Course content

Electrodynamics, metals, superconductivity, semiconductors, dielectric and magnetic properties, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, dia- and paramagnetism, ferro- and antiferromagnetism, magnetic resonance, reduced dimensionality, structure and scattering, crystals, liquid crystals, disordered materials, defects, phase transitions, critical phenomena, mean field theory, linear response theory, fields and susceptibilities, microscopic dynamics.

Learning outcome

The students shall learn about the physical properties of solid state physics related to experiments.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and written problems. The course includes a compulsory project (counts 25%) needed for admission to the final exam (counts 75%). The course will be given in English if students on the international master program in Physics are attending the course. A re-sit examination may be changed from written to oral.

Recommended previous knowledge

Continuation of TFY4220 Solid State Physics.

Course materials

Gert Strobl: Condensed Matter Physics, Springer Verlag 2004.
Support: Stephen Elliott: The Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Wiley, 1998, parts of the book not covered in TFY4220 Solid State Physics.

Credit reductions