Electronic Properties of Crystalline Solids: An Introduction to Fundamentals

As a self-study guide, course primer or teaching aid, Borchardt-Ott's Crystallography is the perfect textbook for students and teachers alike. In fact, it can be used by crystallographers, chemists, mineralogists, geologists and physicists. Based on the author's more than 25 years of teaching experience, the book has numerous line drawings designed especially for the text and a large number of exercises - with solutions - at the end of each chapter. This 3rd edition is the translation of the seventh German edition with new chapters focused on crystal chemistry and x-ray diffraction methods Classical waves: a review -- Wave approach to quantum mechanics -- Quantum mechanical treatment of simple systems -- Free-electron model of metals -- Origin of energy bands in solids -- Properties of energy bands -- Carrier transport -- Scattering processes -- Localized energy levels -- Magnetic-field effects -- Optical absorption -- Photoelectronic effects