Instructor: Prof. Clare Yu

Office: FRH 2168

Phone: 949-824-6216

E-mail: cyu@uci.edu

Office Hours: Monday 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Lecture: 9:30 am--10:50 am Tu-Th 2111 FRH

Required Texts:

• Solid State Physics by N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Saunders College Publishing (1976).

Recommended Texts:

• Introduction to Solid State Physics (8th ed.), by C. Kittel, published by John Wiley and Sons (2005).
• Condensed Matter Physics (corrected printing), by M. P. Marder, published by John Wiley and Sons (2000).

URL for this course: http://eiffel.ps.uci.edu/cyu/p238A/class.html

Assignments : There will be homework assignments, due weekly or semiweekly. The homework assignments will be due at the beginning of class. Late homework that is turned in within 24 hours of the deadline will be given half credit. No homework will be accepted after that.

Grading : 100% homework.

• Electrons in Metals
  • Electrical conductivity, Drude model (classical theory)
  • Quantum theory of electrons in metals
• Crystal structures, k-space, reciprocal lattice
• Band structure (Electrons in periodic potentials)
  • Bloch's theorem and general features
  • Weak binding case
  • Tight binding case
• Electronic structure of metals, insulators and semiconductors
• Semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons
• Semiconductors: electron dynamics, donors and acceptors
• Semiconductor devices: diodes, transistors, MOSFETs