MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.730 Physics for Solid-State Applications Spring, 2002 GENERAL INFORMATION  

Lecturer	Terry P. Orlando	Rm. 13-3006	x3-5888	orlando@mit.edu
		Home Phone	Before 9:00 pm	617-22(5-9195)
Lecturer	Rajeev J. Ram	Rm. 36-487	x3-4182	rajeev@mit.edu
Secretary	Scott Burris	Rm. 13-3010	x8-0629	dsburris@mit.edu

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CLASSES:

Monday, Wednesday, 1-2:30 pm, and Friday 1-3:00 pm all in Room 36-155

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Required Text :

Fundamentals of Carrier Transport, Second Edition, by Mark Lundstrom, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Notes will be handed out to cover the first two-thirds of the class. This required text be used for the last third of the class. It can be purchased from Quantum Books .

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Suggested Text :

Solid State Physics , N.W. Aschroft and M.D. Mermin, Saunders College Publishing, 1976.

This text is not required, but if you wish to purchase a textbook that covers some of the material in the first two-thirds of the class I would suggest this text because it is the one used in 6.732. It can be purchased from Quantum Books .

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NOTES:

Notes will be handed out periodically. These notes will cover the material for about the first two-thirds of the class.

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Problem Sets:

All homework sets are due at the beginining of class on the assigned due date. You may work together on the problem sets but you are required to write up your own solution and code.

Students will make oral presentations on the homework.

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Project:

A three part group assignment will cover the (1) physical structure, (2) the phonon spectra, and the (3) band structure of a semiconductor.

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FINAL :

There will be a final examination for the class.

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GRADES:

40% Group Project (30% written report and 10% presentation)

40% Problem Sets (25% written report and 15% presentation)

20% Final Examination

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