In this session we’ll look at certain macroscopic properties of solids that result from the quantum mechanical behaviour of electrons. This field of physics initially concerned just the behaviour of solids so was referred to as solid state physics. It has been called condensed matter physics since the late 1960s, when it was realised that the type of collective behaviour extended beyond that of electrons in solids to many other systems such as, for example, superfluids.

Last modified

• 10/19/2024

Contributors

• Atarah, Samuel

Contributor type

• creator

Subject

• Band theory
• UKOER
• SFSOER
• Nanoparticles
• Semiconductors
• Superfluids

Publisher

• The University of Hull

Identifier

• hull:2538

Related item publisher

• The University of Hull

Resource type general

• Learning materials