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====== Useful Links ====== | ====== Useful Links ====== |
| ===== Band structure ===== |
| * [[http://fermi.la.asu.edu/schmidt/applets/kp/plugkp.html|Kronig-Penney model Applet]]. This is an alternative approach to finding molecular wave functions. It solves the Schroedinger eigenvalue equation in a periodic, square potential well system. |
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===== Crystal structure ===== | ===== Crystal structure ===== |
* [[http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/|Atomic and molecular orbitals]] from the Sheffield site. Nice pictures and animations. | * [[http://winter.group.shef.ac.uk/orbitron/|Atomic and molecular orbitals]] from the Sheffield site. Nice pictures and animations. |
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* [[http://www.bandstructure.jp/Table/simptab.html|Band structures of elements]] a periodic table that shows band structures of all the elements in their solid forms. | * [[http://www.bandstructure.jp/Table/simptab.html|Band structures of elements]] a periodic table that shows band structures of all the elements in their solid forms. |
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* Applet that demonstrates the [[http://www.applet-magic.com/brillouin.htm|construction of the first few Brillouin zones of a 2-D square lattice]]. Also discusses the Fermi surface. | |
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* Cambridge site -> [[http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/doitpoms/tlplib/brillouin_zones/zone_construction.php|Brillouin zone construction for 2-D square & hexagonal lattice lattice]]. | * Cambridge site -> [[http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/doitpoms/tlplib/brillouin_zones/zone_construction.php|Brillouin zone construction for 2-D square & hexagonal lattice lattice]]. |
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* Pictures of different [[http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html|lattice types]]; rotatable. | |
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* [[http://www.wien2k.at/|Wien 2k]] developer website. | * [[http://www.wien2k.at/|Wien 2k]] developer website. |
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* Portland State U's [[http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu/search.py/index|Crystallographic database]]. Get cif files for free! | * Portland State U's [[http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu/search.py/index|Crystallographic database]]. Get cif files for free! |
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| * Pictures of different [[http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice/index.html|lattice types]]; rotatable. FIXME - good site, but now being revamped, it seems |
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| * Applet that demonstrates the [[http://www.applet-magic.com/brillouin.htm|construction of the first few Brillouin zones of a 2-D square lattice]]. Also discusses the Fermi surface. FIXME: I'm having trouble with this site - problem? |
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===== Semiconductors ===== | ===== Semiconductors ===== |
* [[http://ab-initio.mit.edu/photons/|MIT group photonic crystal research]]. Nice pictures. | * [[http://ab-initio.mit.edu/photons/|MIT group photonic crystal research]]. Nice pictures. |
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* Principles of Semiconductors is a good web book by Bart Van Zeghbroeck of Univ. Colorado. Google his name and you'll find the link. The Wiki wouldn't let me link to it for reasons I don't understand (I get a "spam blocked" error when I try to enter the link. | * Principles of Semiconductors is a good web book by Bart Van Zeghbroeck of Univ. Colorado. Google his name and you'll find the link. The Wiki wouldn't let me link to it for reasons I don't understand (I get a "spam blocked" error when I try to enter the link). |
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* [[http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys731/einstein/Fall04/weblist.html|another list of links from a similar course]]. | * [[http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys731/einstein/Fall04/weblist.html|another list of links from a similar course]]. |
*[[http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v78/i12/p1248_s1?view=fulltext|Investigating thin film interference with a digital camera, Atkins & Elliot, Am. J. Phys. 78, 1248 (2010)]] talks about what color a film should be based on its thickness and therefore how interference affects color. | *[[http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v78/i12/p1248_s1?view=fulltext|Investigating thin film interference with a digital camera, Atkins & Elliot, Am. J. Phys. 78, 1248 (2010)]] talks about what color a film should be based on its thickness and therefore how interference affects color. |
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===== Articles ===== | |
* Roald Hoffmann, How chemistry and physics meet in the solid state, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 26 (1987) 846-878 [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/doi/10.1002/anie.198708461/abstract|Link via OSU Library]] | |
(a comprehensive look at the first part of this course from a chemist's perspective) | |
* Roald Hoffmann, A chemical and theoretical way to look at bonding on surfaces, Rev. Mod. Phys. 60 (1988) 601-628 [[http://rmp.aps.org.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/abstract/RMP/v60/i3/p601_1|Link via OSU Library]] | |
(beyond the scope of this course, but a nice extension of the above to surfaces) | |
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===== Journals ===== | ===== Journals ===== |
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===== Mathematica ===== | ===== Mathematica ===== |
Mathematica (by Wolfram) is one of several extremely useful software programs that is useful for simple visualization of functions, computer-aided algebra, and is also a vehicle for very sophisticated programming. I highly recommend you use it for classwork, for research and for fun. As an OSU student, you have access via OSU's virtual lab, called "Umbrella". [[http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~tate/COURSES/ph424/Mathematica_info.html|Here]] is a link to a page I wrote for my PH424 physics class describing how to get access, how to use Wolfram's fantastic documentation and tutorials, and I added a few simple templates. | Mathematica (by Wolfram) is one of several extremely useful software programs that is useful for simple visualization of functions, computer-aided algebra, and is also a vehicle for very sophisticated programming. I highly recommend you use it for classwork, for research and for fun. As long as you are an OSU student, you are permitted a free copy for use on your own computer. [[http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~tate/COURSES/ph424/Mathematica_info.html|Here]] is a link to a page I wrote for my PH424 physics class describing how to get access, how to use Wolfram's fantastic documentation and tutorials, and I added a few simple templates. |
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Here are some Mathematica notebooks that I wrote that are relevant to PH575. | Here are some Mathematica notebooks that I wrote that are relevant to PH575. |
* {{:ylm_visualization.nb|visualization of spherical harmonics}} | * {{:ylm_visualization.nb|visualization of spherical harmonics}} |
| * {{:ylm_sp_linear_combinations.nb|visualization of s and p orbitals}} - real combinations of spherical harmonics |
| * {{:lcaopproximationtobondingmolecularorbitalinhydrogen-mod4.nb|molecular orbitals}} - MOs of 5 atoms in a line. Use s or p, and pick mode. |
| *{{:2d_dispersion_squarelattice.nb|2D square lattice dispersion}} |
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| ===== OSU seminars ===== |
| Not part of the course, but watch these for relevant topics ... |
| * The physics [[http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/events-SSO|Solid State and Optics Seminar]] meets W 4:00 - 5:00 pm in WGR 304. |
| * The [[http://matsci.oregonstate.edu/seminars.php|Materials Science Seminar]] meets Th 3:00 - 4:00 pm in Covell 117. |
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