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)
5 Coherent and incoherent transport: four probe resistance, coherent and incoherent serial connection of scattering centers, demonstration of Ohm's law.
6 The Boltzmann equation: non-equilibrium distribution function, the Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation, solution of the Boltzmann equation in finite tamparature gradient or in finite electric field. Calculation of the conductance in an isotropic system. Thermoelectric phenomena. Temperature dependence of the resistance in metals.
4 Magnetism: ????????
- Steven H. Simon - The Oxford Solid State Basics, Chapter 20-22
5 Superconductivity: Phenomenology of superconductors. Macroscopic wave function and the Meissner effect
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
