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====== Useful Links ====== | ====== Useful Links ====== |
===== Band structure ===== | ===== Band structure ===== |
| * [[http://www.wien2k.at/|Wien 2k]] developer website. |
| * [[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://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. | * [[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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* You can view and rotate [[http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/Mview/Cubic.htm|cubic lattices]] at this site. | * You can view and rotate [[http://www.ibiblio.org/e-notes/Mview/Cubic.htm|cubic lattices]] at this site. |
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| * A nice site with [[http://www.princeton.edu/~cavalab/tutorials/public/structures/index.html|structure information]] for the perovskite, pyrochlore, rutile & spinel structures <-- NEW |
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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. | * A succinct [[http://epswww.unm.edu/xrd/xrdclass/04-Crystalography-for-XRD.pdf|introduction to crystallography]] by J.R. Connolly for people with little background in crystallography. |
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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. | |
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* [[http://www.cryst.ehu.es/|Bilbao crystal server]]. Find space groups and reciprocal lattices. | * [[http://www.cryst.ehu.es/|Bilbao crystal server]]. Find space groups and reciprocal lattices. |
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| * [[http://database.iem.ac.ru/mincryst/index.php|Crystallographic and Crystallochemical Database for Minerals and their Structural Analogues]]. Maintained by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Space groups, Wyckoff positions, diffraction info for minerals. Searchable periodic table. |
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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 ===== |
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* Nice compilation of [[http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/SVA/NSM/|semiconductor properties from the Ioffe Institute]] in Russia | * Nice compilation of [[http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/SVA/NSM/|semiconductor properties from the Ioffe Institute]] in Russia |
| * For II-VI (and other) semiconductors, see the page by [[http://www.semiconductors.co.uk|D. W. Palmer]] |
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===== Phonons ===== | ===== Phonons ===== |
*[[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) | |
* {{:hartmann04.pdf|Bloch oscillations-Hartman}} - general discussion | |
* {{:bloch_oscillations_atoms_in_optical_potential.pdf|Bloch oscillations-optical analogue}} | |
* {{:0268-1242_13_3_003.pdf|Bloch oscillations-superlattice}} | |
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===== Journals ===== | ===== Journals ===== |
* [[http://pubs.acs.org.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/journal/nalefd|Nanoletters]] is a monthly journal specifically addressing physics and chemistry, of nanomaterials and nanodevices. | * [[http://pubs.acs.org.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/journal/nalefd|Nanoletters]] is a monthly journal specifically addressing physics and chemistry, of nanomaterials and nanodevices. |
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* [[http://prola.aps.org.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/|Physical Review Online]]. Phys. Rev. Lett. usually features articles on hot, new materials, but materials is by no means its focus. Phys. Rev. B is devoted to solid state physics. | * [[http://prola.aps.org.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/|Physical Review Online]]. Of the Phys. Rev. journals, [[http://journals.aps.org/prb/|Phys. Rev. B ]]is devoted to solid state physics. [[http://journals.aps.org/prapplied/|Physical Review Applied]] is a new (2014) Phys. Rev. journal covering materials science, surface and interface physics, device physics, condensed matter physics and optics, nanoscience and nanotechnology. |
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===== Mathematica ===== | ===== Mathematica ===== |
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) | * {{:ylm_sp_linear_combinations.nb|visualization of s and p orbitals}} - real combinations of spherical harmonics |
| * {{:lcaoapproximationtobondingmolecularorbitalinhydrogen-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 Weniger 149 (S14 focus is on computational nuclear materials). |
| * The [[http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/events-colloquia|physics colloquium]] meets M 4:00 - 5:00 pm in WGR 116. |
| * [[http://chemistry.oregonstate.edu|Chemistry seminars]] are sometimes relevant (times vary). |
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