Optical Spectroscopy of Solids
Prof. Markus Grüninger
General information
| People | Prof. Markus Grüninger (grueninger -at- ph2.uni-koeln.de) |
| Time & Place | October 11, 2019 - January 31, 2020 Friday 10.00–11.30 Konferenzraum Theorie |
| Aims of the course | Understanding of the basic concepts and techniques of optical spectroscopy on solid-state samples. Topics covered are e.g. the dielectric function, Drude-Lorentz model, Kramers-Kronig relations and sum rules, measurements in time domain and frequency domain, THz spectroscopy, Fourier-transform spectroscopy, ellipsometry, and examples of current research, e.g. on topological insulators. |
Lecture notes
User name and password will be given in the lecture or upon reasonable request via email.
1. Introduction
3. Lecture October 18: Waves in matter, part 2 (void)
4. Lecture October 25: Waves in matter, part 3 (void)
Chapter 2: Waves in matter and at interfaces
5. Lecture November 8: Drude-Lorentz model, part 1 (void) and Drude-Lorentz model, part 1
6. Lecture November 15: Drude-Loentz model, part 2 (void)
7. Lecture November 22: Kramers-Kronig relations (void)
8. Lecture November29: THz time domain spectroscopy (void)
9. Lecture December 6: Fourier spectroscopy (void)
10. Lecture December 20: Ellipsometry (void)
11. Lecture January 10: Topological insulators, part 1 (void)
12. Lecture January 17: Topological insulators, part 2 (void)
13. Lecture January 24: Topological insulators, part 3 (void)
14. Lecture January 31: Topological insulators, part 4 (void)