Rahim Faez
Associate Professor
faez@sharif.edu
rfaez@yahoo.com
+98-21-66164350
103 West-Ground Floor
Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Azadi Ave., Tehran, Iran.
Office Hours:
Sunday & Tuesday Morning 8-12
Main References:
1- C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. 2005.
2- N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Harcourt College Publishers 1976.
3- Philip Philips, Advanced Solid State Physics, Cambridge University Press 2012.
Supplementary References:
1- G. Grosso and G. PASTORIPARRAVICINI, Solid State Physics, Academic Press 2014.
Course Syllabus:
1- Crystal Structure and Reciprocal Lattice
2- Chemical Bindings
3- Phonons
4- Free Fermi Electron Gas
5- Non-Interacting Electrons in a Periodic Potential and Band Structure
6- Tightly Bound Electrons
7- Electron-Electron Interactions
8- Density Functional Theory
9- Brief Discussion on Realistic Calculations in Crystalline Solids
10- Some of Excitation Particles (Beyond Phonons): Plasmons, Polaritons, Polarons and Excitons
11- Electron-Boson Interactions
