Solid-state physics 1 (Fisica dei solidi 1)
(see the official program)
While most relevant digital materials are distributed in this page,
this Moodle
site provides a platform for interactions: questions/answers and any
kind of feedback, plus the 2021 lecture recordings.
Day-by-day detailed lecture topics
- academic year 2022-2023.
Textbooks
The textbook best fitting the contents of this course is:
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C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics
(Wiley, New York, 2005).
Other useful textbooks covering specific topics:
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J.R. Hook and H.E. Hall, Solid State Physics (Wiley Chichester 1991)
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G. Grosso and G. Pastori Parravicini, Solid State Physics
(Academic, San Diego, 2000)
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N.W. Ashcroft and N.D. Mermin, Solid State Physics (Holt Sanders
NY 1976)
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J.M. Ziman, Principes of the theory of solids (Cambridge
University Press 1972)
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J. Callaway, Quantum Theory of the Solid State (Academic 1991)
Extra material
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An
interactive 3D visualization of the 14 Bravais lattices, and
a slowish but
detailed video
- Wikipedia resources:
the
page
on Bravais lattices, the
page
on crystal systems, and the
list
of space groups
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A document with specific additional
information and figures
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A
simulator of 1D electron bands
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a script
semiconductor_carrier_concentration.py
for evaluating the chemical potential and carriers concentration for a
doped semiconductor, as a function of temperature
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Recorded
2019-2020 lectures
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