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 (get them here if you don't have the book yet).
- 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)
- Week 6: Tight binding and nearly free electrons
(based on chapters 15–16)
- 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
- 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