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Date
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Day
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Topic
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Reading
(To be completed
BEFORE class)
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Due Dates
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1
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2
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Monatomic chain
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3
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4
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5
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Diatomic chain (continued)
Evanescent waves
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Hwk
1 - soln
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6
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7
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Specific heat of a 1-D chain
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8
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Specific heat of a solid
(Debye model)
Single attractive square well
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9
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Periodic square well potentials
Allowed and forbidden energies (energy bands)
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Notes
9
Liboff 8.2
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10
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Calculate dispersion relation for electrons
(energy bands)
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Hwk2
- Soln
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11
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Bloch’s Theorem
Bloch oscillations
Electrical resistance
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12
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Effective mass
Semiconductor statistics
Intrinsic semiconductors
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Notes
12
Liboff 12.9
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13
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Extrinsic semiconductors
n- and p-type material
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Notes
13
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14
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15
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Hwk3
soln
Paper due 1:00 P.M.
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Monday
April 20
Wngr 304
19:30-21:20
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