Physics 617, Physics of the Solid State
Joseph Ross, Texas A&M University
Spring 2023
General course information:
The Course Syllabus can be found here. The textbooks for the
course are:
Quantum Theory of Materials,
Kaxiras and Joannopoulos,
Cambridge, 2019.
Solid-state physics: an introduction to principles of materials science,
Ibach and Lüth,
4th ed., 2009.
Also here is a bibliography of additional references
on the course material.
Other information:
Contact info: Best is to email me at .
A few useful links:
The Fermi Surface
database
has a comlete listing for the elements.
Atypical Superconductors,
describes a variety of interesting systems (and also look at the other pages at superconductors.org).
Crystal Lattice Structures page: originally at Naval Research Labs, now
hosted
here, and see
here.
PhysicsWeb.
The Amercan Physical Society
homepage.
Rossgroup research home page.
TAMU Physics & Astronomy home-page.
Texas A&M University.
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