Some Web sites of interest and relevance to Physics 731
General:
Extensive set of solid-state problems (without solutions)
Highlights from Simulations for Solid State Physics
Web site with lecture notes from course at Virginia Tech
Periodic table, with extensive information about each element
Lattice Structures:
Pictures of common crystal lattices
Crystal-drawing program (partially operational)
Crystal systems, in the context of minerals
AT&T Labs catalog of lattices, extensive and often technical
Quasitiler 3.0, for constructing quasicrystals in 2-D, with good references
Research at Iowa State on quasicrystal surfaces, with references
Manual for BALSAC, software for visualizing various surface structures; available (see instructor)
Manual for ARTbuild, an interactive program for creation of atomic structures; available (see instructor)
Cambridge Structural Database If you use this and find it helpful, please provide feedback to instructor!
Authoritative information on nomenclature for crystal families and Bravais-lattice types
Reciprocal Lattices:
IUCr "pamphlet" on reciprocal lattices
Brief summary of crystal systems and Miller indices
Tutorial on X-ray diffraction from Lawrence-Livermore Nat'l Lab
Adjustable 2D lattice with 2-atom basis, and its reciprocal (inc. intensity variations)
Detailed description of Ewald construction
Ewald construction (simple) and rotating crystal method
Ewald construction for a surface or 2D lattice
Extensive tutorial, with java applets, on structure factor, Miller indices, etc.
Materials structure (inc. quasicrystal) java applets by S. Weber
Description of XrayView, software package tutorial about x-ray diffraction, for use with Silicon Graphics computers
Collection of sites related to neutron scattering
M. Van Hove's LEED [theory] site
Lecture notes on LEED by Maryland graduate Prof. Tim Ohno
Real-space Structural Probes
:Grant Bunker's tutorial documents on X-ray absorption fine-structure techniques
Beautiful STM images courtesy of IBM
Chemical aspects, bonds
Overview of bonding (from chemistry perspective), inc. hybridization
"Structures of simple inorganic solids" (S.J. Heyes, Oxford U., Inorganic Chem.)
Structure, bonds, forces, useful tables (B.S. Mitchell, Tulane U.)
Lecture notes on hybridization from undergrad chemistry course
Collection of internet resources about chemistry
Lattice Vibrations
:Phonon dispersion for 1D diatomic chain
Phonon dispersion and display of TA and TO modes in 1D
Phonon dispersion in 1D and some 3D (mostly in French)
Phonon dispersion of diamond and of graphite
Phonon density of states via "debye"
Mathematica notebook on Debye and Einstein models (PHYS 603, Prof. J. Kelly)
Intrinsic local modes (in anharmonic lattice)
Slide show tutorial on Raman spectroscopy
Short description of Raman spectroscopy
Somewhat more detailed description of Raman spectroscopy
Note on Mössbauer spectroscopy
Conductivity
Thermal conductivity by particles (nice applet)
Fancier continuum applet, for various materials (Note run caution)
Free Electrons
Mathematica notebook on statistical mechanics of ideal Fermi systems (PHYS 603, Prof. J. Kelly)
Electronic band structure:
Fancy java applet for venerable Kronig-Penney model (but may require downloading peripheral software; posted by Kevin Schmidt of Arizona State Univ.)
Nice site on periodic potentials, with java applet for venerable Kronig-Penney model (This site is in Spanish, but the physics is readily understandable. Or you can translate it using Babel Fish.)
Electrons in 2D hexagonal TB lattice: energy contours and DOS
Density of states in free-electron and tight-binding models
Electrons in external fields:
Semiconductors: