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Course description
Credit Points: 3.5
Prerequisities: Physics Laboratory; Physics (2); Introductions to Semiconductor-physics (concurrent)
Basic concepts: Photo-electric effect, Compton scattering, De-Broglie waves, Bohr’s hydrogen atom, Schrödinger’s equation. Probability density, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. One-dimensional problems: scattering, tunneling and bound states.
Hydrogen atom: Schrödinger’s equation for central potential. Variable separation. Angular momentum and energy quantum numbers. Spin. Energy levels. Spectroscopy. Periodic table of elements.
Electron gas model of metals. Wide potential well, Fermi-Dirac distribution, density of states, Pauli’s principle. Ground-state of Fermions’ gas. Work function, Pauli’s paramagnetism. Electrical conductivity and Drude-Lorentz formula. Superconductivity.
Electrons in periodic potential: Double, symmetric potential well. Bloch’s theorem. Kronig-Penney model. Insulator, semiconductor and metal classification.
Prerequisities: Physics Laboratory; Physics (2); Introductions to Semiconductor-physics (concurrent)
Basic concepts: Photo-electric effect, Compton scattering, De-Broglie waves, Bohr’s hydrogen atom, Schrödinger’s equation. Probability density, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. One-dimensional problems: scattering, tunneling and bound states.
Hydrogen atom: Schrödinger’s equation for central potential. Variable separation. Angular momentum and energy quantum numbers. Spin. Energy levels. Spectroscopy. Periodic table of elements.
Electron gas model of metals. Wide potential well, Fermi-Dirac distribution, density of states, Pauli’s principle. Ground-state of Fermions’ gas. Work function, Pauli’s paramagnetism. Electrical conductivity and Drude-Lorentz formula. Superconductivity.
Electrons in periodic potential: Double, symmetric potential well. Bloch’s theorem. Kronig-Penney model. Insulator, semiconductor and metal classification.