This text focuses on the electronic structure and properties of solids. It covers covalent semiconductors, ionic insulators, simple metals and transition-metal and f-shell-metal systems. The main focus of the text is on the most important aspects of each system, making what approximations are necessary in order to proceed analytically and obtain formulae for the properties. In spite of the diversity of systems and materials, the approach to electronic structure is systematic and coherent, combining the tight-binding (or atomic) picture with the pseudopotential (or free-electron) picture. This provides the parameters and conceptual bases for estimating the various properties of all of these systems. The book is written as a textbook, with problems at the end of each chapter.
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Walter A Harrison is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He received a Bachelor of Engineering Physics degree at Cornell University in 1953, and a PhD degree in 1956 under Frederick Seitz at the University of Illinois. After nine years as a physicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory, he moved to Stanford in 1965. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in 1970–71. He received the Senior Scientist von Humboldt Award in 1982, and carried out research at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart. Professor Harrison is Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Utah and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of three widely used texts and some 200 technical papers.
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This is written by a longstanding expert in the field of solid state physics/condensed matter. The treatment is quite solid. He covers the differences between ionic and covalent bonded structures, using a depth of physics accessible to those at a junior undergraduate level or higher.The differences between insulators and semiconductors are explained in terms of simple band structure, without drowning the reader in equations. The visual picture of band structure that the reader can derive from the text is straightforward and should greatly aid understanding.
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homopolar case, nonbonding bands, lattice wavenumber, average hybrid energy, metallization energy, covalent energy, central hydrides, static effective charge, atomic term values, lithium chain, homopolar semiconductors, overlap repulsion, wavenumber lattice, observed bulk modulus, homopolar systems, transverse charge, internal displacement parameter, full band calculations, dangling hybrid, interatomic matrix elements, pseudopotential core radius, resonant bonding, two coupled states, divalent compounds, misfit energy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brillouin Zone, Bond-Orbital Approximation, Schroedinger Equation, Unrestricted Hartree-Fock, Solid-State Table, Atomic Surface Method, Golden Rule, Theory Experiment, Atomic-Surface Method, Theory Expt, Jones Zone, Predicted Observed New!
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homopolar case, nonbonding bands, lattice wavenumber, average hybrid energy, metallization energy, covalent energy, central hydrides, static effective charge, atomic term values, lithium chain, homopolar semiconductors, overlap repulsion, wavenumber lattice, observed bulk modulus, homopolar systems, transverse charge, internal displacement parameter, full band calculations, dangling hybrid, interatomic matrix elements, pseudopotential core radius, resonant bonding, two coupled states, divalent compounds, misfit energy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brillouin Zone, Bond-Orbital Approximation, Schroedinger Equation, Unrestricted Hartree-Fock, Solid-State Table, Atomic Surface Method, Golden Rule, Theory Experiment, Atomic-Surface Method, Theory Expt, Jones Zone, Predicted Observed New!
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- Electronic Structure: Basic Theory and Practical Methods (Vol 1) by Richard M. Martin on page 293, and Back Matter
- Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor by Supriyo Datta in Back Matter
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