Solid State Physics 2

Syllabus

• Semiconductors:
  Energy bands, effective mass, cyclrotron resonance, intrinsic and extrinisic semiconductors, calculating chemical potential, p-n junction, Thomas Fermi screening, Biased p-n junction .
• Magnetic materials:
  Magnetic Hamiltonian, perturbation theory, Hund's Rules, Curie's Law, Pauli paramagnetism, exchange interaction, superexchange, Curie-Weiss law, spin waves.
• Superconductivity:
  Meisner effect, London Equation, Ginzburg Landau theory, critical current, upper critical field, introduction to BCS formalism.

Sources:

1. Ashcroft and Mermin, Solid State Physics.
2. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Superconductivity of metals and alloys.
3. Michael Tinkham, Introduction to superconductivity