Description: INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PHYSICS I
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Introduction to the fundamental concepts of crystalline solids, including the Drude theory of metals, crystal structures, Bloch's theorem, band structure, effective mass approximation, phonons, plasmons, excitons, and polaritons.
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Also offered as PHYS 563.
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Instructor(s): Kono Cross-list: PHYS 563.