PHYS731 Solid-State Physics

- University of Maryland, College Park -

Fall 2011

Class: TR 11-12:15PM in PHYS 1219
Instructor: Prof. Ian Appelbaum
Office Hours: Anytime at Physics 1368 (CNAM annex)
Phone: x5-0890
email: appelbaum at physics.umd.edu OR appeli at umd.edu

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Schedule


PHYS731F11notes.pdf: Complete, organized, bookmarked lecture notes

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Lectures
HW1 due 9/20 soln Noise: autocorrelation and power spectral density 1: Intro (9/1)
HW2 due 10/6 soln transfer matrix method 2: Drude model I - DC response (9/6)
HW3 due 10/20 soln matlab integration 3: Drude model II - Noise and AC response (9/8)
Take-home exam due 11/3 soln Fuchs paper 4: Drude model III - Plasmon and Heat transport (9/13)
HW4 due 11/17 soln 5: Sommerfeld model I - Zero Temperature (9/15)
HW5 due 12/1 soln 6: Sommerfeld model II - Charge transport and Fermi surface (9/20)- I&L 9.4
final exam (12/13) 7: Sommerfeld model III - Elastic scattering, tunneling, and I-V relations (9/22)
8: Conductance quantization and Quantum Hall Effect (9/27)- I&L 9.9, P.XVI
9: Edge states, SdH/dHvA, 3D DOS and thermodynamic properties at T=0 (9/29) - I&L 6.2, P.VIII, P.XVI
10: Sommerfeld expansion, chemical potential and heat capacity (10/4) - I&L 6.4
11: Thermionic emission, Thomas-Fermi screening (10/6) - I&L 6.6, 6.5
12: State broadening and Coulomb blockade (10/11) - Datta Ch. 1
13: Exchange and Ferromagnetism: Local moment model (10/13) - I&L 8.6, 8.2, 8.3
14: Ferromagnetism: Stoner theory (10/18) - I&L 8.4, 8.5
15: Ferromagnetism: Magnetic domains (10/20) - I&L 8.9
16: FM memory and spin injection (10/25) - I&L P.VII
17: 1D periodic potential: bandstructure (10/27) - I&L 7.1, 7.2
18: Bandstructure of arbitrary potential (11/1) - I&L 7.1, 7.2
19: 2D and 3D bandstructure (11/3) - I&L 2.1-2.5
20: Fermi surface, direct/indirect bandgap, effective mass (11/8) - I&L 7.4
21: 1D LCAO/ tight-binding (11/10) - I&L 7.3
22: 2D LCAO graphene pi bands (11/15)
23: 3D LCAO and semiconductors (11/22)
24: Extrinsic semiconductors (11/29) I&L 12.1-12.4
25: semiconductor devices (12/1) I&L 12.6-12.8
26: Phonon dispersion (12/6) I&L 4.1-4.3
27: Phonon specific heat capacity (12/8) I&L 5.1-5.3
                                                                                                                                            

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