Solid State Physics PHYS409

This is the course page for my PHYS409 (Solid State Physics Fall 2016) students.

View/download the Syllabus with a tentative schedule here.  The schedule is more of a suggestion and I’m happy to mix it up for a class like this.  Please do let me know, either directly or via anonymous feedback (contact page) if you want to hit some topic other than what I have planned.

I like to have a tangible book in my hand, but this exists.  I would normally assume that this is illegal, but archive.org is pretty straight-laced.  I know they clear it with artists when they publish stuff to their live music database (which you ought to check out).  I’m sure if this is an erroneous assumption that somebody will let me know.

Supplemental stuff here (check back, I’ll add more as we go if the RIC people ever set up the Mathematica server for us).

And here’s a list of Project Ideas for the presentation.

You can use the presentation ideas as starting points for the literature presentations (or v.v.).  Explain the problem the researchers want to solve and relevant physics, the technique used, and summarize the results.  Through the library website, you can access Academic Search Complete under the databases menu.  We have access to a number of journals that could have solid state articles.  Here are a few good places to start:

•  Journal of Applied Physics
• Thin Films
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Progress in Physics (check with me)
• Materials
• Physical Review B
• Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism
• Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Physical Review Letters
• Surface Science
• Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology
• Catalysis Today
• Applied Surface Science
• Review of Scientific Instruments
• Also, anything from professional publications like Physics Today or the MRS Bulletin will work (I have hard copies of both if you want to borrow them).