Solid State Physics (MP464)

Lectures: Wednesday 11:05-11:55 (JHL6) and Thursday 13:05-13:55 (Hall H).

Tutorial: Monday 11:05-12:55

A booklist and topics for the course.

Lectures notes.

Problem sheet for the first part of the course.
Solutions to tutorial questions 1-6.
Solutions to tutorial questions 7-12.
Solutions to tutorial questions 13-18.
Solutions to tutorial questions 19-22.
Solutions to tutorial questions 23-25.

Notes from tutorial on 15-02-21.
Notes from tutorial on 22-02-21.
Notes from tutorial on 11-03-21.

First assignment, due in before 5pm on Friday the 5th March.
Solution to the first assignment.

Handouts for the course:

1. 2-dimensional Bravais lattices.
2. Brillouin zones for 2-dimensional hexagonal lattice.
3. An example of a quasi-crystal : a regular structure with five-fold symmetry but no translation symmetries, a Penrose tiling of the 2-dimensional plane.
4. The fourteen 3-dimensional Bravais lattices.
5. Body centred cubic lattice structure.
6. Face centred lattice structure.
7. Hexagonal close packed structure.
8. Symmetries of the cube.
9. Examples of reflection symmetries of the cube.
10. The first four Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
11. Bragg peak directions for reflection from the first two Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
12. Incident Bragg peak directions for reflection from the first four Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
13. Reflected Bragg peak directions for reflection from the first four Brillouin zones of the 2-dimensional square lattice.
14. Notes on Fourier transforms.