8.231 Physics of Solids I
Fall 2012
image restricted to class participants
Left to right: 1) Growth spirals on a graphite single crystal (by John A. Jaszczak). 2) Pure gold truncated octahedrons single crystals (from Flickr, by fluor_doublet). 3) Intel 32 nm PMOS transistor. 4) STM image of high-Tc superconductor BiSrCaCuO (Seamus Davis group, Cornell). 5) Fluorescence from semiconductor quantum dots of varying size - visualizing quantum confinement.
Instructor: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
TAs: Valla Fatemi, Qiong Ma, Fahad Mahmood
Lecture:
MW 10-11.30 AM
(1-150)
Recitation: F 10-11 AM
(1-150)
Information:
Announcements
Bethe-Mermin interview and Happy Holidays
I hope you all had a good end of the term. As a Holidays reading present, I have posted (in Lecture Notes) a conversation-interview between Hans Bethe and David Mermin, about the beginnings of solid state physics. I found it very enjoyable. I hope you too.
Happy Holidays and New Year!
Pablo
Announced on 22 December 2012 6:56 a.m. by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Reminder, exam is in 26-314
Announced on 17 December 2012 1:13 p.m. by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Last Call course evaluations, make sure you get some sleep & good luck tomorrow!
Hi all,Please remember to fill the course evaluation forms! I hope
it'll help us a lot to improve the course.
I've had quite a few email exchanges with several of you.
I'll be checking email frequently today and will be able to
reply to questions.
Remember to take some sleep to stay fresh and sharp this week! Good
luck with all finals.
Best,
Pablo
Announced on 16 December 2012 12:40 p.m. by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Course evaluation & good luck!
Hi all,Please remember to fill the curse evaluation form! I believe you have until Monday morning. Please remember that the most important thing is to include a few detailed comments on how to improve the course.
I hope you all can find a moment to complete the form.
Thank you and good luck with Finals!
Pablo
Announced on 14 December 2012 10:10 p.m. by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Practice Exams Solutions Posted
Hi all,I just posted the solutions to the two practice exams. Please only use them after you've tried to solve the problems yourselves.
Cheers,
Pablo
Announced on 14 December 2012 10:07 p.m. by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
