PHY6380   Solid State Physics   (10 credits)

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This is the solid-state physics module for students on the Physics MRes programmes. It covers the classification of solids into the three types - metals, semiconductors and insulators, the free electron model, the origin of electronic band structure, the fundamental properties of conductors and semiconductors, carrier statistics, experimental techniques used to study carriers in a solid, the classification and physics of the principal types of magnetism.

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