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Introduction to

Solid State Physics

EIGHTH EDITION

Charles Kittel

Professor Emeritus University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

Chapter 18, Nanostructures, was written by

Professor Paul McEuen of Cornell University.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Contents

Contents

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Exchange Narrowing Zero-field Splitting Principle of Maser Action Three-Level Maser Lasers Summary Problems

CHAPTER 14 : PLASMONS, POLARITONS, AND POLARONS

Dielectric Function of the Electron Gas Definitions of the Dielectric Function Plasma Optics Dispersion Relation for Electromagnetic Waves Transverse Optical Modes in a Plasma Transparency of Metals in the Ultraviolet Longitudinal Plasma Oscillations Plasmons Electrostatic Screening Screened Coulomb Potential Pseudopotential Component U(0) Mott Metal-Insulator Transition Screening and Phonons in Metals Polaritons LST Relation Electron-Electron Interaction Fermi Liquid Electron-Electron Collisions Electron-Phonon Interaction : Polarons Peierls Instability of Linear Metals Summary Problems

CHAPTER 15 : OPTICAL PROCESSES AND EXCITONS Optical Reflectance Kramers-Kronig Relations Mathematical Note

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Color Centers F Centers Other Centers in Alkali Halides Problems

CHAPTER 21 : DISLOCATIONS

Shear Strength of Single Crystals Slip Dislocations

CHAPTER 22 : ALLOYS

Burgers Vectors Stress Fields ofDislocations Low-angle Grain Boundaries Dislocation Densities Dislocation Multiplication and Slip Strength of Alloys Dislocations and Crystal Growth Whiskers Hardness of Materials Problems

General Considerations Substitutional Solid Solutions- Hume-Rothery Rules Order-Disorder Transformation Elementary Theory of Order Phase Diagrams Eutectics Transition Metal Alloys Electrical Conductivity Kondo Effect Problems

APPENDIX B : EWALD CALCULATION OF LATTICE SUMS Ewald-Kornfeld Method for Lattice Sums for Dipole Arrays

APPENDIX A : TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE REFLECTION LINES^641