WelcomeOn this pageWelcomeThese notes are work in progress, still far from completion. Table of contents What is Condensed Matter Physics? Quantum Mechanics QM Introduction Molecular Orbital Crystal structure Single Crystal Bravais Lattice Reciprocal lattice and Brillouin zone Miller indices and Bragg's diffraction Crystal growth Various crystal growth methods Why single crystal Flux method Bridgman method Czochralski method Characterization Material characterization EDAX Powder XRD Laue Diffraction Electronic structure Band Theory of Solids Bloch theorem Tight binding Crystal electric filed Hubbard Model Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy ARPES Introduction Three-step model ARPES setup Spin-ARPES setup s- and p-polarization light References License