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Chapter I SYSTEMS OF ATOMS
1.1. The Adiabatic Approximation
Example 1.1. The molecular harmonic vibration
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1.2. The Covalent Bond
Example 1.2. The molecular bond
Example 1.3. The molecular orbital method
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1.3. The Ionic Bond
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1.4. The Metallic Bond
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Chapter 2 LATTICE SYMMETRY
2.1. Symmetry Operations
Example 2.1. Symmetry algebra
Example 2.2. Point symmetry
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2.2. Crystal Lattices
Example 2.3. The stereographic projection
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Chapter 3 LATTICE AND STRUCTURE
3.1. The Reciprocal Lattice
Example 3.1. The zone law
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3.2. Structure Determination
Example 3.2. The Laue method
Example 3.3. Powder diffraction patterns
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3.3. Basic Crystal Structures
Example 3.4. The packing factor
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Chapter 4 LATTICE DYNAMICS
4.1. Linear Lattice Vibrations
Example 4.1. The Debye approximation
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4.2. Phonons
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4.3. Lattice Thermal Properties
Example 4.2. Thermal expansion
Example 4.3. Lattice thermal conduction
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Chapter 5 ELECTRON KINETICS
5.1. Free-Electron Approximation
Example 5.1. The Fermi-Dirac distribution
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5.2. Electronic Thermal Properties
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5.3. Electronic Transport
Example 5.2. Electrical resistivity
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5.4. Free Electrons in a Magnetic Field
Example 5.3. The Landau levels of free electrons
Example 5.4. The Hall effect
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Chapter 6 ELECTRON DYNAMICS
6.1. Bloch Waves
Example 6.1. Bloch waves in a one-dimensional periodic potential
Example 6.2. The velocity of Bloch electrons
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6.2. The Weak-Binding Approximation
Example 6.3. The effective mass of Bloch electrons
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6.3. The Tight-Binding Approximation
Example 6.4. Energy bands in a simple cubic lattice
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6.4. The Concept of Holes
Example 6.5. Carrier effective mass
Example 6.6. Two-band transport
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Chapter 7 SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS
7.1. Intrinsic Semiconductors
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7.2. Impurity Semiconductors
Example 7.1. n-type and p-type semiconductors
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7.3. Inhomogeneous Semiconductors
Example 7.2. Energy-band diagrams
Example 7.3. Steady-state diffusion of excess minority carriers
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7.4. The pn Junction
Example 7.4. Depletion capacitance
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7.5. The Junction Transistor
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Chapter 8 DIELECTRICS
8.1. Polarization of Dielectrics
Example 8.1. Atomic polarizability
Example 8.2. Ferroelectrics
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8.2. Ionic Solids
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8.3. Frequency-Dependent Polarizability
Example 8.2. Optical constants of metals
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Chapter 9 SOLID STATE MAGNETISM
9.1. Diamagnetism
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9.2. Paramagnetism
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9.3. Ferromagnetism
Example 9.1. Spin waves
Example 9.2. Ferromagnetic materials
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9.4. Antiferromagnetism and Ferrimagnetism
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Chapter 10 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
10.1. The Superconducting State
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10.2. Cooper Pairs
Example 10.1. High-temperature superconductivity
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10.3. Flux Quantization
Example 10.2. Type II superconductors
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Chapter 11 SOLID SURFACES
11.1. Surface Structure
Example 11.1. Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED)
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11.2. Lattice Dynamics at Surfaces
Example 11.2. Surface polaritons
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11.3. Surface Electronic States
Example 11.3. The work function at metal surfaces
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Further Reading
Index