PH4607(PH5041)

Solid State Physics 1

(Condensed Matter Physics 1)

Dr Vincent Casey

Course Content

Assessment

• Assessment– Continuous Assessment (30%)

• Assignments 20%• Online Tests and Quizzes (10%)

– Final Exam (70%)

• Exam Structure (2.5 Hours)– Section A Short Questions (40 Marks)

• Attempt 5 from 6• 8 Marks per question

– Section B Three Part (a,b,c) Topic Questions (60 Marks)• Attempt 3 from 4• 20 Marks per question

• Materials Allowed– Standard Log Tables– UL Approved Scientific Calculators

General Information

• Delivery– Lectures (Timetabled)

– Tutorials (Start Week 2)

• Web Support:– My Web Site (Under Construction!!!!)

– Home/Teaching/PH4607• https://vincentcasey.ie/

– SULIS• https://sulis.ul.ie/

Contact Details

• Office C0-059

• Email: vincent.casey@ul.ie

• Tel: 061-202257

• Open Door: 8-9am Tue & Wed

Text Books

• Recommended Text:– Introductory Solid State Physics

• H. P. Myers, 2nd Ed, Taylor & Francis

• Recommended Reading:– The Oxford Solid State Basics, Steven H. Simon, Oxford University

Press, 2013– Introduction to Solid State Physics

• Aschroft and Merin, Solid State Physics• Charles Kittel, 8th Ed, Wiley

– Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1964• Vol 2, Ch 31 and 38• http://www.feynmanlectures.info/• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics

– Semiconductor Devices, Physics & Technology• S. M. Sze, Wiley

The Cat’s Whisker and VacuumValves

http://www.electronics-radio.com/articles/electronic_components/valves-tubes/what-is-a-tube-basics-tutorial.php

Cryptography: Enigma

• Alan Turing

– “On Computable Numbers…

• Universal Turing Machine

Collossus

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

On Computible Numbers

Point Contact TransistorGe

1947 1954

1958

10 nm and beyond!

Graphene Battery

The Future

• States of Mind

• Self Assembly

• Self Replication

• Quantum Computing/Encription