Materials Physics
- Introduction: The uncertainties of classical physics and the emergence of quantum physics
- Blackbody radiation and Plancks theory
- Photoelectric effect, wave-particle property, De Broglie wavelength, diffraction, Compton effect
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle, tunneling, energy bands
- Bandgap energy, Fermi energy, bond models in metals, insulators and semiconductors
- Intrinsic semiconductor, n and p type doping, mobility
- p-n junction, diode
- Transistors, MOSFET
- Ionic conductivity, conductivity of polymers, dielectric behavior, piezoelectricity
- Interaction of light with atom and electron, refraction, reflection
- Absorption mechanisms, absorption in visible and ultraviolet range, luminescence
- Quantum confinement, semiconductor quantum dots, exciton, LED
- Laser, optical fiber, solar cell
- Induction, permeability, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, ferromagnetism
- Magnetic fields and hysteresis
- Anisotropy, soft and hard magnetic materials, magnetic storage, superconductivity