SUNY-Geneseo/Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 386: Solid State Physics

2014 was the International Year of Crystallography

Course Information:

 
Dr. Mclean's home page
Syllabus
Required Course Materials  

Course Web Links:

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Enrolled students can access the full course site in Canvas Cool crystal structure website
(available thanks to the wayback machine)

Here is an image showing the band structure at a diode junction.

About the Background:

The Brillouin Zones of a square net, out to 7th zone.  Open circles are reciprocal lattice vectors which have been bisected to get the red lines.