Detailed Schedule, Reading Instructions, and Exercises VT2016 for FYST25

Lecture Notes
The links to the exercises will be activated in due course.

Week 1: Band structure of crystals and semiconductor heterostructures

Read
 Chapter 1 of Notes
Read Snoke sections 1.1-3+6-9, 2.1+2+4

or Kittel chapters 7-9 , which also contains parts of week 4

or Ibach Lüth chapter 7 and section 12.7
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 5 April in Emils mailbox, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture
Link to periodic table from NIST
 For repetition from introductory courses: Introduction to bandstructure
For repetition of basic quantum mechanics: Magnetic field in quantum mechanics

Week 2: Electron transport and scattering processes

Read
 Chapter 2 of Notes
Read Ibach Lüth chapter 9 and section 12.5 and panel XIV

or Kittel chapters 8-9 and appendices E,F

or Snoke 3.1-3 cursorily, 4.1+2 cursorily, 5.1+6+8+9
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 12 April in Emils mailbox, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture
For repetition from introductory courses: Introduction to electric conduction
For repetition of basic quantum mechanics: Fermi's golden rule, Operator treatment of harmonic oscillator

Week 3: Magnetism

Read
 Chapter 3 of Notes
Read Ibach Lüth chapter 8.1-4+6+8

or Kittel chapters 14+15

or Snoke 10.1+2+3.1
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 19 April in Emils mailbox, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture
You also might have a look at the Scientific Background of the Nobelprice 2007 awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
The fun part: Watch a  levitating frog
 For repetition of basic quantum mechanics: Quantum theory of angular momentum
For Boltzmann/Fermi/Bose distribution

Week 4: Introduction to dielectric function and semiconductor lasers

Read
 Chapter 4 of Notes
Read Ibach Lüth sections 11.1-4+10

or Kittel chapters 11 (first part) and polariton part of chapter 11

or Snoke sections 5.2 and 7.1+2+4
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 26 April in Emils mailbox, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture
you also might have a look at the Scientific Background of the Nobelprice 2000 awarded to Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, and Jack S. Kilby
A brief summary on complex functions and Cauchy's integral formula

Week 5: Quantum theory of gain

Read
 Chapter 5 of Notes
Read Snoke sections 4.6, 7.3 and 9.1-4
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 3 May in Emils mailbox, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture

Week 6: Electron-electron interaction

Read
 Chapter 6 of Notes
Read Ibach Lüth sections 6.5 and 11.9+11

or Kittel chapter 10 and exciton part of chapter 11

or Snoke section 2.3, 5.5, and 8.10,11, where however a different formulation of the theory is used.
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 19 May in Emils mailbox, 8:30, hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture

Week 7: Superconductivity

Read
 Chapter 7 of Notes
Read Ibach Lüth sections 10.1-7

or Kittel chapter 12 and appendix H

or Snoke Sections 11.2.1-5
Do
 Exercises, to hand in by 27 May in Emils mailbox , hints for solutions

Slides from Lecture