Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 Preface
7 1 General Impact of Translational Symmetry in Crystals on Solid State Physics 1.1 Crystal Symmetry in Real Space 1.2 Symmetry and Physical Properties in Crystals 1.3 Wave Propagation in Periodic Media and Construction of Reciprocal Lattice 1.A Symmetry Constraints on Rotation Axes 1.B Twinning in Crystals
8 2 Electron Waves in Crystals 2.1 Electron Behavior in a Periodic Potential and Energy Gap Formation 2.2 The Brillouin Zone 2.3 Band Structure 2.4 Graphene 2.5 Fermi Surface 2.A Cyclotron Resonance and Related Phenomena
9 3 Elastic Wave Propagation in Periodic Media, Phonons, and Thermal Properties of Crystals 3.1 Linear Chain of the Periodically Positioned Atoms 3.2 Phonons and Heat Capacity 3.3 Thermal Vibrations of Atoms in Crystals 3.4 Crystal Melting 3.5 X-ray and Neutron Interaction with Phonons 3.6 Lattice Anharmonicity 3.7 Velocities of Bulk Acoustic Waves 3.8 Surface Acoustic Waves 3.A Bose's Derivation of the Planck Distribution Function
10 4 Electrical Conductivity in Metals 4.1 Classical Drude Theory 4.2 Quantum–Mechanical Approach 4.3 Phonon Contribution to Electrical Resistivity 4.4 Defects' Contributions to Metal Resistivity 4.A Derivation of the Fermi-Dirac Distribution Function
11 5 Electron Contribution to Thermal Properties of Crystals 5.1 Electronic Specific Heat 5.2 Electronic Heat Conductivity and the Wiedemann–Franz Law 5.3 Thermoelectric Phenomena 5.4 Thermoelectric Materials
12 6 Electrical Conductivity in Semiconductors 6.1 Intrinsic (Undoped) Semiconductors 6.2 Extrinsic (Doped) Semiconductors 6.3 p–n Junction 6.4 Semiconductor Transistors 6.A Estimation of Exciton's Radius and Binding Energy
13 7 Work Function and Related Phenomena 7.1 Work Function of Metals 7.2 Photoelectric Effect 7.3 Thermionic Emission 7.4 Metal-Semiconductor Junction 7.A Image Charge Method 7.B A Free Electron Cannot Absorb a Photon
14 8 Light Interaction with Metals and Dielectrics 8.1 Skin Effect in Metals 8.2 Light Reflection from a Metal 8.3 Plasma Frequency 8.4 Introduction to Metamaterials 8.5 Structural Colors 8.A Acoustic Metamaterials
15 9 Light Interaction with Semiconductors 9.1 Solar Cells 9.2 Solid State Radiation Detectors 9.3 Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) 9.4 Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) 9.5 Semiconductor Lasers 9.6 Photonic Materials
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