This page contains lecture notes for the Electronic and Optical units. The Magnetics unit was taught by co-instructor David Paul; that material is not available at this time. For each lecture, slides are presented in two versions: the annotated slides with in-class markup by Prof. Marzari, and the original un-annotated versions.
| SES # | TOPICS | LECTURES | UN-ANNOTATED |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic - Nicola Marzari | |||
| 1 | From particles to waves: the Schrödinger equation | (PDF - 1.7 MB) | (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
| 2 | The mechanics of quantum mechanics: operators, expectation values | (PDF - 1.8 MB) | (PDF) |
| 3 |
Measurements and probabilities The harmonic oscillator |
(PDF - 1.3 MB) | (PDF) |
| 4 | The hydrogen atom and the periodic table | (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| 5 | Periodicity and phonons | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 6 | Electrons in a lattice: Bloch’s theorem | (PDF - 1.5 MB) | (PDF) |
| 7 | The nearly-free electron model | (PDF - 2.0 MB) | (PDF - 1.1 MB) |
| 8 |
The tight-binding model Band structures |
(PDF - 3.3 MB) | (PDF) |
| 9 | Semiconductors and insulators | (PDF - 1.5 MB) | (PDF) |
| 10 | Band structure engineering | (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF) |
| 11 | Transport of heat and electricity | (PDF - 2.0 MB) | (PDF) |
| 12 | Inhomogeneous and hot carriers in semiconductors | (PDF - 1.9 MB) | (PDF) |
| 13 | Mid-term exam (during class, 1:30 hours) | ||
| 14 | The p-n diode | (PDF - 1.2 MB) | (PDF) |
| Optical I - Nicola Marzari | |||
| 15 | Optical materials and refractive index | (PDF - 2.1 MB) | (PDF) |
| 16 | Electromagnetism in dielectric media | (PDF) | (PDF - 2.3 MB) |
| 17 | Classic propagation of waves | (PDF - 2.2 MB) | (PDF) |
| 18 | Interband absorption | (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF) |
| Magnetic - David Paul | |||
| 19 | Fundamental of ferromagnetic materials | ||
| 20 | Hysteresis loop and driving energies | ||
| 21 | Hard materials and permanent magnets | ||
| 22 |
Soft materials: thin films and nanoparticles Spintronics and GMR |
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| 23 | Spin valves, spin switches, and spin tunneling | ||
| Optical II - Nicola Marzari | |||
| 24 | Excitons | (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF) |
| 25 | Luminescence | (PDF - 1.0 MB) | (PDF) |
| 26 | Semiconductor quantum wells | (PDF - 1.0 MB) | (PDF) |
| 27 | Final exam | ||
