This document provides an overview of topics to be covered in a physics tutorial on optical properties of metals and semiconductors. It includes 6 problems related to reflectivity of materials, transmittance of gold films, the Hall coefficient of mercury, modeling electron behavior in silver, absorption by quantum dots under laser illumination, and estimating absorption cross sections of nanowires and quantum dots. Students are instructed to be prepared to discuss these problems in a tutorial session on November 24, 2020.

Phys 511-Physics at Nanoscale - Part I - Semester III Tutorial Sheet 4: Optical Properties of Metals and Semiconductors 19 November 2020 PDF

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