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New 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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An introductory text on solid state physics for seniors and beginning graduate students in physical science and engineering, covering topics which include crystal structure and binding, phonons, fermi surfaces and metals, superconductivity, magnetic resonance, and surface and interface physics. Appendices explain numerous calculations and equations. This seventh edition contains treatment of fiber optics and new magnetic materials, and displays the results of scanning tunneling microscopy. Includes b&w illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780471111818
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 8/28/1995
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 7
  • Pages: 688
  • Product dimensions: 7.16 (w) x 9.52 (h) x 1.18 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles Kittel did his undergraduate work in physics at M.I.T and at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He worked in the solid state group at Bell Laboratories, along with Bardeen and Shockley, leaving to start the theoretical solid state physics group at Berkeley in 1951. His research has been largely in magnetism and in semiconductors. In magnetism he developed the theories of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic resonance and the theory of single ferromagnetic domains, and extended the Bloch theory of magnons. In semiconductor physics he participated in the first cyclotron and plasma resonance experiments and extended the results to the theory of impurity states and to electron-hole drops.

He has been awarded three Guggenheim fellowships, the Oliver Buckley Prize for Solid State Physics, and, for contributions to teaching, the Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers, He is a member of the National Academy of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Crystal structure 1
Ch. 2 Wave diffraction and the reciprocal lattice 23
Ch. 3 Crystal binding and elastic constants 47
Ch. 4 Phonons I : crystal vibrations 89
Ch. 5 Phonons II : thermal properties 105
Ch. 6 Free electron Fermi gas 131
Ch. 7 Energy bands 161
Ch. 8 Semiconductor crystals 185
Ch. 9 Fermi surfaces and metals 221
Ch. 10 Superconductivity 257
Ch. 11 Diamagnetism and paramagnetism 297
Ch. 12 Ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism 321
Ch. 13 Magnetic resonance 361
Ch. 14 Plasmons, polaritons, and polarons 393
Ch. 15 Optical processes and excitons 427
Ch. 16 Dielectrics and ferroelectrics 453
Ch. 17 Surface and interface physics 487
Ch. 18 Nanostructures 515
Ch. 19 Noncrystalline solids 565
Ch. 20 Point defects 583
Ch. 21 Dislocations 597
Ch. 22 Alloys 619
App. A Temperature dependence of the reflection lines 641
App. B Ewald calculation of lattice sums 644
App. C Quantization of elastic waves : phonons 648
App. D Fermi-Dirac distribution function 652
App. E Derivation of the dk/dt equation 655
App. F Boltzmann transport equation 656
App. G Vector potential, field momentum, and gauge transformations 661
App. H Cooper pairs 665
App. I Ginzburg-Landau equation 667
App. J Electron-phonon collisions 671
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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 4, 2009

    Poorly Explained Text

    This book does an extremely poor job of explaining important concepts of solid state physics. There are only a few examples and even those do not flow well within the text. Many of the exercises at the end of the chapter were poorly related to the material. I had to reference other books and professors to get the required information.

    The only redeeming quality of this book was that it covered a fairly large range of topics. However, it is no help to someone that would like to learn the material. There are large jumps and gaps in the flow of the information.

    A text that I briefly referenced was Aschroft and Mermin. I did not read the text as completely as I did this one because Kittel was the text assigned for the class, so I can only say that I found it useful. I would recommend to purchase the Aschroft and Mermin Solid State Physics textbook instead of this one.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 12, 2002

    incredibly badly written book

    i personally didnt like this book at all.. the only positive thing that i can say for this book is that it covers all the modern topics.. (which book doesnt?) however, it makes huge jumps in conclusions that have little explanations to go with them.. it does not explain important concepts in a coherent fashion.. it's possible to cite many instances of blunt statements and formulae with hardly any context at all! in fact in certain sections it looks almost like a handbook for standard formulae in solid state physics.. to top it off there is the use of the almost extinct CGS units with the occasional SI equivalent formulae thrown in... there is no consistency even in the use of these SI unit formulae.. therefore, it would not be an understatement to say that this important subject is treated in a very offhand fashion by the author... i would recommend that the serious student read the book by Ashcroft and Mermin instead of this rather shallow book..

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