Applied Solid State Physics

General data

• Course name: Applied Solid State Physics
• Course code: BMETE11AF11;
• Requirements: 2/0/0/V/2;
• Semester: Fall;
• Language: English;
• Responsible teacher: Szabolcs Csonka, associate professor
• Lecturer: Máté Vigh, assistant professor
• Department: Department of Physics
• Programme: BSc Physics (mandatory) and MSc Physics (recommended for students without preliminary studies in solid state physics)
• Exam: Written/Oral exam at the end of semester

Topics

1 Semiconductor physics: band structure, electrons and holes, impurity doping, statistical mechanics of semiconductors.

• Steven H. Simon - The Oxford Solid State Basics, Chapter 17

2 Semiconductor devices: band structure engineering, p-n junction and the transistor.

• Steven H. Simon - The Oxford Solid State Basics, Chapter 18

3 Electron transport in nanowires: Characteristic length-scales, conductance of a quantum wire, Landauer formula, conductance quantization

• Electron transport in nanowires: Landauer formula, conductance quantization (e-learning material)

4 Thermoelectric phenomena in nanowires: Seebeck and Peltier effect, heat conduction and Wiedemann-Franz law

• Thermoelectric phenomena (e-learning material)

4 Magnetism:

• Steven H. Simon - The Oxford Solid State Basics, Chapter 20-22

5 Superconductivity: macroscopic wave function and the Meissner effect

• The Feynman lectures on Physics: The Schrödinger Equation in a Classical Context: A Seminar on Superconductivity

Literature

Steven H. Simon: The Oxford Solid State Basics

N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin: Solid State Physics

C. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics