Solid-State Physics

An Introduction to Principles of Materials Science

By: Hans Luth, Harald Ibach

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Paperback | 11 November 2009 | Edition Number 4

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This new edition of the well-received introduction to solid-state physics provides a comprehensive overview of the basic theoretical and experimental concepts of materials science. Experimental aspects and laboratory details are highlighted in separate panels that enrich text and emphasize recent developments.

Notably, new material in the fourth edition includes sections on important devices, aspects of non-periodic structures of matter, phase transitions, defects, superconductors and nanostructures. Especially the chapters on super- and on semiconductivity had been completly updated, inlcuding new developments and new figures.

Students will benefit significantly from solving the exercises given at the end of each chapter. This book is intended for university students in physics, materials science and electrical engineering. This edition has been thoroughly updated to maintain its usefulness as modern text and reference.

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"... An excellent mix of concepts, theoretical arguments, and discussion of modern experiments - all at an introductory level ... Full of illustrations, photographs, schematic diagrams of experimental techniques, and graphs of results..." - American Journal of Physics

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Chemical Bonding in Solids	p. 1
The Periodic Table of the Elements	p. 1
Covalent Bonding	p. 4
Ionic Bonding	p. 9
Metallic Bonding	p. 13
The Hydrogen Bond	p. 15
The van der Waals Bond	p. 15
Problems	p. 16
Structure of Solid Matter	p. 21
The Crystal Lattice	p. 22
Point Symmetry	p. 25
The 32 Crystal Classes (Point Groups)	p. 27
The Significance of Symmetry	p. 28
Simple Crystal Structures	p. 31
Phase Diagrams of Alloys	p. 36
Defects in Solids	p. 45
Problems	p. 48
Diffraction from Periodic Structures	p. 51
General Theory of Diffraction	p. 51
Periodic Structures and the Reciprocal Lattice	p. 57
The Scattering Conditions for Periodic Structures	p. 58
The Bragg Interpretation of the Laue Condition	p. 60
Brillouin Zones	p. 63
The Structure Factor	p. 64
Methods of Structure Analysis	p. 67
Problems	p. 70
Diffraction Experiments with Various Particles	p. 72
X-Ray Interferometry and X-Ray Topography	p. 78
Dynamics of Atoms in Crystals	p. 83
The Potential	p. 84
The Equation of Motion	p. 85
The Diatomic Linear Chain	p. 86
Scattering from Time-Varying Structures-Phonon Spectroscopy	p. 91
Elastic Properties of Crystals	p. 94
Problems	p. 104
Raman Spectroscopy	p. 107
Thermal Properties	p. 113
The Density, of States	p. 113
The Thermal Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator	p. 116
The Specific Heat Capacity	p. 118
Effects Due to Anhaimoniclty	p. 120
Thermal Expansion	p. 121
Heat Conduction by Phonons	p. 124
Problems	p. 129
Experiments at Low Temperatures	p. 131
"Free" Electrons in Solids	p. 135
The Free-Electron Gas in an Infinite Square-Well Potential	p. 136
The Fermi Gas at T = 0K	p. 140
Fermi Statistics	p. 142
The Specific Heat Capacity of Electrons in Metals	p. 145
Electrostatic Screening in a Fermi Gas-The Mott Transition	p. 150
Thermionic Emission of Electrons from Metals	p. 152
Problems	p. 156
The Electronic Bandstructure of Solids	p. 159
General Symmetry Properties	p. 159
The Nearly Free-Electron Approximation	p. 163
The Tight-Binding Approximation	p. 167
Examples of Bandstructures	p. 173
The Density of States	p. 177
Density of States in Non-Crystalline Solids	p. 179
Problems	p. 182
Photoemission Spectroscopy	p. 184
Magnetism	p. 191
Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism	p. 191
The Exchange Interaction	p. 196
Exchange Interaction Between Free Electrons	p. 199
The Band Model of Ferromagnetism	p. 201
The Temperature Behavior of a Ferromagnet in the Band Model	p. 205
Ferromagnetic Coupling for Localized Electrons	p. 209
Spin Waves	p. 215
Crystalline Anisotropy	p. 219
Problems	p. 225
Magnetostatic Spin Waves	p. 227
Magnetism in Thin-Film Systems and GMR-Effeet	p. 233
Motion of Electrons and Transport Phenomena	p. 241
Motion of Electrons in Bands and the Effective Mass	p. 241
Currents in Bands and Holes	p. 245
Scattering of Electrons in Bands	p. 247
The Boltzmann Equation and Relaxation Time	p. 251
The Electrical Conductivity of Metals	p. 255
Thermo electric Effects	p. 261
The Wiedemann-Franz Law	p. 264
Electrical Conductivity of Localized Electrons	p. 266
Quantum Transport in Nanostructures	p. 268
Problems	p. 282
Quantum Oscillations and the Topology of Fermi Surfaces	p. 285
Superconductivity	p. 291
Some Fundamental Phenomena Associated with Superconductivity	p. 291
Phenomenological Description by Means of the London Equations	p. 296
Instability of the "Fermi Sea" and Cooper Pairs	p. 299
The BCS Ground State	p. 304
The Excitation Spectrum of a Superconductor	p. 312
Consequences of the BCS Theory and Comparison with Experimental Results	p. 317
Supercurrents and Critical Currents	p. 321
Coherence of the BCS Ground State and the Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect	p. 324
Quantization of Magnetic Flux	p. 329
Type II Superconductors	p. 333
"High-Temperature" Superconductors	p. 340
Problems	p. 349
One-Electron Tunneling in Superconductor Junctions	p. 352
Cooper-Pair Tunneling - The Josephson Effect	p. 362
Dielectric Properties of Materials	p. 371
The Dielectric Function	p. 371
Absorption of Electromagnetic Radiation	p. 374
The Dielectric Function for a Harmonic Oscillator	p. 377
Longitudinal and Transverse Normal Modes	p. 379
Surface Waves on a Dielectric	p. 382
Reflectivity of a Dielectric Half-Space	p. 384
The Local Field	p. 385
The Polarization Catastrophe and Ferroelectrics	p. 387
The Free-Electron Gas	p. 389
Interband Transitions	p. 391
Excitons	p. 398
Dielectric Energy Losses of Electrons	p. 400
Problems	p. 403
Novel Optical Materials	p. 407
Infrared Spectroscopy	p. 414
The Frustrated Total Reflection Method	p. 417
Semiconductors	p. 419
Data of a Number of Important Semiconductors	p. 420
Charge Carrier Density in Intrinsic Semiconductors	p. 424
Doping of Semiconductors	p. 428
Carrier Densities in Doped Semiconductors	p. 432
Conductivity of Semiconductors	p. 437
The p-n Junction and the Metal/Semiconductor Schottky Contact	p. 443
Semiconductor Heterostructures and Superlattices	p. 459
Important Semiconductor Devices	p. 472
Problems	p. 486
The Hall Effect	p. 489
Cyclotron Resonance in Semiconductors	p. 492
Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillations and Quantum Hall Effect	p. 495
Semiconductor Epitaxy	p. 504
Preparation of Nanostructures	p. 510
References	p. 517
Index	p. 527
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