Solid State Physics
Ionic Bonding - page 1 / page 2
Covalent and Metallic Bonding - page 1 / page 2
Lecture 11 (17/10/07) - Free-Electron Theory of Metals Free-Electron Theory of Metals
Filling of Energy Levels - Energy States / Number of States / Electron Density / Fermi Energy
Lecture 12 (18/10/07) - Band Theory of Solids / Electrical Conduction Band Theory - Band Formation / Hybridization / Band Diagrams
Electrical Conduction - Conductors / Insulators / Semiconductors / Summary
Flow of Electric Current
Lecture 13 (22/10/07) - Electrical Conduction (cont.) Drude's Theory - page 1 / page 2 / Problems with Model
Pauli's Theory - page 1 / page 2
Electrical Resistance
Mobility
Recap of the Various Velocities - Drift Velocity / Fermi Velocity / Thermal Velocity
Lecture 14 (24/10/07) - Semiconductors Intrinsic Semiconductors - page 1 / page 2
Extrinsic Semiconductors - page 1 / page 2 / page 3
Hydrogenic Impurity Model - page 1 / page 2 / Effective Mass / example / Band Diagrams
Lecture 15 (25/10/07) - Carrier Concentration Introduction
The Hall Effect - page 1 / page 2 / page 3
Lecture 16 (29/10/07) - Semiconductor Devices The Junction Diode
The Depletion Region
Forward and Reverse Bias
The Transistor Tutorial 11 solutions Tutorial 12 solutions
Lecture 17 (31/10/07) - Band Structures
The Band Structure of Silicon - page 1 / page 2
Direct and Indirect Gap Semiconductors - page 1 / page 2
Lecture 18 (1/11/07) - Photoconduction
Introduction
Absorption of Light
Photoconductive Detectors
Example - page 1 / page 2 / page 3 Tutorial 13 solutions
THAT'S IT FOLKS!
Unfortunately, past papers are quite sparse and not entirely
relevant. So once you're through the tutorials, work through the
relevant examples in Chapters 40 to 43 of the textbook.
There's also some (but not many) relevant questions in Papers 2 of
some recent summer session papers.
Papers and solutions are available here.
Note the error in the Fermi probability - the "-1" in the parenthesis should read "+1".
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Last updated 18/11/07, Steve Curran