PHY 555: Solid State Physics 1
Instructor: Marivi Fernandez-Serra, Physics B139, maria.fernandez-serra@stonybrook.edu
Lecture Time: Mondays and Wednesdays 9:30-10:50am
Lecture room: B131
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Lectures
Lecture 1: Intro and motivation
Lecture 2: Electrons in 1D Periodic Potential
- Lecture 2 notes
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.1
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 8
Lectures 3-4: Bravais Lattice and Reciprocal Lattice
- Lecture 3 notes
- Lecture 3 slides
- Brilloin Zones and High Symmetry directions
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter II
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapters 4 & 5
- Cohen and Louie, Chapter II
Lecture 5: Tight Binding Band Structure I
- Lecture 5 notes
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 10
- Ziman, Chapter 3
Lecture 6-7: Tight Binding Band Structure II
- Lecture 6 notes
- Lecture 6 slides
- Chadi-Cohen Paper
- Chadi-Cohen TB program
- Readings:
- Grosso and Parravicini, Chapter I.4
- Ashcroft and Mermin, Chapter 10
- Ziman, Chapter 3