MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.730 Physics for Solid-State Applications
Spring, 1998
GENERAL INFORMATION
 
Lecturer Terry P. Orlando Rm. 13-3006 x3-5888 orlando@mit.edu
Home Phone Before 9:00 pm 781-334-4758
T.A. Lin Tian Rm. 13-3026 x3-0393 tianl@mit.edu
Secretary Olga Arnold Rm. 13-3058 x3-3282 galina@mit.edu

CLASSES:
Monday, Wednesday, 1-2:30 pm, and Friday 1-3:00 pm all in Room 36-155
TEXT:
Solid State Physics , N.W. Aschroft and M.D. Mermin, Saunders College Publishing, 1976.
(This text is optional but is the one used in 6.732).

NOTES:
Notes will be handed out periodically.

HOMEWORKS:
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.

QUIZZES:
Two quizzes. Quiz dates: Monday, March 16, 1998 and Friday, May 8, 1998.

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

GRADES:
About 1/3 homework, 1/3 quizzes, and 1/3 from the project.

RELATED WEBSITES:
Suggested References for 6.730
AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER/DATE
Ashcroft, N. W., Mermin, N.D. Solid State Physics Holt, Rinehart & Wilson*
McKevlvey, J. P. Solid State and Semicondcutor Physics R. E. Krieger (1984 reprint)
Kittel, C. Introduction to Solid State Physics John Wiley & Sons 7th ed.
Datta, S. Quantum Phenomena Addison-Wesley (1989)
Burns, G. Solid State Physics Academic Press, Inc. (1985)
Ziman, J. M. Principles of the Theory of Solids Cambridge University Press (1972)
Kroemer, H. Quantum Mechanics Prentice-Hall (1994)
Lai, W. M., David, R. Introduction to Continuum Mechanics Pergamon Press (1993)
Crandall, S. H., Karnopp, D. C. Dynamics of Mechanical and Electromechanical Systems Krieger (1982)
Madelung, O. Semicondcutors: Group IV Elements and III-V Compounds Springer-Verlag (1991)
Harrison, W. A. Electronic Structure & Properties of Solids W. H. Freeman (1980)
Sietz, F., Turnbull, D. Solid State Physics, Vol. 2 Academic Press (1956)
Singh, J. Physics of Semiconductors and their Heterostructures McGraw-Hill (1993)
ALL THESE BOOKS ARE ON RESERVE IN BARKER LIBRARY
 
 
 

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