Theoretical Materials Science
Tracing the Electronic Origins of Materials Behavior
A. Gonis
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ISBN: 1-55899-540-4 |
The primary goal of a materials scientist
is a predictive understanding of materials properties, and that
requires a clear picture of the role played by electrons in determining
the materials behavior. Only then can one hope to design and
build new materials with desired physical, chemical and engineering
characteristics. Present-day research into this subject is carried
out on the basis of quantum mechanics, through solution of the
so-called single-particle Schrödinger equation that describes
the behavior of electrons in a solid. This new volume from Antonios
Gonis attempts to describe one formal approach to solving the
Schrödinger equation developed within the framework of multiple
scattering theory (MST). With 24 chapters and 1031 pages, the
volume offers a comprehensive and welcome entre to the field
of electronic structure of solids and should serve as a treatise
for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers
in the field. Topics include: concepts and formalism; periodic
solids and impurities; substitutional alloys; surfaces and interfaces;
transport; phonons and photons; and formal Green-function theory.
2000, hardcover, 1031 pages.
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