Special Topics on Solid State Physics: Advances and Applications 
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<br>Class hour: Monday 16:30-19:20
<br>Classroom: Room 618, Department of Physics, NTU
<br>Lecture: Lin, Minn-Tsong 林敏聰老師 (Physics, NTU)
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<br>Course Description:
<br>This course will focus on the important and advanced topics in “modern” Solid 
<br>State Physics. Both aspects of fundamental and application will be discussed. It 
<br>requires the background knowledge of Solid State Physics as well as modern 
<br>physics, such as crystal structure, band structure, phonon, heat capacity, 
<br>electric conductivity, Fermi energy, density of state etc.. Fundamentals of 
<br>crucial materials, such as Superconductors, Semiconductors, Magnetism, etc., which 
<br>were included in the course of “Introduction to Solid State Physics” would be 
<br>briefly highlighted at beginning of the course.  
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<br>The purpose of this course is to provide the students overview and research basis 
<br>of the “modern” Solid State States. In particular, for those, who are interested 
<br>in doing research in the fields of condensed matter physics, applied physics, 
<br>material science/physics as well as nanomaterial and nanoscience, this course 
<br>would give an intensive discussion for the most updated development of these 
<br>fields. 
<br>The major content of the course would include the following topics: 
<br>1. Superconductors 
<br>1-1 Conventional Superconductor 
<br>1-2 High Tc Superconductor 
<br>2. Magnetism & Magneto-Transport 
<br>2-1 Ferromagnetism & Antiferromagnetism 
<br>2-2 Magnetism in Low Dimensions & Nanomagnetism 
<br>2-3 Advanced Magnetoresistive Materials: Giant Magnetoresistance, Magneto Tunnel 
<br>Junction and Spin-Dependent Transport 
<br>3. Plasmons, Polariton, and Polarons 
<br>4. Optical Processes and Excitons 
<br>5. Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics 
<br>6. Quantum Hall Effect; Kondo effect; Coulomb Blockade…. 
<br>7. Physics at Surface and Interface 
<br>8. Advanced Materials: 
<br>8-1 Graphene: Physics, Synthesis, and Application 
<br>8-2 Multiferroic Materials 
<br>9. Imaging in Nanometer Scale: Advanced Techniques of Microscopies (TEM; SEM; STM) 
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<br>The students, who like to take the course, should attend the course introduction 
<br>in the first lecture.