Didattica integrativa
Esercitazioni
Modalità d'esame
Prova orale
Prerequisiti
course in English for third year students in Physics.
required background: courses of the first two years in Physics, elementary quantum mechanics.
Programma del corso
Structure of liquids, amorphous solids and crystals. X-ray diffraction. Types of crystals: molecular, ionic, covalent and metallic. Phonons. Bloch functions and electronic bands. Optical transitions, band spectra. Excitons. Semiconductor nanostructures. Microcavities and photonic crystals. Plasmonics. Coherent nonlinearities and nonhermitian photonics.
Riferimenti bibliografici
C. Kittel: “Introduction to Solid State Physics”, Wiley
J.M. Ziman, "Theory of solids", Cambridge University Press
handouts