EM1: Advanced Solid State Physics – Lecture contents

Lecture notes

Lecture materials are provided via moodle as interactive PDFs that will be updated every week. Two versions both with and without ("HWoff") the handwritten parts as well as a version without gridlines are available for download. 

Recommended text books

N.W. Ashcroft, N.O. Mermin: "Solid State Physics" (Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, New York)

C. Kittel: "Introduction to Solid State Physics" (Wiley & Sons, New York) or "Einführung in die Festkörperphysik" (Oldenbourg, München)

M. Fox: "Optical Properties of Solids" (Oxford University Press, Oxford)

S. Maier: "Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications" (Springer, New York), available as a PDF for LMU students: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-37825-1