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PHYS646: Electron Theory of Solids II (PAST/FUTURE SEMESTER)
Offering:
Spring, Class 3, cr. 3.
Prerequisites:
PHYS 645
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Description:
Crystal imperfections, impurities and lattice defects. Magnetic properties: diamagnetic effects, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, resonance phenomena. Ferroelectricity. Optical properties of metals and semiconductors; interband and intra-band transitions, excitons, effects of crystal imperfections.
Instructor(s):
GIULIANI, GABRIELE F.
Email:
gfg@physics.purdue.edu
Textbook(s) for Spring 2009
Title | Author | Edition | ISBN | Publisher | Req/Opt | Notes |
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Solid State Physics | Ashcroft/Mermin | Latest | 0-03-083993-9 | Brooks/Cole | Optional | |
RECOMMENDED: Quantum Theory of the Electron Liquid | Gabriele Giuliani & Giovanni Vignale | March 31, 2005 | 0521821126 | Cambridge University Press | Optional |
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