Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to solid state physics / Charles Kittel.

Author

Kittel, Charles.

Publication

New York : Wiley, ©1996.

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Details

Description

xi, 673 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This edition relates significant advances in the field, presenting detailed explanations of nanostructures, superlattices, Block-Wannier levels, Zener tunnelling, light-emitting diodes, fibre optics, high temperature superconductors, microscopy and new magnetic materials.

Subject

• Solid state physics
• 33.60 condensed matter: general
• Vastestoffysica
• Condensed matter
• Nanostructures
• Crystals
• Physique de l'état solide
• Physics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Crystal Structure -- 2. Reciprocal Lattice -- 3. Crystal Binding and Elastic Constants -- 4. Phonons I. Crystal Vibrations -- 5. Phonons II. Thermal Properties -- 6. Free Electron Fermi Gas -- 7. Energy Bands -- 8. Semiconductor Crystals -- 9. Fermi Surfaces and Metals -- 10. Plasmons, Polaritons, and Polarons -- 11. Optical Processes and Excitons -- 12. Superconductivity -- 13. Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics -- 14. Diamagnetism and Paramagnetism -- 15. Ferromagnetism and Antiferromagnetism -- 16. Magnetic Resonance -- 17. Noncrystalline Solids -- 18. Point Defects -- 19. Surface and Interface Physics -- 20. Dislocations -- 21. Alloys -- App. A Temperature Dependence of the Reflection Lines -- App. B Ewald Calculation of Lattice Sums -- App. C Quantization of Elastic Waves: Phonons -- App. D Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function -- App. E Derivation of dk/dt Equation -- App. F Boltzmann Transport Equation -- App. G Vector Potential, Field Momentum, and Gauge Transformations.
• App. H Cooper Pairs -- App. I Ginsburg-Landau Equation -- App. J Electron-Phonon Collisions.

ISBN

• 0471111813
• 9780471111818
• 9971511800
• 9789971511807

LCCN

95018445

OCLC

• ocm32468930
• 32468930
• SCSB-2056589

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library