| Free electron model; Heat capacity; Transport properties; Hall Effect; Elementary concepts of quantum Hall effect | 6 |
| Structure and Scattering; Crystalline solids, liquids and liquid crystals; Nanostructures; Bucky balls | 6 |
| Electrons in a periodic potential; Bloch's theorem; Nearly free electron Model; Tight-binding model; semiclassical dynamics; Motion of an electron in a dc electric field; Effective mass, holes | 8 |
| Crystal binding; Types of solids; vander-waals solids,Ionic covalent solids, Metals | 2 |
| Lattice vibrations; Adiabatic & harmonic approximations, Vibrations of mono and diatomic lattices, Lattice Heat Capacity, Einstein and Debye models | 4 |
| Semiconductors; Intrinsic & extrinsic semiconductors, Laws of mass action, Electron & hole mobilities. Impurity levels, p-n junctions | 3 |
| Superconductivity; Experimental Survey, Meissner effect, London's equation, BCS theory, Ginzberg Landau theory, Flux quantization | 4 |
| Magnetism; Exchange interaction, Diamagnetism, paramagnetism, ferro- Magnetism & antiferromagnetism, Hund's rules, Pauli paramagnetism, Heisenberg model, Mean field theory, Spin waves, Giant and colossal magneto resistance | 7 |