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Physics for Solid-State Applications

Subject: Physics

Art: Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872, Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines, 1840 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Rajeev Ram, Prof. Terry Orlando
Term: Spring 2003
Level: Graduate
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Physics for Solid-State Applications

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Lecture 1: Molecules–the Simple Solid

Lecture 2: Vibrational and Rotational States in Hydrogen

Lecture 3: Metal As a Free Electron Gas

Lecture 4: Vibrations in Solids

Lecture 5: Specific Heat of Lattice Waves

Lecture 8: Lattice Waves in 1D Monatomic Crystals

Lecture 9: Lattice Waves in 1D with Diatmomic Basis

Lecture 12: Electrons in a Periodic Solid

Lecture 13: Electrons in a Periodic Solid

Lecture 14: Electrons in a Periodic Solid

Lecture 15: Electrons in a Periodic Solid

Lecture 16: Nearly Free Electron Bands

Lecture 17: Nearly Free Electron Bands (Part III)

Lecture 18: Properties of Bloch Functions

Lecture 19: Motion of Electronic Wavepackets

Lecture 20: Impurity States

Lecture 23: Effective Mass

Lecture 24: Chemical Potential and Equilibrium

Lecture 25: Chemical Potential and Non-equilibrium

Lecture 26: Inhomogeneous Solids

Lecture 27: Scattering of Bloch Functions

Lecture 28: Electron-Phonon Scattering