3.50
Credit Points
3.00
Lecture Hours
1.00
TA Hours
0.00
Lab Hours

Summary

Semiconductors:
Energy bands, effective mass, cyclrotron resonance, intrinsic and extrinisic semiconductors, calculating chemical potential, p-n junction, Thomas Fermi screening, Biased p-n junction .
Magnetic materials:
Magnetic Hamiltonian, perturbation theory, Hund's Rules, Curie's Law, Pauli paramagnetism, exchange interaction, superexchange, Curie-Weiss law, spin waves.
Superconductivity:
Meisner effect, London Equation, Ginzburg Landau theory, critical current, upper critical field, introduction to BCS formalism

Syllabus

  • Semiconductors:
    Energy bands, effective mass, cyclrotron resonance, intrinsic and extrinisic semiconductors, calculating chemical potential, p-n junction, Thomas Fermi screening, Biased p-n junction .
  • Magnetic materials:
    Magnetic Hamiltonian, perturbation theory, Hund's Rules, Curie's Law, Pauli paramagnetism, exchange interaction, superexchange, Curie-Weiss law, spin waves.
  • Superconductivity:
    Meisner effect, London Equation, Ginzburg Landau theory, critical current, upper critical field, introduction to BCS formalism.

Bibliography

Ashcroft and Mermin, Solid State Physics.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Superconductivity of metals and alloys.
Michael Tinkham, Introduction to superconductivity
3.50
נקודות זכות
3.00
שעות הרצאה
1.00
שעות תרגול
0.00
שעות מעבדה

תקציר

אין

סילבוס

  • Semiconductors:
    Energy bands, effective mass, cyclrotron resonance, intrinsic and extrinisic semiconductors, calculating chemical potential, p-n junction, Thomas Fermi screening, Biased p-n junction .
  • Magnetic materials:
    Magnetic Hamiltonian, perturbation theory, Hund's Rules, Curie's Law, Pauli paramagnetism, exchange interaction, superexchange, Curie-Weiss law, spin waves.
  • Superconductivity:
    Meisner effect, London Equation, Ginzburg Landau theory, critical current, upper critical field, introduction to BCS formalism.

ביבליוגרפיה

Ashcroft and Mermin, Solid State Physics.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Superconductivity of metals and alloys.
Michael Tinkham, Introduction to superconductivity
Last changed April 25, 2022 by Bar Lev, Yevgeny (ybarlev)