Theoretical Materials Science - Tracing the Electronic Origins of Materials Behavior (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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. Research is carried out on the basis of quantum mechanics, through solution of the so-called single-particle Schroedinger equation that describes the behavior of electrons in a solid. This book describes one formal approach to solving the Schroedinger equation developed within the framework of multiple scattering theory (MST). It offers a comprehensive and welcome entree 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.

General

Imprint:	Materials Research Society
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	A. Gonis
Dimensions:	236 x 157 x 56mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	1031
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-55899-540-6
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > General
LSN:	1-55899-540-4
Barcode:	9781558995406

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