Solid-state physics

Solid state physics is a branch of condensed matter physics. It deals with the study of solids, i.e. rigid matter including crystals (ordered solids) and glasses (disordered solids).

Topics

• Amorphous solid
• Crystal structure
  • defects
  • quasicrystal
  • X-ray crystallography
• Electronic structure
  • bandgap
  • Bloch waves (electron waves in a lattice)
  • conduction band
  • effective mass
  • electron hole
  • electron gas
  • exciton
  • valence band
• Electronic transport
  • Bloch oscillations
  • Drude model
  • electrical conduction
  • Hall effect
  • magnetoresistance
• Mechanical properties
  • Debye model of specific heat
  • elasticity
  • Mossbauer effect
  • phonons (lattice vibrations)
• Optical properties
  • crystal optics

• Online textbook: Introduction to Modern Solid State Physics by Yuri M. Galperin.