Chemical Bonding in Solids / 1: |
The Periodic Table of the Elements / 1.1: |
Covalent Bonding / 1.2: |
Ionic Bonding / 1.3: |
Metallic Bonding / 1.4: |
The Hydrogen Bond / 1.5: |
The van der Waals Bond / 1.6: |
Problems |
Structure of Solid Matter / 2: |
The Crystal Lattice / 2.1: |
Point Symmetry / 2.2: |
The 32 Crystal Classes (Point Groups) / 2.3: |
The Significance of Symmetry / 2.4: |
Simple Crystal Structures / 2.5: |
Phase Diagrams of Alloys / 2.6: |
Defects in Solids / 2.7: |
Diffraction from Periodic Structures / 3: |
General Theory of Diffraction / 3.1: |
Periodic Structures and the Reciprocal Lattice / 3.2: |
The Scattering Conditions for Periodic Structures / 3.3: |
The Bragg Interpretation of the Laue Condition / 3.4: |
Brillouin Zones / 3.5: |
The Structure Factor / 3.6: |
Methods of Structure Analysis / 3.7: |
Diffraction Experiments with Various Particles / Panel I: |
X-Ray Interferometry and X-Ray Topography / Panel II: |
Dynamics of Atoms in Crystals / 4: |
The Potential / 4.1: |
The Equation of Motion / 4.2: |
The Diatomic Linear Chain / 4.3: |
Scattering from Time-Varying Structures-Phonon Spectroscopy / 4.4: |
Elastic Properties of Crystals / 4.5: |
Raman Spectroscopy / Panel III: |
Thermal Properties / 5: |
The Density, of States / 5.1: |
The Thermal Energy of a Harmonic Oscillator / 5.2: |
The Specific Heat Capacity / 5.3: |
Effects Due to Anhaimoniclty / 5.4: |
Thermal Expansion / 5.5: |
Heat Conduction by Phonons / 5.6: |
Experiments at Low Temperatures / Panel IV: |
"Free" Electrons in Solids / 6: |
The Free-Electron Gas in an Infinite Square-Well Potential / 6.1: |
The Fermi Gas at T = 0K / 6.2: |
Fermi Statistics / 6.3: |
The Specific Heat Capacity of Electrons in Metals / 6.4: |
Electrostatic Screening in a Fermi Gas-The Mott Transition / 6.5: |
Thermionic Emission of Electrons from Metals / 6.6: |
The Electronic Bandstructure of Solids / 7: |
General Symmetry Properties / 7.1: |
The Nearly Free-Electron Approximation / 7.2: |
The Tight-Binding Approximation / 7.3: |
Examples of Bandstructures / 7.4: |
The Density of States / 7.5: |
Density of States in Non-Crystalline Solids / 7.6: |
Photoemission Spectroscopy / Panel V: |
Magnetism / 8: |
Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism / 8.1: |
The Exchange Interaction / 8.2: |
Exchange Interaction Between Free Electrons / 8.3: |
The Band Model of Ferromagnetism / 8.4: |
The Temperature Behavior of a Ferromagnet in the Band Model / 8.5: |
Ferromagnetic Coupling for Localized Electrons / 8.6: |
Spin Waves / 8.8: |
Crystalline Anisotropy / 8.9: |
Magnetostatic Spin Waves / Panel VI: |
Magnetism in Thin-Film Systems and GMR-Effeet / Panel VII: |
Motion of Electrons and Transport Phenomena / 9: |
Motion of Electrons in Bands and the Effective Mass / 9.1: |
Currents in Bands and Holes / 9.2: |
Scattering of Electrons in Bands / 9.3: |
The Boltzmann Equation and Relaxation Time / 9.4: |
The Electrical Conductivity of Metals / 9.5: |
Thermo electric Effects / 9.6: |
The Wiedemann-Franz Law / 9.7: |
Electrical Conductivity of Localized Electrons / 9.8: |
Quantum Transport in Nanostructures / 9.9: |
Quantum Oscillations and the Topology of Fermi Surfaces / Panel VIII: |
Superconductivity / 10: |
Some Fundamental Phenomena Associated with Superconductivity / 10.1: |
Phenomenological Description by Means of the London Equations / 10.2: |
Instability of the "Fermi Sea" and Cooper Pairs / 10.3: |
The BCS Ground State / 10.4: |
The Excitation Spectrum of a Superconductor / 10.5: |
Consequences of the BCS Theory and Comparison with Experimental Results / 10.6: |
Supercurrents and Critical Currents / 10.7: |
Coherence of the BCS Ground State and the Meissner-Ochsenfeld Effect / 10.8: |
Quantization of Magnetic Flux / 10.9: |
Type II Superconductors / 10.10: |
"High-Temperature" Superconductors / 10.11: |
One-Electron Tunneling in Superconductor Junctions / Panel IX: |
Cooper-Pair Tunneling - The Josephson Effect / Panel X: |
Dielectric Properties of Materials / 11: |
The Dielectric Function / 11.1: |
Absorption of Electromagnetic Radiation / 11.2: |
The Dielectric Function for a Harmonic Oscillator / 11.3: |
Longitudinal and Transverse Normal Modes / 11.4: |
Surface Waves on a Dielectric / 11.5: |
Reflectivity of a Dielectric Half-Space / 11.6: |
The Local Field / 11.7: |
The Polarization Catastrophe and Ferroelectrics / 11.8: |
The Free-Electron Gas / 11.9: |
Interband Transitions / 11.10: |
Excitons / 11.11: |
Dielectric Energy Losses of Electrons / 11.12: |
Novel Optical Materials / Panel XI: |
Infrared Spectroscopy / Panel XII: |
The Frustrated Total Reflection Method / Panel XIII: |
Semiconductors / 12: |
Data of a Number of Important Semiconductors / 12.1: |
Charge Carrier Density in Intrinsic Semiconductors / 12.2: |
Doping of Semiconductors / 12.3: |
Carrier Densities in Doped Semiconductors / 12.4: |
Conductivity of Semiconductors / 12.5: |
The p-n Junction and the Metal/Semiconductor Schottky Contact / 12.6: |
Semiconductor Heterostructures and Superlattices / 12.7: |
Important Semiconductor Devices / 12.8: |
The Hall Effect / Panel XIV: |
Cyclotron Resonance in Semiconductors / Panel XV: |
Shubnikov-de Haas Oscillations and Quantum Hall Effect / Panel XVI: |
Semiconductor Epitaxy / Panel XVII: |
Preparation of Nanostructures / Panel XVIII: |
References |
Index |
Chemical Bonding in Solids / 1: |
The Periodic Table of the Elements / 1.1: |
Covalent Bonding / 1.2: |
Ionic Bonding / 1.3: |
Metallic Bonding / 1.4: |
The Hydrogen Bond / 1.5: |