Useful Links

Atomic and molecular orbitals from the Sheffield site. Nice pictures and animations.

You can view and rotate cubic lattices at this site.

Band structures of elements a periodic table that shows band structures of all the elements in their solid forms.

Applet that demonstrates the construction of the first few Brillouin zones of a 2-D square lattice. Also discusses the Fermi surface.

Cambridge site → Brillouin zone construction for 2-D square & hexagonal lattice lattice.

Pictures of different lattice types; rotatable.

Wien 2k developer website.

Bilbao crystal server. Find space groups and reciprocal lattices.

Portland State U's Crystallographic database. Get cif files for free!

Nice compilation of semiconductor properties from the Ioffe Institute in Russia

Java applet with interactive features demonstrating acoustic and optic phonon modes of diatomic chain.

Dispersion relations and animations of phonon modes in several different crystals. Also surface phonons.

Webelements is a great periodic table with easy-to-access properties, electron configurations, group and period trends, etc.

Lots of materials data at MatWeb

Data base of Fermi surfacepictures

Solid state simulations. Drude model is nice.

MIT group photonic crystal research. Nice pictures.

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.

another list of links from a similar course.

The Physics and Chemistry of Color: the 15 Causes of Color by Kurt Nassau (Wiley-Interscience, 2001) is a fascinating book that talks about why things are the colors they are. In the library, & you can browse bits of it on Amazon.com

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.

Roald Hoffmann, How chemistry and physics meet in the solid state, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 26 (1987) 846-878

Roald Hoffmann, A chemical and theoretical way to look at bonding on surfaces,Rev. Mod. Phys.60 (1988) 601-628 Link via OSU Library

Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics is a new addition to the “Annual Review” Series of journals (also Mat. Sci , Chemistry etc). A good place to find summaries of quickly-developing fields by very respected authors.

Nature Materials is a monthly journal devoted to the latest-breaking news on new materials.

Nanoletters is a monthly journal specifically addressing physics and chemistry, of nanomaterials and nanodevices.