PEM5118 - Introduction to Solid-State Physics
Form professor
Prof. Dr. Antonio Jefferson da Silva Machado
Workload
| Theoretical |
Practical |
Study |
Duration |
Total |
Credits |
| 4 hours/week |
0 hours/week |
8 hours/week |
15 weeks |
180 hours |
12 |
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Concentration area
97135 - Magnetism and Superconductivity
Objectives
Provide to the students of the electrical materials, magnetic and superconducting area, the basic scientific foundation for Condensed Matter Physics such as many different electronic characteristics of the solids. These scientific foundation are extremely necessary for students understand magnetic, electrics, mechanics and optical properties of the materials in general.
Motivation
This course is necessary due to the great demand of students from engineering courses that do not have the basic scientific foundation of quantum mechanics.
Syllabus
- Chemical bond
- Crystallographic structure
- Reciprocal space
- Band energy on the crystals
- Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distribution
- Specific Heat
- Electrical conduction mechanisms in metals, insulators and semiconductors
- Phonons and other excitations.
Evaluation criteria
Two tests with average equal (P1 + P2)/2. The students with average lower than 5.0 will be considered reproved.
References
- Kittel, C. – Introdução à física do estado sólido. 5rd Ed. Guanabara Dois, 1976
- Rezende, S. M. – A Física de Materiais e Dispositivos Eletrônicos. Editora Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife 1996
- Holden, A. – The Nature of Solids. Dover Publications – New York, 1992
- Neil W. Ashcroft e N. David Mermim – Física do Estado Sólido. Cengage Learning, 2011.