MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.730 Physics for Solid-State Applications
Spring, 2004
GENERAL INFORMATION
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CLASSES:
Monday, Wednesday, 1-2:30 pm, and Friday 1-3:00 pm all in
Room 26-314
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 .
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 .
NOTES:
Notes will be handed out periodically. These notes
will cover the material for about the first two-thirds of the class.
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.
Project:
A three part group assignment
will cover the (1) physical structure, (2) the phonon spectra, and the (3)
band structure of a semiconductor.
FINAL : The final examination for the class during Final
Exam Week, May 17-21, 2004.
GRADES: 40% Group Project (30% written report and 10%
presentation)
40% Problem Sets (30% written report and 10% presentation)
20% Final Examination