March

March

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Lecture 14

Bravais lattices, crystal structures
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Lecture 15

reciprocal lattice, X-ray scattering
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Spring Break
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Lecture 16

preview of electrons in a crystal, X-ray scattering from Bravais lattice with a basis

HW2 due
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Lecture 17

electrons in a crystal - qualitative arguments
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Lecture 18

electrons in a crystal - rigorous arguments, Bloch's theorem, zone schemes for band structure, velocity
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Lecture 19

van Hove singularities, weak potential approximation and energy gap, eigenstates and velocity at a Bragg plane
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