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Fyzika pevných látek

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-2246/01
Abbreviation FPL
Course title Fyzika pevných látek
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
Course coordinator Ing. Tibor Fördös, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Crystal structure of solids - mathematical description, symmetry operations, Miller indices, Bragg and Laue theories, Brillouin zones and reciprocal space
2. Bonding in solids - attractive and repulsive forces, ionic, covalent and metallic crystals, hydrogen and van der Waals bonding
3. Mechanical properties - elastic and plastic deformation and their microscopic and macroscopic description, point disturbances and dislocations
4. Thermal properties - lattice vibrations and their description, harmonic oscillator, quantum oscillations and phonons, Einstein and Debye theories, thermal expansion and conduction, diffusion, Fick's laws
5. Electrical properties of metals - Drude model, electrical conductivity of metals, Hall effect, optical reflectivity, Wiedeman-Franz law, quantum aspects of electrical properties of metals, energy bands
6. Semiconductors - intrinsic semiconductors, density of states, types of doping and conductivity, semiconductor devices, PN transitions, transistors and optoelectronic devices
7. Magnetism in solids - macroscopic and quantum mechanical description, paramagnetism, diamagnetism, atomic and electron contribution, Curie and Pauli paramagnetism, magnetic ordering and exchange interaction, ferromagnetic domains, hysteresis and saturation.
8. Dielectrics - macroscopic and microscopic description, frequency dependence of dielectric constant and its modelling, ferroelectric and piezoelectric phenomena.
9. Superconductivity - zero resistance phenomenon, Meissner effect, phenomenological and microscopic theory of superconductors, classes

Literature

P. Hofmann, Solid State Physics: An Introduction, 2nd ed., Wiley-VCH, 2015
Ch. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, John Wiley & Sons, 8th ed.,
2018
M. A. Wahab, Solid state physics: Structure and properties of materials, Narosa, 3rd ed., 2015.
S. H. Simon, The Oxford Solid State Basics, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013

Advised literature

S. H. Simon, The Oxford Solid State Basics, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013.
H. Ibach and H. Luth, Solid-State Physics: An Introduction to Priciples and
Material Sciences, Springer, 4th ed., 2009.
C. Cohen-Tannoudji, B. Diu, F. Laloe, Quantum Mechanics, Wiley, 1991.
H. Ibach and H. Luth, Solid-State Physics: An Introduction to Priciples and
Material Sciences, Springer, 4th ed., 2009.
N. W. Ashroft and N. David Mermin, Solid State Physis, Harout: Orlando,1976.
J. F. Nee, Physical properties of crystals, Oxford Clarendon Press 1992.