Courses

Academic Course Notes:
 

• Course notes created by Dr. Leeor Kronik.

1. Bravais Lattice, Wigner-Seitz primitive cell, and lattice dynamics

2. Phonons, k-space, 1st - Brillouin zone

3. Bloch electrons, Nearly free electron model (NFE), Effective mass

4. Band gap origins, on electrons and holes, Effective mass, Tight-binding model (TB)

5. State density distribution, Botzmann's equation, relaxation time approximation, motion of electrons under EM fields

6. Shockley-Read-Hall statistics, recombination, continuity equation

View solutions to Homework Page No. 5
The home exam will be distributed on Feb. 14th 2002 from 08.00 - 17.00 in Room 227, EE Building.
The exams are to be returned to the same room NO LATER THAN 17.00 on Feb. 18th, 2002.