Lecture notes and homeworks

• Introduction
• X-ray diffraction (XRD) and reciprocal lattice
• Linear elasticity
• Quantization of phonons
• Thermodynamics of phonons
• Neutron scattering
• Bloch theorem and band theory
• Kronig-Penney model and tight-binding model
• Symmetry and group representation
• Electron dynamics in crystals
• Electron dynamics under a magnetic field
• Transport phenomena
• Boltzmann equation
• Linear response theory
• Optical properties of metals and plasmon
• Optical properties of semiconductors, exciton
• Optical properties of insulators, polaron and polariton