Syllabus
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Course Code: EP-502 Course Name: (A) Solid State Physics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | CRYSTAL STRUCTURE I Crystalline and glassy forms, liquid crystals, crystal structure, periodicity, lattice and basis, crystal translational vectors and axes. Unit cell and Primitive Cell, Winger Seitz primitive Cell, symmetry operations for a two dimensional crystal, Bravais lattices in two and three dimensions. Crystal planes and Miller indices, Interplaner spacing, Crystal structures of Zinc Sulphide, Sodium Chloride and Diamond. |
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| 2 | CRYSTAL STRUCTURE II X-ray diffraction, Bragg's Law and experimental X-ray diffraction methods. K-space and reciprocal lattice and its physical significance, reciprocal lattice vectors, reciprocal lattice to a simple cubic lattice, b.c.c. and f.c.c. lattice. |
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| 3 | ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF METALLIC SOLIDS Free electron gas model, Energy levels and density of states in one and three dimensions, Fermi momentum, Fermi energy, Fermi temperature, Effect of temperature, heat capacity of electron gas (explicit calculation), Experimental heat capacity of metals, Concept of thermal effective mass, Electrical conductivity and Ohm’s law, Experimental resistivity of metals, Matthiessen’s rule, Motion in magnetic fields and Hall effect, Thermal conductivity of metals and Wiedmann-Franz law. |
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| 4 | SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Historical introduction, Survey of superconductivity, Super conducting systems, High Tc Super conductors, Isotopic Effect, Critical Magnetic Field, Meissner Effect, London Theory and Pippards’ equation, Classification of Superconductors (type I and Type II), BCS Theory of Superconductivity, Flux quantization, Josephson Effect (AC and DC), Practical Applications of superconductivity and their limitations, power application of superconductors. |
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