Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids

Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids
Author: Walter A. Harrison
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486141780

This text offers basic understanding of the electronic structure of covalent and ionic solids, simple metals, transition metals and their compounds; also explains how to calculate dielectric, conducting, bonding properties.

Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Solids

Electronic Structure and Physical Properties of Solids
Author: Hugues Dreysse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2008-01-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540464379

A very comprehensive book, enabling the reader to understand the basic formalisms used in electronic structure determination and particularly the "Muffin Tin Orbitals" methods. The latest developments are presented, providing a very detailed description of the "Full Potential" schemes. This book will provide a real state of the art, since almost all of the contributions on formalism have not been, and will not be, published elsewhere. This book will become a standard reference volume. Moreover, applications in very active fields of today's research on magnetism are presented. A wide spectrum of such questions is covered by this book. For instance, the paper on interlayer exchange coupling should become a "classic", since there has been fantastic experimental activity for 10 years and this can be considered to be the "final" theoretical answer to this question. This work has never been presented in such a complete form.

Electronic Structure and Magneto-Optical Properties of Solids

Electronic Structure and Magneto-Optical Properties of Solids
Author: Victor Antonov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2006-05-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402019068

The aim of this book is to review recent achievements in thetheoretical investigations of the electronic structure, optical, magneto-optical (MO), and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD)properties of compounds and Multilayered structures.Chapter 1 of this book is of an introductory character and presentsthe theoretical foundations of the band theory of solids such as thedensity functional theory for ground state properties of solidsincluding local density approximation (LDA). It also presents somemodifications to the LDA, such as gradient correction, self-interaction correction, LDA+U method, orbital polarizationcorrection, GW approximation, and dynamical mean- field theory. Thedescription of the magneto-optical effects and linear response theoryare also presented.The book describes the MO properties for a number of 3d materials, such as elemental ferromagnetic metals (Fe, Co and Ni) andparamagnetic metals in external magnetic fields (Pd and Pt), someimportant 3d compounds such as XPt3 (X=V, Cr, Mn, Fe and Co), Heusleralloys, chromium spinel chalcogenides, MnB and strongly correlatedmagnetite Fe304. It also describes the recent achievements in both theexperimental and theoretical investigations of the electronicstructure, optical and MO properties of transition metal multilayeredstructures (MLS).The book presents also the MO properties of f band ferromagneticmaterials: Tm, Nd, Sm, Ce and La monochalcogenides, some important Y

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids

Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids
Author: Efthimios Kaxiras
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2003-01-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0521810108

Graduate-level textbook for physicists, chemists and materials scientists.

Electronic Structure of Materials

Electronic Structure of Materials
Author: Adrian P. Sutton
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1993-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 0191588539

This book describes the modern real-space approach to electronic structures and properties of crystalline and non-crystalline materials in a form readily accessible to undergraduates in materials science, physics, and chemistry. - ;This book describes the modern real-space approach to electronic structures and properties of crystalline and non-crystalline materials in a form readily accessible to undergraduates in materials science, physics, and chemistry. -

Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids

Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids
Author: Enric Canadell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0191627410

This book provides an intuitive yet sound understanding of how structure and properties of solids may be related. The natural link is provided by the band theory approach to the electronic structure of solids. The chemically insightful concept of orbital interaction and the essential machinery of band theory are used throughout the book to build links between the crystal and electronic structure of periodic systems. In such a way, it is shown how important tools for understanding properties of solids like the density of states, the Fermi surface etc. can be qualitatively sketched and used to either understand the results of quantitative calculations or to rationalize experimental observations. Extensive use of the orbital interaction approach appears to be a very efficient way of building bridges between physically and chemically based notions to understand the structure and properties of solids.

Electronic Structure Calculations for Solids and Molecules

Electronic Structure Calculations for Solids and Molecules
Author: Jorge Kohanoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2006-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139453483

Electronic structure problems are studied in condensed matter physics and theoretical chemistry to provide important insights into the properties of matter. This 2006 graduate textbook describes the main theoretical approaches and computational techniques, from the simplest approximations to the most sophisticated methods. It starts with a detailed description of the various theoretical approaches to calculating the electronic structure of solids and molecules, including density-functional theory and chemical methods based on Hartree-Fock theory. The basic approximations are thoroughly discussed, and an in-depth overview of recent advances and alternative approaches in DFT is given. The second part discusses the different practical methods used to solve the electronic structure problem computationally, for both DFT and Hartree-Fock approaches. Adopting a unique and open approach, this textbook is aimed at graduate students in physics and chemistry, and is intended to improve communication between these communities. It also serves as a reference for researchers entering the field.

The Electronic Structures of Solids

The Electronic Structures of Solids
Author: B. R. Coles
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1483280128

The Electronic Structures of Solids aims to provide students of solid state physics with the essential concepts they will need in considering properties of solids that depend on their electronic structures and idea of the electronic character of particular materials and groups of materials. The book first discusses the electronic structure of atoms, including hydrogen atom and many-electron atom. The text also underscores bonding between atoms and electrons in metals. Discussions focus on bonding energies and structures in the solid elements, eigenstates of free-electron gas, and electrical conductivity. The manuscript reviews the presence of electrons in metals, as well as consequences of the periodic potential; Brillouin zones and the nearly-free-electron model; electronic structures of the metallic elements; and calculation of band structures. The text also ponders on metals, insulators, and semiconductors. Topics include full and empty bands, compound and doped semiconductors, optical properties of solids, and the dynamics of electron and holes. The book is a dependable reference for readers and students of solid state physics interested in the electronic structure of solids.

Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids

Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids
Author: Enric Canadell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199534934

This book is aiming at filling the gap between the different languages of the physics and chemistry communities to understand the electronic structure of solids. How structure and properties of solids are related is illustrated by considering in detail a large number of real examples.