Syllabus
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Course Code: B-PHY-502 Course Name: (I) Solid State Physics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | CRYSTAL STRUCTURE I Crystallineandglassyforms,liquidcrystals,crystalstructure,periodicity,latticeand basis,crystaltranslationalvectorsandaxes.UnitcellandPrimitiveCell,WingerSeitz primitiveCell,symmetry operationsfora twodimensionalcrystal,Bravaislatticesintwo andthreedimensions.CrystalplanesandMillerindices,Interplanerspacing,Crystal structures ofZinc Sulphide, Sodium Chloride and Diamond. |
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| 2 | CRYSTAL STRUCTURE II X-raydiffraction,Bragg'sLawandexperimentalX-raydiffractionmethods.Kspaceandreciprocallatticeanditsphysicalsignificance,reciprocallatticevectors,reciprocallattice 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 Historicalintroduction,Survey ofsuperconductivity,Superconductingsystems,HighTc Superconductors,IsotopicEffect,CriticalMagneticField,MeissnerEffect,London TheoryandPippards’equation,ClassificationofSuperconductors(typeIandTypeII), BCSTheoryofSuperconductivity,Fluxquantization,JosephsonEffect(ACandDC), PracticalApplicationsofsuperconductivityandtheirlimitations,powerapplicationof superconductors. |
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