PHYS 463/563
Fall 2009
Introduction to Solid State Physics/
Solid State Physics
Syllabus (last update: Sept. 2 2009)
Time and Place: MWF 11:30-12:20, EP 202
Office Hours: T, W, Th, 4-5pm
Final exam: Tuesday, Dec. 15 10:00 – 12:00
Class webpage: http://www.phys.uidaho.edu/phys463_berven
Textbooks/Optional books:
- Solid State Physics, 2nd ed. J.R. Hook & H.E. Hall (required for 463 and 563)
- Solid State Theory, Walter Harrison (good reference)
- Solid State Physics, Ashcroft and Mermin (good reference)
- Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology, M. Sze (good reference)
- Condensed Matter Physics, M. Marder (good reference)
Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th ed., Charles Kittel (classic reference)(list of known errata in Kittel 8th ed.)
Homework Assignments:
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 4B
Assignment 5
Assignment 6
Assignment 7
Assignment 8
Assignment 9
Notes and Solutions (password required)
Humor
Here's a poem that a fellow labmate of mine composed in honor of another lab member studying electron-phonon coupling in Au-Pd nano-scale wires. The Ballad of Manoj
The only solid-state physics joke I know:
'In k-space, no one can hear you scream!'
(If you don't get the joke, click here.  )
Contact Information
Dr. Christine Berven, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
rm 317 EP building
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho 83844-0903
Phone: (208) 885-6194
Email: berven@uidaho.edu
Class Website: www.phys.uidaho.edu/phys463_berven
(last update: August 10, 2009)
Picture of first transistor with Shokley, Brattain and Bardeen
(www.cedmagic.com/history/transistor-1947.html)
Quantized thermal conductivity device and data
(http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v404/n6781/full/404974a0.html)
Conductance of 1-D chain of nanoparticles at
room temperature showing single electron effects
(www.phys.uidaho.edu/berven)
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