Advanced Solid State Physics

Advanced Solid State Physics PHYS

PHYS3701 Solid State Physics

3 hours One requisite

1 Fermi Surface and Metals / Construction of Fermi Surfaces. / Electron Orbits, Hole Orbits, and Open Orbits. / Calculation of Energy Bands

2 Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism / Langevin Diamagnetism Equations / Quantum Theory of Diamagnetism of Mononuclear Systems. / Paramagnetism. / Quantum Theory of Paramagnetism. / Paramagnetic Susceptibility of Conduction Electrons

3 Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism / Ferromagnetic Order. / Magnons / Neutron Magnetic Scattering. / Ferrimagnetic Order. / Antiferromagnetic Order. / Ferromagnetic Domains. / Single Domain Particles

4 Superconductivity / Zero resistance. / Perfect diamagnetism and Meissner effect. / The critical field. / Theory of superconductivity. / Josephson effect. / Applications of superconducting materials

5 Transport properties in Conductors and Semiconductors / Hall effect. / Quantum Hall effect. / Optical properties in solids. / Dielectric and Ferroelectrics

6 Practical Part / Students will conduct various experiments in the practical part of the course. Each student will perform the experiment, collect data, extract result, and prepare a written report every week

1.1 Mapped to: K1

Define Fermi levels.