Introduction to Solid State PhysicsNew edition of the most widely-used textbook on solid state physics in the world. Describes how the excitations and imperfections of actual solids can be understood with simple models that have firmly established scope and power. The foundation of this book is based on experiment, application and theory. Several significant advances in the field have been added including high temperature superconductors, quasicrystals, nanostructures, superlattices, Bloch/Wannier levels, Zener tunneling, light-emitting diodes and new magnetic materials. |
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Page 120
... mode for each interval AK = π / L , so that the number of modes per unit range of K is L / T for Kπ / a , and 0 for K > / a . There are three polarizations p for each value of K : in one dimension two of these are transverse and one ...
... mode for each interval AK = π / L , so that the number of modes per unit range of K is L / T for Kπ / a , and 0 for K > / a . There are three polarizations p for each value of K : in one dimension two of these are transverse and one ...
Page 121
... modes , giving a total of eight allowed modes for the eight particles . Thus the periodic boundary condition leads to one allowed mode per particle , exactly as for the fixed- end boundary condition of Fig . 3. If we had taken the modes ...
... modes , giving a total of eight allowed modes for the eight particles . Thus the periodic boundary condition leads to one allowed mode per particle , exactly as for the fixed- end boundary condition of Fig . 3. If we had taken the modes ...
Page 124
... modes are thermally excited . These are just the modes that may be treated as an elastic continuum with macroscopic elastic constants . The energy of the short wavelength modes ( for which this approximation fails ) is too high for them ...
... modes are thermally excited . These are just the modes that may be treated as an elastic continuum with macroscopic elastic constants . The energy of the short wavelength modes ( for which this approximation fails ) is too high for them ...
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PERIODIC ARRAYS OF ATOMS | 3 |
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INDEX SYSTEM FOR CRYSTAL PLANES | 12 |
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