Solid State Physics - Paperback

by Ian Appelbaum (Author)

In these handwritten lecture notes, a variety of topics such as crystal structure, mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties of solids, band structure and group theory, the Fermi surface, and spin-orbit interaction will be treated with examples such as the electronic states in two-dimensional graphene. Although the emphasis will be on the phenomena, the methods of quantum mechanics are freely employed in this description.