| 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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