Teaching

Solid State Phyics Course

• Chapter 1: Introduction.
• Chapter 2: Crystal Lattice, basis, miller index et.al. .
• Chapter 3: Symmetry of Crystals .
• Chapter 4: Real Crystals .
• Chapter 5: reciprocal space .
• Chapter 6: Crystal structure determination .
• Chapter 7: Crystal binding - ionic and covalent bond.
• Chapter 8: Crystal binding - metallic bond, H bond and VdW interaction.
• Chapter 9: Classical Theory of the Harmonic Crystal.
• Chapter 10: Quantum Theory of the Harmonic Crystal.
• Chapter 11: Models of Einstein and Debye.
• Chapter 12: Optical Properties in Ionic Crystal.
• Chapter 13: Anharmonic Effects in Crystals.
• Chapter 14: Measuring Phonon Dispersion Relations
• Chapter 15: The Drude Theory and Sommerfeld Theory of Metals
• Chapter 16: Thermal Properties, paramagnetism, conduction…of metal
• Chapter 17: band theory for solids: Electrons in a weak periodic potential
• Chapter 18: band theory for solids: Tight-Binding Model
• Chapter 19: Other methods for calculating band structure
• Chapter 20: Symmetry of energy bands
• Chapter 21: Density of states and Fermi surface
• Chapter 22: Electrons in electric field
• Chapter 23: Electrons in magnetic field
• Chapter 24: Measuring the band structure of solids
• Chapter 25: electron transport in metal
• summary
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• Thesis
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• lecture by Hrvoje Petek
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