Crow Physics

DSC: Solid State Physics

• Crystal Structure
  • Amorphous and Crystalline Materials
  • Bonding in Crystals
  • Closed Packed Structure and Packing Fractions
  • Lattice Geometry
  • The Unit Cell
  • Symmetry Elements
  • Crystal Planes and their Miller Indices
  • Reciprocal Lattice and Ewald's Construction
  • Brillouin Zones
  • Diffraction of X-rays
  • Bragg's Law
• Elementary Band Theory
  • The Free Electron Model
  • The Kronig-Penney Model
  • Band Gap
  • Effective Mass
  • Concept of Mobility
  • Hall Effect in Semiconductors
• Elementary Lattice Dynamics
  • Lattice Vibrations and Phonons
  • Linear Monoatomic and Diatomic Chains
  • Acoustic and Optical Phonons
  • Dulong-Petit's Law
  • Einstein and Debye theories of specific heat of solids
  • $T^3$ Law
• Magnetic Properties of Matter
• Dielectric Properties of Matter