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By completing the BSC Lab in [[Resource(5065)]], you will be able to:

a) understand the concept of carriers dispersion in a solid,

b) understand the concept of effective masses and energy gaps, and

c) understand the bandstructure in low-dimensional systems.


The specific objectives of the BSC Lab are:

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== Recommended Reading ==

If you have not had experience with the concept of bandstructure and ways of calculating the bandstructure, here is a list of resources that will help you have the required knowledge to get the most of these issues resolved: 

1. Walter Harrison, Elementary Electronic Structure, World Scientific.

2. Peter Y. Yu and Manuel Cardona, Fundamentals of Semiconductors: Physics and Material Properties, Springer.

3. Dragica Vasileska, Stephen M. Goodnick and G. Klimeck: Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation, Appendix A (CRC Press, 2010).



== Demo ==

[[Resource(6935)]]
[[Resource(6815)]]



== Theoretical descriptions ==

* [[Resource(9003)]] 

* [[Resource(1506)]]

* [[Resource(4882)]]

* [[Resource(9454)]]

* [[Resource(9122)]]

* [[Resource(8999)]]



== Tool Verification ==

[[Resource(9491)]]



== Worked Examples ==

[[Resource(9491)]]



== Exercises and Homework Assignments ==

1.  [[Resource(5201)]]

2.  [[Resource(5033)]]

3.  [[Resource(4873)]]

4.  [[Resource(9233)]]

5.  [[Resource(9372)]]



== Solutions to Exercises ==

Solutions to exercises will be provided to Instructors ONLY!



== Take a Test ==

This test will assess your conceptual understanding of the physical, mathematical and computational knowledge related to formation of bandstructure in crystals, the concept of energy bands and the energy gaps.

[[Resource(9493)]]



== Solve the Challenge ==

In this final challenge you will integrate all what you have learned about bandstructure calculation in bulk and in low-dimensional systems such as nanowires.

[[Resource(4880)]]