Solid State Physics Course Calendar

August
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
21
Pre-class survey
22
23
2.1 Lattice and Basis
2.2 Crystal Structure Types
2.3 Slices

24

25
3.2 Scattering Density

26

           
September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Aug 28
3.0 Fourier Series
3.1 The Diffraction Equation


Aug 29

Aug 30
2.4 Miller Indices
3.3 What Happens When Delta K = G

Aug 31

1
4.2 Powder Diffraction: ω - 2 Θ Scans

2

4

5
Labor Day

6
EST at conference
Census day (aka drop day)

 

7
EST at conference

8
EST at conference
3.4 Structure factor

9

11
3.5 Reciprocal Lattice for Centered Cells
EST at conference 4.1 Ewald Sphere

12

13

14
Rough draft HWMK1

15
4.3 Thin Film Diffraction: Omega Rocking Curves
4.4 Thin Film Diffraction: Phi Scan

16
Rough draft Lab1

18
5.1 Introduction to Phonons
5.2 Nyquist Group Velocity

19

20
5.3 Phonon Quantization

21
HMWK1 due

22
5.4 Phonon Density of States

23
Lab1 due

25
6.3 Thermal Conductivity

26

27
6.1 Planck Distribution; Cp within Einstein Approximation
6.2 Cp within Debye Approximation
28
29
6.4 Phonon-Phonon Scattering
6.5 Temperature Dependences

30

           
Octoberer
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
2

3
Lab 2 data assembled

4
7.1 Inelastic scattering theory

5

6

7
Rough draft HMWK2

9

10
Final project title

11

12
Rough draft Lab2

13

14
HWMK2 due

16

17
Fall Break

18
Fall Break

19
Oral Exam

20
8.1 Free electron intro

21
Lab2 due

23
8.2 Density of states and Fermi Dirac
8.3 Heat capacity

24

25

26

27
8.4 Screening

30
Final Project 1 slide

           
November
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Oct 30
9.1 Bloch and Central Eq.

Oct 31

1
9.2 Vanishing potential and Brillouin zones

2
Rough draft HMWK 3

3
9.3 Band structure of metals and insulators

4
Rough draft Lab 3

6
10.1 Excitations

7

8
10.2 Effective mass and holes

9
HMWK 3 due

10
10.3 Fermi level

11
Final project 3 slide update
Continuing student withdrawal day

13
10.4 Conductivity in intrinsic semiconductors
14

15
Lab 3 report

16 17
18
Final project 3 slides
20 21
HMWK 4 rough draft
22
23
No class

24
Thanksgiving

25

 

           
December
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Nov 27

Nov 28

Nov 29

Nov 30
HMWK 4 due

1

2
New student withdrawal day

4

5

6

7
Final project presentations

8
Final project presentations

9
Dead Day

11

12
Oral exam

13
Oral exam

14

15
Final project report due

16