Solid State Physics: Interactive Learning

We are in the process of creating ways to learn about various concepts in solid state physics. We intend to use the platform-independent opportunities offered by the WEB (including JAVA, VRML etc.). In principle these applets will work on any computer with an appropriately configured WWW browser. In practice the output may look slightly different on different computers and the programs will run at vastly different speeds depending on your computing power. Nevertheless, we certainly hope that you do not have to be a computer expert to use these pages. Please let us know if you experience difficulties.

The simulations were tested on Netscape 3.0 Gold. Important! Your browser must support Java and/or VRML.

Phonon dispersion curve. JAVA

Two dimensional lattice and its reciprocal lattice. JAVA

Energy contours and density of states for electrons in a 2-d lattice. JAVA

Clusters of cubic structure. VRML 1

Simulation of a 3-d crystal. An attempt to combine VRML 2.0 and JAVA You must have Netscape Gold and CosmoPlayer (a VRML 2.0 plug-in) installed. This is a very slow page, it takes of the order of 5 minutes to completely download and your computer might look as if it has crashed.

Landau Levels. JAVA

Last updated 4/11/98 by Günter Graf. This page has been created by Carlos Rivera. It is maintained by C.R. and Laszlo Mihaly.