Materials of the TN2844 course Solid State Physics
Syllabus
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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)
Test results
Minitest 1
Results report, solution 1, solution 2.
Midterm
Practice exams
Exams from years 16-17
Exams archive, solutions minitests 2017 archive (caution, those solutions are not always correct), solutions final.
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