Solid State Physics (MP464)
Lectures: Wednesdays 9:05-9:55 (Hall C) and Thursdays 15:05-15:55 (Hall C)
A
booklist and topics
for the course.
Lectures notes
accompanying the course.
Problem sheets:
problem sheet 1
;
problem sheet 2
;
problem sheet 3
.
Handouts for the course:
2-dimensional Bravais lattices
.
Brillouin zones for 2-dimensional hexagonal lattice
.
An example of a
quasi-crystal
: a regular structure with five-fold symmetry but no translation symmetries, a Penrose tiling of the 2-dimensional plane.
The fourteen
3-dimensional Bravais lattices
.
Body centred cubic lattice structure
.
Face centred lattice structure
.
Hexagonal close packed structure
.
Symmetries of the cube
.
Examples of
reflection symmetries of the cube
.
The first four
Brillouin zones
of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
Bragg peak directions
for reflection from the first two Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
Incident Bragg peak directions
for reflection from the first four Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
Reflected Bragg peak directions
for reflection from the first four Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
Fermi surface for square lattice
in 2-dimensions.
Fermi surface of Copper
Contour plot of
tight binding potential for two dimensional square lattice
.
Notes on
Fourier transforms.