Electrons in Materials: Schrödinger Equation and Ground State Properties of Free Electron Gas, Free Electron Gas in Three Dimensions, Energy Levels in One Dimension, Fermi-Dirac Statistics vis-à-vis Effect of Temperature, Fermi Energy and Fermi Surface, Density of States, Concepts of Lattice, Unit Cell, Reciprocal Lattice, Wigner Seitz Cell, Brillouin Zones, Nearly Free Electron Model, Origin vis-à-vis Magnitude of Band Gap, Bloch Theorem, Kronig- Penny Model, Empty Lattice Model, Review of Materials in the Light of Band Theory.
Conductivity in Metals: Electron Theory of Metals, DC Electrical Conductivity and Ohm's Law-Classical and Quantum Pictures, Experimental results and their interpretation in pure metals and alloys, Temperature dependence of resistivity, Matthiessen’s Rule and Nordhiem’s Rule, Hall Effect and Magnetoresistance, Thermoelectric Phenomena.
Semiconducting Materials and Devices: Fundamentals (Hydrogen atom, Quantum number, bonding etc), Conductivity and charge concentration calculation, Intrinsic Semiconductors, Extrinsic Semiconductors, Recombination and Generation, Carrier Transport, Continuity Equations, P-N Junctions, P-N Junction Devices
Dielectric Materials: Fundamentals of dielectrics, Theory of Polarization, Polarizability, AC Field Dependence of Dielectric Properties, Nonlinear dielectrics e.g. Ferroelectrics, Piezoelectrics and Pyroelectrics.
Optical Materials: Optical Constants, Atomistic Theory of Optical Properties- Classical and Quantum Approaches, Measurements of Optical Properties, Optical Spectra for Metals, Semiconductors and Insulators.
Magnetic Materials: Basic Concepts, Magnetic Phenomena and Their Interpretation- Classical and Quantum Approaches: Diamagnetism, Paramagnetism, Ferromagnetism, Antiferromagnetism, Soft and Hard Magnetic Materials, Applications.
Superconducting Materials: Fundamentals- Zero Resistance and Meissner effect, Type I and II Superconductors, Critical Current Density, Origin of Superconducting Effect, Experimental Results. |
Texts/Reference Books:
- Charles Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Edition, , John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.
- N. W. Ashcroft, N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Harcourt College Publishers, 1976.
- A. J. Dekker, Solid State Physics, , Macmillan India Ltd., 2006.
- J. M. Ziman, Principles of Theory of Solids, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- R. E. Hummel, Electronic Properties of Materials, 4th Edition, Springer, 2011.
- S. O. Kasap, Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, 3rd Edition, Mc-Graw Hill, 2006.
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