| Date | Lectures | Assignments | |||||
| 09/24 | Review of semiconductor physics. (notes) | HW 1 | PRL1980 | PRL1985 | PRL1988 | PRL1991 | |
| 09/26 | Review of semiconductor physics (ctd). | ||||||
| 09/29 | Low-dimensional semiconductors: quantum wells, wires, dots. (notes) | ||||||
| 10/01 | Transport in electric fields. Quantized conductance.Coulomb blockade.Single electron transistor. (supplement) | ||||||
| 10/03 | Transport in magnetic fields. Quantum Hall effect: integer, fractional.Aharonov-Bohm effect. (notes) (supplement) | Fractional Charge Nature 1997 | |||||
| 10/06 | Interband transitions: direct bandgap. (notes) | GaAs absorption (Phys Rev 1962) | |||||
| 10/08 | Interband transitions: indirect bandgap. | Ge absorption (Phys Rev 1955) | |||||
| 10/10 | Luminescence. Excitons. (notes) | Nature 2006 | |||||
| 10/13 | Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. Optoelectronic applications. (notes)(supplement) | ||||||
| 10/15 | Basic concepts of optical response. (notes)(supplement) | ||||||
| 10/17 | Metals: optical properties. Surface plasmon polariton. | HW 2 | Dielectric permittivity (for HW 2) | PRL2000 | Science2003 | Science2004 | Nature2003 |