Featuring chapters on minerals and on dislocations in colloidal crystals, this title extends the first principles calculations of kink configurations in bcc metals to high pressures, including the use of flexible boundary conditions to model dilatational effects. It also includes observations of dislocations in colloidal crystals.

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Emphasizing the physical concepts and the derivation of results by dimensional analysis, this book deals with the Jellium Model and the Linear Combination of Atomic Orbitals approaches to solids and introduces the basic concepts and information regarding metals and semiconductors. It includes worked problems, chapter-end exercises and summaries.

Presents an accessible treatment of solid state physics for undergraduate physics students as well as materials science and electrical engineering students. This title covers topics, such as bonding in solids, amorphous materials, polymers, diffraction, lattice vibrations and phonons, free electron models of electrical conduction, and magnetism.

Presents the advances in studies of phase transitions induced by short laser pulses in solids and the interface solid-liquid. This work focuses on phase transitions in the films of cryogenic molecular compounds doped with different impurities with respect to their use in MALDI and MAPLE processes.

Monograph on condensed matter physics, electrical engineering and materials science.

Condensed matter physics (solid state physics) deals with the study of matter in scales larger than atoms. Some of the key questions researched include Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL) theory, and the impact of carbon-fibre reinforced-plastic (CFRP) materials in the design of aerospace structures and other designs.

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of different surfaces whose structures have been determined experimentally. This title includes a chapter that contains a compilation of the structural data base on surfaces within a series of tables that allows direct comparison of structural parameters for related systems.

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Details how absorption spectroscopy provides information on the nature, concentration, charge state and configuration of impurities in crystals and also on their kinetics and transformations under annealing. This book presents the physical bases useful for the understanding of impurity spectra.

Presents the theory of the thermoelectric and related phenomena in detail to help researchers to understand their observations and develop improved thermoelectric materials. This work discusses the methods for the selection of materials and their improvement. It reviews thermoelectric materials for use in refrigeration and electrical generation.

Suitable for a two semester advanced undergraduate or graduate course in Solid State Physics, this book offers modern coverage of the theory and related experiments, including the group theoretical approach to band structures, Moessbauer recoil free fraction, semi-classical electron theory, and magneto conductivity.

Designed for experimentalists, who study the dynamics of thin film growth using diffraction techniques, and for theorists, who wish to learn such a dynamic behaviour in Fourier space, this book aims to bring the reader to the forefront of research in the area of the dynamics of interface growth.

Includes quantum interference phenomena, such as the Aharonov-Bohm-like oscillations of the magnetoresistance of thin metallic cylinders and rings, transport through chaotic billiards, and such quantization effects as the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect.

This monograph examines all of the major nuclear methods which are used in the study of condensed matter or solid state physics, including nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear orientation and neutron scattering. Many illustrative examples are included.

Overview of NMR theory and applications in fluid systems, fully referenced for research use.

The invention of scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy and near field optical microscopy has opened up a fresh field of research: scanning probe methods (SMP). This title covers the instrumental aspects and design of force microscopes in different environments (ambient pressure, low temperature, ultrahigh vacuum, liquids).