Electronic Properties of Materials (MatS8003)
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This is one of the required courses of the graduate Materials Science program. It is concerned mainly with electrons in metals, semiconductors and insulators. It presents a detailed quantum mechanical treatment of the nature of their states, their manifested properties (electrical, optical, magnetic, and thermal), and applications of these properties to semiconductor devices and lasers. It also introduces the quantum mechanical treatment of ionic motion, phonons and their consequences. The course is based on Kittel’s “Introduction to Solid State Physics” and Hummel’s “Electronic Properties of Materials”. | |||||||||||
Revised: December
29, 2004 |
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