Metals - the Drude and Sommerfeld models; the quantum mechanics of particles in a periodic potential; the nearly free electron model; the tight-binding model; some general points about band structure; semiconductors and insulators; band structure engineering; measurement of band structure; transport of heat and electricity in metals and semiconductors; magneto-resistance in three-dimensional systems; magneto-resistance in two-dimensional systems and the quantum Hall effect; inhomogeneous and hot carrier distribution in semiconductors; Appendices - useful terminology in condensed matter physics, derivation of density of states in k-space, derivation of distribution functions, phonons, the Bohr model of hydrogen, experimental considerations in measuring resistivity and Hall effect, canonical momentum, superconductivity, symbols, fundamental constants.
Dr John Singleton, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, Tel: 01865 272236, Fax: 01865 272400, Email: j.singleton1@physics.ox.ac.uk. Leave of absence Aug 2000- Aug 2001: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop E536, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA, Tel: +1 505 665 3857, Fax: +1 505 665 4311, Email: jsingle@lanl.gov
Excellent as an easily navigable reference text; a sort of skeletal Kittell, but with more contemporary illustrative material ... first-time lecture course writers could find it an excellent way of orientating themselves in the subject ... likely to endure as a useful reference source for researchers for some years. * Contemporary Physics *
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