Solid State Physics, 5 cr

Core content

• Bonding and atomic crystals
• Mechanical and thermal properties of materials
• Metals: Classical and quantum mechanical approach
• Semiconductors
• Magnetism, dielectrics, superconductivity, nanostructures

Complementary knowledge

• Lattice structures and theoretical modeling of lattices
• Defects, vibrations, phonons, specific heat
• Free-electron model, density of states
• pn-junction, diode, transistor, LED
• Diamagnetism and paramagnetism, magnetic ordering, polarizability, London theory, Meissner effect

Specialist knowledge

• Non-periodic solids, amorphous materials, van der Waals interactions
• Thermal conductivity
• Bloch theorem, Hall effect, quantum Hall effect
• Solar cells, semiconductor quantum dots
• Low-dimensional systems, BCS theory, quantum devices