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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.

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

Teaching assistants

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