Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids [Illustrated] 0198506449, 9780198506447
This latest text in the new Oxford Master Series in Physics provides a much need introduction to band theory and the ele
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Table of contents :
Title Page
Preface
Table of Contents
1 Metals: the Drude and Sommerfeld models
2 The quantum mechanics of particles in a periodic potential:Bloch's theorem
3 The nearly-free electron model
4 The tight-binding model
5 Some general points about bandstructure
6 Semiconductors and Insulators
7 Bandstructure engineering
8 Measurement of bandstructure
9 Transport of heat and electricity in metals and semiconductors
10 Magnetoresistance in three-dimensional systems
11 Magnetoresistance in two-dimensional systems and the quantum Hall effect
12 Inhomogeneous and hot carrier distributions in semiconductors
Appendices
A Useful terminology in condensed matter physics
B Derivation of density of states in k-space
C Derivation of distribution functions
D Phonons
E The Bohr model of hydrogen
F Experimental considerations in measuring resistivity and Halleffect
G Canonical momentum
H Superconductivity
I List of selected symbols
J Solutions and additional hints for selected exercises
Index
Fundamental constants and Energy equivalents for photons
Unbenannt
Title Page
Preface
Table of Contents
1 Metals: the Drude and Sommerfeld models
2 The quantum mechanics of particles in a periodic potential:Bloch's theorem
3 The nearly-free electron model
4 The tight-binding model
5 Some general points about bandstructure
6 Semiconductors and Insulators
7 Bandstructure engineering
8 Measurement of bandstructure
9 Transport of heat and electricity in metals and semiconductors
10 Magnetoresistance in three-dimensional systems
11 Magnetoresistance in two-dimensional systems and the quantum Hall effect
12 Inhomogeneous and hot carrier distributions in semiconductors
Appendices
A Useful terminology in condensed matter physics
B Derivation of density of states in k-space
C Derivation of distribution functions
D Phonons
E The Bohr model of hydrogen
F Experimental considerations in measuring resistivity and Halleffect
G Canonical momentum
H Superconductivity
I List of selected symbols
J Solutions and additional hints for selected exercises
Index
Fundamental constants and Energy equivalents for photons
Unbenannt
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