Unit 6: Practicum (Not for final examination)

Demonstration of monoatomic and diatomic lattice vibrations - Demonstration of Powder X-Ray

diffraction pattern - Determination of Hall coefficient, Hall voltage, type of carrier, mobility of charge
carriers and carrier concentration.

Books for Study

1. C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, 8th Ed. (Wiley, New York, 2012).
2. S. O. Pillai, Solid State Physics, 7th Ed. (New Age International, New Delhi, 2014).

Reference:
1. M. Ali Omar, Elementary Solid State Physics - Principles and Applications (Addison-Wesley,
London, 1974).
2. N. W. Ashcrof and N. D. Mermin (Solid State Physics, Harcourt College Publishers, Philadelphia,
1976).
3. J. S. Blakemore, Solid State Physics, 2nd Ed. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London,
1985).
4. J. Dekker, Solid State Physics (Macmillan India, 2000).
5. T. P. Sheahen, Introduction to High-Temperature Superconductors (Plenum press, New York,
1994).
6. J. R. Christman, Fundamentals of Solid State Physics (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1988).
7. J. P. Srivastava, Elements of Solid State Physics (Prentice-Hall of India, 2006)
8. http://nptel.ac.in/courses/115105099/
9. http://nptel.ac.in/courses/115106061/

Outcome:
a. Understood the crystal structure, thermal properties and magnetic properties of materials.
b. Gained the knowledge of Lattice dynamics .
c. Understood the Debye’s theory of lattice heat capacity
d. Understood the theory of metals and Fermi surface studies.
e. Learnt the magnetic structure properties (ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism, anti-
ferromagnetism), via mean-field and spin-wave formalism.
f. Understood magnetic phase transitions
g. Learnt various phenomena of superconductivity
h. Gained the knowledge related to super conductivity, such as the Meissner effect, flux
quantisation, Giaever- and Josephson tunneling.