INTRODUCTION TO SOLID STATE PROPERTIES

The course is part of the Master in Chemistry and Sustainable Technologies, curriculum in Science and Technology of Bio and Nanomaterials and runs in the second semester of the second year. The course aims at giving students the first rudiments of solid state, from chemical bonds, to crystalline structure, to motion of atoms and electrons in solids, and related electronic, optical and thermal properties.

At the end of the course, the students have learned the fundamental principles of solid state, related to the atomic and electronic structure in crystals.
The students will be able to correlate physical and chemical phenomena typical of the solid state with mathematical models describing them.
The students will be able to predict behavior of different types of materials from different points of view (thermal, electronic, optical) depending on their electronic and crystalline structure.

Prerequisite to attend the course successfully is the basic knowledge of mathematics, general physics, and general chemistry.

Chemical bonds
Crystalline structure and elements of crystallography
X-ray diffraction
Dynamics of crystals: sound waves, vibrations of crystal lattice in 1 and 3 dimensions, phonons, heat capacity, thermal conductivity
Free electrons in metals, transport properties of conduction electrons
Electronic band structure
Semiconductors

JR Hook, HE Hall, Solid State Physics
H Ibach, H Lüth, Solid-State Physics (An Introduction to Theory and Experiment)

The students will undergo oral examination at the end of the course, through which the knowledge of the students will be tested.

The course will include classes and description of selected examples, whose principles were described during the classes.

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Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments:
Ca’ Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support
services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). In the case of disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

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