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Electrons and Phonons
| This course provides an important part of a framework for advanced studies in materials science and nanotechnology. It begins with a brief study of lattices, introduces the concepts of phonons to describe the dynamic lattice and moves on to a quantum mechanical study of the properties of electrons in solids. Some of the strange properties of quantum mechanical electrons are then easily understood in terms of the band structure of the solid. A description of both electrons and phonons as quantised quasi-particles lays the foundations for an understanding of electrical and thermal conductivity, and is at the basis of semiconductor physics, superconductivity etc. |
