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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
physics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Hadar Steinberg
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Hadar Steinberg
Mr. Doron Grossman
Course/Module description:
The course will cover basic and advanced topics in Solid State Physics
Course/Module aims:
The students will be familiar with basic concepts in solid state physics: Conductance in metals, crystal structure, electronic band structure and phonons.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
The students will be familiar with basic concepts in solid state physics: Conductance in metals, crystal structure, electronic band structure and phonons.
Attendance requirements(%):
-
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures, TA hour, weekly exercise.
Course/Module Content:
1. Background
2. Electronic transport in metals: The free electron model. The conductivity tensor. Hall Effect.
3. Crystal structure: Periodic structure, Bravais Lattice, reciprocal lattice.
4. The free electron gas: Density of States.
5. Electronic band structure: Bloch theorem; The nearly free electron approximation, energy bands.
6. Electronic band structure: Tight binding approximation.
7. Probing the Fermi Surface: de-Haas van-Alfven and Shubnikov-de-Haas effects
8. Phonons: Acustic and optical modes. Heat capacity.
9. Low dimensional systems: Quantum Hall Effect, transport in ballistic quantum wires.
10. Graphene.
11. Screening: Thomas Fermi theory.
12. Superconductivity and Magnetism.
13. Semiconductors.
Required Reading:
The course will be based on the following text books:
1. Kittel
2. Ashcroft & Mermin
Additional Reading Material:
Will be given during the course
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 80 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 10 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 10 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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