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Department of Physics
PO Box 440903
Moscow, ID 83844-0903
(208) 885-6380
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PHYS 463/563
Spring 2008
Introduction to Solid State Physics/
Solid State Physics
Syllabus (last update: XXXXXXX)
Time and Place: TBA, MWF 1:30-2:20
Textbooks:
- Solid State Physics, 2nd ed. J.R. Hook & H.E. Hall (required for 463 and 563)
- Solid State Theory, Walter Harrison
- Solid State Physics, Ashcroft and Mermin
- Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology, M. Sze
- Condensed Matter Physics, M. Marder
Homework Assignments:
Assignment 1 (posted 1-11-08, due 1-18-08)
Assignment 2 (posted 1-17-08, due 1-25-08)
Assignment 3 (posted 1-28-08, due 2-1-08)
Assignment 4 (posted 2-7-08, due 2-11-08)
Assignment 4B (posted 2-15-08, due 2-25-08) (UPDATED 2-19-08: 2nd formula in problem 1 fixed)
Assignment 5 (posted 3-4-08, due 3-17-08)
Assignment 6 (posted 3-31-08)
Assignment 7 (posted 4-4-08)
Assignment 8 (posted 4-17-08)
Assignment 9 (posted 4-28-08)
Writing Assingment (posted 4-8-08)
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. 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: June 15, 2009)
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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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