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.(ATM image)



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