Lecture Summaries (choose a format; PDF files are smaller, Word or PDF files have the nicest formatting):

Monday	Wednesday	Friday
9-3-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Lattice + basis = crystal, lattice translation vectors, 2D lattices	9-5-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word unit cells, Bravais lattices, close-packed structures, diamond structure Handouts: Bravais lattices	9-7-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Miller indices, Bragg diffraction, plane waves in 3D
9-10-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Recap of Fourier Analysis	9-12-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word 3D Fourier analysis, the reciprocal lattice	9-14-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word More on reciprocal lattice
9-17-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word von Laue & Brillouin diffraction, Brillouin zones	9-19-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Quantitative drawings of Bragg, von Laue, & Brillouin diffraction, Reciprocal space factoids	9-21-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Powder diffraction
9-24-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Phonon dispersion relation, phonon wavevectors	9-26-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word More on phonon wavevectors, phonon momentum, optical phonons	9-28-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Phonon energy, phonon heat capacity, conductivity basics
10-1-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Drude model, Fermi energy	10-3-07 Guest lecture on emulsions and surface tension	10-5-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Hall effect, LCAO
10-8-07 Exam Review Session	10-10-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Analogy between molecular orbitals and normal modes, bands in the tight binding model	10-12-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word sp and sp3 hybrid orbitals
10-22-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word sp2 hybrid orbitals, electronic properties of diamond and graphite, the Bloch theorem	10-24-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Meaning of the Bloch k, tight binding wavefunction, meaningful range of the Bloch k	10-26-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Expectation values, greater overlap gives lower energy, Huckel approximation
10-29-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word The Fermi surface	10-31-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Sommerfeld free electron model, Fermi sphere	11-2-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Fermi velocity, Density of States, Fermi-Dirac Statistics
11-5-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Using the DOS, electrochemical potential	11-7-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Contact potential, Kelvin probe, Alternate statement of Bloch theorem	11-9-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Bloch wavevectors can always be translated back into the 1BZ, empty lattice model, extended and reduced zone schemes
11-12-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Repeated zone scheme, number of states per BZ, band diagrams in the empty lattice model	11-14-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Band diagrams in the empty lattice model (ctd.), interpretation of band diagrams I	11-16-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Interpretation of band diagrams II, nearly free electron model
11-19-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Band overlap and Fermi surface in the nearly free electron model	11-21-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Metals and semiconductors in the nearly free electron model, Semiclassical Model of Electron Dynamics, effective mass, narrow vs. wide bands Handout: Band diagrams and absorption spectra for Cu and Si	Thanksgiving!
11-26-07 Exam review session	11-28-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Filled bands are inert, holes	11-30-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Carrier density for semiconductors
12-3-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word The truth about m*, Hydrogenic model for dopants	12-5-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Energy of dopant levels, effect of doping on Fermi level	12-7-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Law of mass action, photoexcitation
12-10-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word PN junctions	12-12-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word Diodes, LEDs, solar cells	12-14-07 Web page .. PDF .. Word MOSFETs, Schottky diodes, ohmic contacts