Mod-03 Lec-30 Wigner Seitz Cell and Introduction to Brillouin Zones

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• Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction Physics of Materials

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• Mod-01 Lec-02 Properties of Materials

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• Mod-01 Lec-03 Thermal Expansion

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• Mod-01 Lec-04 Measuring Electrical Conductivity: DC and AC

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• Mod-01 Lec-05 Free Electron Gas

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• Mod-01 Lec-06 The Ideal Gas

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• Mod-01 Lec-07 Drude Model: Electrical Conductivity

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• Mod-01 Lec-08 Drude Model: Thermal Conductivity

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• Mod-01 Lec-09 Drude Model: Successes and Limitations

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• Mod-01 Lec-10 Drude Model: Source of Shortcomings

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• Mod-01 Lec-11 Large Systems and Statistical Mechanics

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• Mod-01 Lec-12 Maxwell Boltzmann Statistics

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• Mod-02 Lec-13 Classical Particles and Quantum Particles

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• Mod-02 Lec-14 History of Quantum Mechanics-1

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• Mod-02 Lec-15 History of Quantum Mechanics-2

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• Mod-02 Lec-16 Introduction to Drude Sommerfeld model

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• Mod-02 Lec-17 Fermi-Dirac Statistics: Part 1

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• Mod-02 Lec-18 Fermi-Dirac Statistics: Part 2

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• Mod-02 Lec-19 Features of the Fermi Dirac Distribution Function

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• Mod-02 Lec-20 Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution Vs Fermi-Dirac Distribution

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• Mod-02 Lec-21 Anisotropy and Periodic Potential in a Solid

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• Mod-02 Lec-22 Confinement and Quantization: Part 1

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• Mod-02 Lec-23 Confinement and Quantization: Part 2

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• Mod-02 Lec-24 Density of States

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• Mod-02 Lec-25 Fermi Energy, Fermi Surface, Fermi Temperature

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• Mod-02 Lec-26 Electronic Contribution to Specific Heat at Constant Volume

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• Mod-03 Lec-27 Reciprocal Space - 1:Introduction to Reciprocal Space

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• Mod-03 Lec-28 Reciprocal Space - 2: Condition for Diffraction

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• Mod-03 Lec-29 Reciprocal Space - 3: Ewald sphere, Simple Cubic, FCC and BCC in Reciprocal Space

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• Mod-03 Lec-30 Wigner Seitz Cell and Introduction to Brillouin Zones

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• Mod-03 Lec-31 Brillouin Zones, Diffraction, and Allowed Energy Levels

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• Mod-03 Lec-32 E Vs k, Brillouin Zones and the Origin of Bands

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• Mod-03 Lec-33 Calculating Allowed Energy Bands and Forbidden Band Gaps

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• Mod-03 Lec-34 Bands; Free Electron Approximation, Tight Binding Approximation

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• Mod-04 Lec-35 Semiconductors

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• Mod-04 Lec-36 Magnetic Properties

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• Mod-04 Lec-37 Compounds; Phonons, Optoelectronic Materials

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• Mod-04 Lec-38 Superconductivity

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• Mod-04 Lec-39 Bose-Einstein Statistics

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• Mod-04 Lec-40 Physics of Nano Scale Materials; Course Summary

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