COURSE
TEXTS
- Required: Electrical Properties of Materials (6th edition),
L.
Solymar and D. Walsh, Oxford Science Publications 1998
(paperback!)
- Recommended: Introduction to Solid State Physics (nth edition),
C.
Kittel, Wiley Interscience (1999) (n=7). Good resource, many
tables, but short on pedagogy.
- On reserve, ascending difficulty: Introductory Solid
State
Physics, H.P. Meyers, Taylor and Francis (1990); Solid State
Physics, H. Ibach and H. Luth, Springer Verlag, 2nd edition
(1995); Solid State Physics, N. Ashcroft and R. Mermin,
Harcourt-Brace (1975).
- Topic-focused resources (not on reserve, but worth checking out):
statistical mechanics: Thermal Physics, C. Kittel and Kroemer;
tight-binding theory: Electronic structure and the properties of
solids, W.A. Harrison; semiconductors: Physics of semiconductor
devices, S.M. Sze; magnetics: Modern magnetic materials,
R.C.
O'Handley.
FURTHER STUDY
MSAE 6081x,y, Solid State Physics A,B} (Prof. Stormer, Prof. Pinczuk)
AP4100x, Quantum Physics of Matter (Prof. Herman)
Physics G8066, Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (Prof. Millis)
emphasizing strongly correlated systems and other exotica.
Some overlap, but repeated exposure is helpful.
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