Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Solid structure, phase changes, bonds between atoms
Week - 2	Crystal Structure: Introduction, Crystallography, Crystal Lattice, Base, Wigner Seitz Cell, Primitive Cell, Unit cell concepts, crystal planes and directions, Typical crystal structures: Cubic and close-packed structure, Structure of ionic solids, diamond and ZnS structures, Quasi crystals
Week - 3	Crystal Structure: X-Ray Diffraction, Bragg's Law, Reverse Lattice, Structure Factor, Atomic Form Factor
Week - 4	Crystal Dynamics: Introduction, Sound waves, vibrations of one-dimensional crystals: vibrations of crystals with identical atoms, vibrations of crystals with different diatomic atoms, vibrations of three-dimensional crystals
Week - 5	Crystal Dynamics: Phonons, Heat capacity due to lattice vibrations, Einstein and Debye Models
Week - 6	Midterm
Week - 7	Crystal Dynamics: Crystal Defects, Anharmonic Phenomena - Thermal expansion, Phonon-phonon interaction, Thermal conduction with phonons
Week - 8	Free electrons in metals: Free electron model, Energy levels in one dimension, Fermi-Dirac Distribution, Three-dimensional free electron gas, Heat capacity of electron gas
Week - 9	Metals and Conductivity; Fundamental properties of metals, Conductivity in real space, Drude model, Lorentz model, Quantized free electron model
Week - 10	Effect of periodic lattice potential - Energy bands, Classification of solids according to their electrical conductivity, Tight Bonding Approximation, effective mass
Week - 11	Midterm
Week - 12	Semiconductors
Week - 13	Fermi Surface
Week - 14	Plasmon, Polariton and Polaron