Instructor: Prof. Clare Yu

Office: RH 210E

Phone: 949-824-6216

E-mail: cyu@uci.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Lecture:2:00 pm--3:20 pm Tu-Th PSCB 230

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/p238C/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.

• Semiconductors
  • Semiconductors: electron dynamics, donor and acceptors
  • Semiconductor devices: diodes, transistors, MOSFETs
• Phase Transitions
• Superconductivity
• Phenomenology and London Theory
• Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• BCS Theory
• Exotic Superconductors
• Classical Magnetism
  • Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Adiabatic Demagnetization
  • Ferromagnetism
  • Additional Topics in Magnetic Ordering