6.730 | Spring 2003 | Graduate

Physics for Solid-State Applications

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Molecules–the Simple Solid (PDF)

Lecture 2: Vibrational and Rotational States in Hydrogen (PDF)

Lecture 3: Metal as a Free Electron Gas (PDF)

Lecture 4: Vibrations in Solids (PDF)

Lecture 5: Specific Heat of Lattice Waves (PDF - 1.4 MB)

Lecture 8: Lattice Waves in 1D Monatomic Crystals (PDF)

Lecture 9: Lattice Waves in 1D with Diatmomic Basis (PDF)

Lecture 10 & 11: Specific Heat of Discrete Lattice (PDF - 1.1 MB)

Lecture 12: Electrons in a Periodic Solid (PDF)

Lecture 13: Electrons in a Periodic Solid (PDF)

Lecture 14: Electrons in a Periodic Solid (PDF - 3.2 MB)

Lecture 15: Electrons in a Periodic Solid (PDF - 3.1 MB)

Lecture 16: Nearly Free Electron Bands (PDF - 1.2 MB)

Lecture 17: Nearly Free Electron Bands (Part III) (PDF)

Lecture 18: Properties of Bloch Functions (PDF)

Lecture 19: Motion of Electronic Wavepackets (PDF)

Lecture 20: Impurity States (PDF)

Lecture 21 & 22: Semi Classical Equations of Motions & Electrons and Holes I (PDF - 1.1 MB)

Lecture 23: Effective Mass (PDF - 1.1 MB)

Lecture 24: Chemical Potential and Equilibrium (PDF)

Lecture 25: Chemical Potential and Non-equilibrium (PDF)

Lecture 26: Inhomogeneous Solids (PDF)

Lecture 27: Scattering of Bloch Functions (PDF)

Lecture 28: Electron-phonon Scattering (PDF)