Week 1: Introduction to Drudes free electron theory of metals, electrical conductivity Ohms lawand Hall effect
Week 2: Introduction to Sommerfeld's model
Week 3: Specific heat of an electron gas and the behaviour of thermal conductivity of a solid and relationship with electrical conductivity
Week 4: Periodic Arrays of Atoms, Fundamental Types of Lattices, Index System for Crystal Planes
Week 5: Direct Imaging of Atomic Structure, Diffraction of Waves by Crystals, Reciprocal lattice, Brillouin Zones
Week 6: Vibrations of Crystals with Monatomic Basis, Acoustic and Optical modes
Week 7: Two Atoms per Primitive Basis, Quantization of Elastic Waves, Phonon Momentum
Week 8: Phonon contribution to heat capacity, Einstein and Debye theory of specific heat
Week 9: Bloch Functions, Nearly Free Electron Model, Kronig-Penney Model
Week 10: Wave Equation of Electron in a Periodic Potential,Band Gap
Week 11: Equations of Motion, effective mass, concept of a hole, Intrinsic Carrier Concentration, Impurity Conductivity
Week 12: Superconductivity
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