Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids

This book provides an introduction to band theory and the electronic properties of materials at a level suitable for final-year undergraduates or first-year graduate students. It sets out to provide the vocabulary and quantum-mechanical training necessary to understand the electronic, optical and structural properties of the materials met in science and technology and describes some of the experimental techniques which are used to study band structure today. In order to leave space for recent developments, the Drude model and the introduction of quantum statistics are treated synoptically. However, Bloch's theorem and two tractable limits, a very weak periodic potential and the tight-binding model, are developed rigorously and in three dimensions. Having introduced the ideas of bands, effective masses and holes, semiconductor and metals are treated in some detail, along with the newer ideas of artificial structures such as super-lattices and quantum wells, layered organic substances and oxides. Some recent 'hot topics' in research are covered, e.g. the fractional Quantum Hall Effect and nano-devices, which can be understood using the techniques developed in the book. In illustrating examples of e.g. the de Haas-van Alphen effect, the book focuses on recent experimental data, showing that the field is a vibrant and exciting one. References to many recent review articles are provided, so that the student can conduct research into a chosen topic at a deeper level. Several appendices treating topics such as phonons and crystal structure make the book self-contained introduction to the fundamentals of band theory and electronic properties in condensed matter physic today.

ISBN 0198506449   Pages 240 ISBN13 9780198506447 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 532 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series title Oxford Master Series in Condensed Matter Physics Publication date 30 Aug 2001   Height (mm) 245 Library of Congress 2001032856   Width (mm) 189 DEWEY 530.41015122   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Metals: the Drude and Sommerfeld models		1
2		The Quantum mechanics of particles in a periodic potential: Bloch's theorem		16
3		The nearly-free electron model		23
4		The tight-binding model		32
5		Some general points about bandstructure		41
6		Semiconductors and Insulators		49
7		Bandstructure engineering		65
8		Measurement of bandstructure		85
9		Transport of heat and electricity in metals and semiconductors		117
10		Magnetoresistance in three-dimensional systems		133
11		Magnetoresistance in two-dimensional systems and the quantum Hall effect		143
12		Inhomogeneous and hot carrier distributions in semiconductors		154
A		Useful terminology in condensed matter physics		165
B		Derivation of density of states in k-space		172
C		Derivation of distribution functions		175
D		Phonons		181
E		The Bohr model of hydrogen		191
F		Experimental considerations in measuring resistivity and Hall effect		194
G		Canonical momentum		200
H		Superconductivity		201
		I: List of selected symbols		205
		J: Solutions and additional hints for selected exercises		209
		Index		217

Excellent as an easily navigable reference text; a sort of skeletal Kittell, but with more contemporary illustrative material ... first-time lecture course writers could find it an excellent way of orientating themselves in the subject ... likely to endure as a useful reference source for researchers for some years. Contemporary Physics

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