ECEN5345 – Introduction to Solid State

Fall 2009

MWF 9:00 – 9:50 am

ECEE 265

 

Professor J. Gopinath

 

 

 

Homework

HW#10, due Friday November 13

HW#9

HW#8

Paper Guidelines and Topics

HW#7

HW#6

HW#5

 

Final exam

December 14 from 1:30 to 4 pm.

 

Grader

Brandon Reese: brandon.reeseatcolorado.edu.

 

The optional reading on plasmons is from the 7th edition of Kittel.  If you have a different edition, look for the chapter entitled ‘Plasmons’.

 

A link to the supplemental reading on plasmons is below.

 

Syllabus

Revised Schedule

Supplemental Plasmon Reading: Peyghambarian

 

CONTENT

Introductory course for further studies in solid state and optical materials and devices. Covers optical constants, free electron gas, plasmons, energy bands, semiconductors and doping, excitons, quantum wells, phonons, and electrooptic effects.

 

TOPICS

1. Optical constants

2. Free electrons and metals

3. Plasmons

4. Free electron gas, k-space

5. Energy bands (only cover qualitative perturbation) & Fermi surfaces

6. Advanced topics on metal band structures & transport

7. Semiconductors and doping 

8. Excitons

9. Quantum wells

10. Phonons 

11. Electrooptic effects, quantum confined Stark effect

 

Required Textbooks

Optical Properties of Solids  (2005), by Mark Fox

Elementary Solid State Physics  (1993), by M. A. Omar

 

Prerequisites

ECEN 3400 or equivalent, Quantum Mechanics