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Week - 1 |
Introduction to the course, what is Solid State Physics? Arrangements of atoms, Crystal, Lattice, Unit cell, Translation vectors |
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Week - 2 |
Crystal systems, Crystal planes and directions, Miller indices, Diffraction of waves by crystal, Bragg law |
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Week - 3 |
Reciprocal space, Reciprocal lattice, Constraction of reciprocal lattice, Reciprocal lattice vectors, Diffraction condition |
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Week - 4 |
Reciprocal space and Laue equations, Brillouin Zone, Review and Problem solving |
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Week - 5 |
Crystal binding, Crystal of inert gases, Van der Waals-London interaction, Repulsive interaction, Cohesive energy |
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Week - 6 |
1st Mid-Term Exam |
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Week - 7 |
Ionic crystals, Madelung energy and constant |
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Week - 8 |
Covalent crystals, Metals, Hydrogen bonds |
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Week - 9 |
Phonons - Crystal vibrations, Monatomic and diatomic linear chain, w-k relation, Optical and acoustic modes |
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Week - 10 |
Phonons - Thermal properties, Phonon heat capacity, Density of states (DOS), Debye and Einstein models for DOS |
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Week - 11 |
Free electron fermi gas, Fermi-Dirac distribution and temperature, Free electron gas in 3D |
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Week - 12 |
2nd Mid-Term Exam |
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Week - 13 |
Energy bands, Bloch Theorem, Kronig-Penney model |
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Week - 14 |
Semiconductor crystals, Direct and indirect semiconductors, Effective mass, E-k relation |
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