i | Title of the course | MM 318?: ?Electronic Properties of Metals ? |
ii | Credit structure | L????????? T????????? P????????? C 3 ? ? ? ? ? 1 ? ? ? ? ?0? ? ? ? ? 8 ? |
iii | Pre-requisite, if any | None ? |
iv | Course content | ? Geometry of crystals. Reciprocal lattice, reflection condition and Bragg302222s law. Free electron theory of metals. Kronig-Penney model. Brillouin zones, Energy bands, energy-wavevector diagrams. Conductivity in metals and Hall effect.Semiconductors: intrinsic and extrinsic. Carrier concentration, effective mass, Fermi energy determination. Dielectric and Optical properties- polarization, types and mechanisms, macroscopic and local fields, polarizability. Dispersion and complex dielectric constant. Complex refractive index, Transmission, Reflection, Absorption and Plasma resonance. Magnetic Properties 302226 Paramagnetism, Curie-Weiss law, Pauli paramagnetism, molecular field theory, exchange interactions, ferro-, anti-ferro and ferri-magnetism. Soft and hard magnetic materials. Magnetization. Introduction to superconductivity.Geometry of crystals. Reciprocal lattice, reflection condition and Bragg302222s law. Free electron theory of metals. Kronig-Penney model. Brillouin zones, Energy bands, energy-wavevector diagrams. Conductivity in metals and Hall effect.Semiconductors: intrinsic and extrinsic. Carrier concentration, effective mass, Fermi energy determination. Dielectric and Optical properties- polarization, types and mechanisms, macroscopic and local fields, polarizability. Dispersion and complex dielectric constant. Complex refractive index, Transmission, Reflection, Absorption and Plasma resonance. Magnetic Properties 302226 Paramagnetism, Curie-Weiss law, Pauli paramagnetism, molecular field theory, exchange interactions, ferro-, anti-ferro and ferri-magnetism. Soft and hard magnetic materials. Magnetization. Introduction to superconductivity. |
v | Texts/References | M.A. Omar, Elementary Solid State Physics : Principles and Applications, Pearson Education, Delhi, 1999. A.J. Dekker, Solid State Physics, Macmillan, London, 1960.R.H. Bube, Electronic Properties of Crystalline Solids : An Introduction to Fundamentals, Academic Press, New York, 1974. R.E. Hummel, Electronic Properties of Materials, 3rd Ed., Springer, New York, 2001.L. Solymar and D. Walsh, Electrical Properties of Materials, 7th Ed., Oxford University Press, 2004. |
vi | Instructor(s) name | Prof. Sumit Saxena ? |