Department of Physics

10ΥΚ502 Solid State Physics

Course webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS190

Course outline

Course content

• Motion of charged cariers in periodic potentials: Bloch theorem, energy bands, tight binding approximation, Kronig-Penney model.
• Metals-transport phenomena: Boltzmann transport equation, Fermi-Dirac statistics, Fermi energy, density of states, Drude, Lorentz, Sommerfeld models, Ohm law, temperature dependence of the electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, Wiedemann-Franz law.
• Semiconductors-characteristics and transport phenomena: Effective mass, band bending, statistics of carriers in equilibrium, transport phenomena-drift-diffusion, Hall effect.
• Magnetism: Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism.