README.md

Materials of the TN2844 course Solid State Physics

Lecture notes

• Week 1: Phonons and specific Heat
  (based on chapter 2 of the book)
  Exercises: 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8

• Week 2: Free electron model
  (based on chapters 3–4)
  Exercises 3.1, 3.3, 4.2, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7

• Week 3: Atoms and bonds
  (based on chapters 5–8)
  Exercises 5.2, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

• Week 4: Electrons and phonons in 1D
  (based on chapters 9–11)
  Exercises 9.2, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.2, 11.5

• Week 5: Crystal structure and diffraction
  (based on chapters 12–14, up to and including 14.2)
  Exercises 12.3, 12.4, 13.3, 13.4, 14.2

• Week 6: Tight binding and nearly free electrons
  (based on chapters 15–16)
  Exercises 15.1, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1, 16.2

• Week 7: Semiconductors
  (based on chapters 17–18)

• Week 8: Magnetism
  (based on chapters 19-20)

Practice exams

Exams from years 16-17

Exams archive, solutions minitests 2017 archive (caution, those solutions are not always correct), solutions final.

Test results

Minitest 1

Results report, solution 1, solution 2.

Midterm

Results report, solution

Course book

The Oxford Solid State Basics by Steven H. Simon

Course discussion chat

Whenever you have a question outside of regular hours, reach the course team and your fellow course participants in this chat:

https://chat.quantumtinkerer.tudelft.nl/solidstate

Course team

Lecturers

• Anton Akhmerov, ssp@antonakhmerov.org, office F334
• Sander Otte, a.f.otte@tudelft.nl, office F182
• Toeno van der Sar, t.vandersar@tudelft.nl, office D108

Teaching assistants

• Piotr Benedysiuk
• Iacopo Bertelli
• Willeke Roden
• Di Xu