature Cuprate Materials

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