SUNY-Geneseo/Physics & Astronomy

PHYS 386: Solid State Physics

2014 was the International Year of Crystallography

Course Information:		Dr. Mclean's home page
Syllabus	Required Course Materials
Course Web Links:
Enrolled students can access the full course site in Canvas	Cool crystal structure website (available thanks to the wayback machine)

Here is an image showing the band structure at a diode junction.

About the Background:

The Brillouin Zones of a square net, out to 7th zone.  Open circles are reciprocal lattice vectors which have been bisected to get the red lines.