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Course: Introduction to solid state physics
Department/Abbreviation: SLO/UFPL
Year: 2021
Guarantee: 'doc. Mgr. Jan Soubusta, Ph.D.'
Annotation: Introduction to structure of solids.
Course review:
- Historical development of the knowledge about the matter structure, Bohr's atomic model
- Crystals, periodic arrangement of atoms, crystal symmetry, crystal lattice, group of the symmetry operations
- Crystallography, typical crystal structures, metals, salt, semiconductors
- Primitive and elemental unit cell, Miller indices of important directions and planes in the crystal structure
- Mathematical description of symmetry operations, proper and improper rotations. Implementation of the translation symmetry operation and its consequences
- Calculations of typical geometric parameters of the crystal lattice
- Experimental diffraction methods for revealing structure of crystals, Bragg's diffraction law
- Description of diffraction using spatial frequencies, introduction of a reciprocal space and reciprocal elementary cells
- Relationship between the crystalline structure of the sample and the measured diffraction pattern
- Outline of the effect of the periodic arrangement of crystals on their physical and chemical properties