Individual course details
Study programme General physics, Applied and Computer Physics
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Undergraduate Studies
Name of the course Solid State Physics
Professor (lectures) Jablan Dojčilović
Professor/associate (examples/practical)  
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 8 Status (required/elective) requied
Access requirements  Quantum Theory Physics and Fundaments of Statistical Physics
Aims of the course Obtaining the basic knowledge in various fields of Solid State Physics and education neceseary for the starting of the study of modern physics of condensed systems.
Learning outcomes Understanding of the phenomenons in crystalline and amorphous systems. Addoptation of the experimental techniques necessary for independent student work.
Contents of the course
Lectures Basics of crystallography. Intercellular bonds in crystals. Determinantion of the structure of solid bodies. Grid dynamics. Briluen's zone. Acoustic and optical oscillation mode. The notion of phonons, statistics and phonon features. Heat properties of solid bodies. Models of specific heat of solid bodies. Thermal expansion of solid bodies. Thermal conductivity, trophonics processes. Zomerfeld's theory. Zonal model of solid body: Schrodinger equation for a solid body, Bloch functions, The concept of energy zones, Kroning-Penigs model. Effective mass of electrons. Intrinsic and permeable conductivity of semiconductors, Fermi level, Fermi-Dirac integral. Electrical conductivity of metal. Thermoelectric and galvanomagnetic phenomena in solid bodies.
Superconductivity: Basic phenomena. Theories of classical superconductivity, BCS theory, Couper's pairs. High temperature superconductivity. Ionic conductivity of condensed systems. Solid electrolytes. Dielectrics: Classification of dielectrics. Mechanisms of elastic and thermal polarization. The relationship between permeability and polarizability. Born model. Dependency on frequency permeability and temperatures.
 Dielectric losses. Nonlinear dielectrics (ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics and non-feasible ferroelectrics). Magnetic properties of solid bodies: Classification of magnetics. The nature of paramagnetism (Langevin's theory, Curie's law), Van Fleck's paramagnetism. Ferromagnetism (molecular field theory, Einstein-de-Has experiment, Curie-Weiss law). Exchange interactions, spin waves. Antifero-magnetism and ferrimagnetism, ferromagnetic domains. Magnetic Resonance (EPR, NMR).
Examples/ practical classes  
Recommended books
1 1. J. Dojcilovic, Физика чврстог стања, Faculty of Physics, 2007,
2 2. Н. Ашкрофт, Н.Мермин, Физика твердого тела, "Мир", Москва, 1979. 
3 3. С.Царић, Физика чврстог стања: Експерименталне вежбе, Научна књига, 1990
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Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
4 3      
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Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 5 written examination  
practicals 30 oral examination 45
papers      
presentations 20