Examination procedure
<p>oral exam</p>
Examination procedure notes
<p>traditional or seminar style oral exam</p>
Prerequisites
course in English for third year students in Physics and for master students in Materials and Nanotechnology. required background: courses of the first two years in Physics, elementary quantum mechanics.
Syllabus
Structure of liquids, amorphous solids and crystals. X-ray diffraction. Types of crystals: molecular, ionic, covalent and metallic. Phonons. Free electron model of metals. Bloch functions and electronic bands. Optical transitions, band spectra, excitons, polaritons, plasmons. Basic elements of nonlinear optics. Semiconductor nanostructures, microcavities and photonic crystals.
Bibliographical references
C. Kittel: “Introduction to Solid State Physics”, Wiley
J.M. Ziman, "Theory of solids", Cambridge University Press
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