STRUCTURE OF MATTER
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: G. G. N. ANGILELLA
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/03 - Physics of matter
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: FIS/03 - Physics of matter
Taught classes: 48 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Detailed Course Content
Crystal structure. X-ray scattering and other structural experimental techniques. Complex systems: liquids, superlattices, quasicrystals. Electronic structure. Bloch theorem. Quasi-free electrons and tightly bound electrons. Fermi surface. Density of states. Van Hove singularities (Electronic Topological Transitions). Tight-binding model. Effective mass. Phonons. Specific heats. High-Tc superconductors. Graphene.