Lecture course: Solid State Physics

    PD Dr. Wolfgang Häusler       Office: EN-B 023

Time:   Mo, Th 10:00 - 12:00          Tel. 3802

Exercises:   Mo 14:00 - 17:00

Beginning: Mo, April, 19th, 2004

Room: EN-D 307

Preliminary table of contents:

· Solids in physics and applications

· Periodic structures, symmetries, crystal lattices

· Scattering methods

· Lattice vibrations, sound waves

· Electrons in periodic potentials

· Semiconductors, electronic devices

· Electron-electron interaction

· Magnetism

· Electronic and optic nanostructures

· Manipulations of electron spins in solids

· Superconductivity

Introductory Literature:


Solid state physics
by Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Saunders College (1988)


Introduction to solid state physics
by Charles Kittel
Wiley, New York (1996)


Solid state physics
by Harald Ibach and Hans Lüth
Springer, Heidelberg (1995)


Solid State Physics
by Gerald Burns
Academic Press, Boston (1990)