Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids
Enric Canadell, Marie-Liesse Doublet, and Christophe Iung
Abstract
This book provides an intuitive yet sound understanding of how structure and properties of solids may be related. The natural link is provided by the band theory approach to the electronic structure of solids. The chemically insightful concept of orbital interaction and the essential machinery of band theory are used throughout the book to build links between the crystal and electronic structure of periodic systems. In such a way, it is shown how important tools for understanding properties of solids like the density of states, the Fermi surface, etc. can be qualitatively sketched and used to ... More
This book provides an intuitive yet sound understanding of how structure and properties of solids may be related. The natural link is provided by the band theory approach to the electronic structure of solids. The chemically insightful concept of orbital interaction and the essential machinery of band theory are used throughout the book to build links between the crystal and electronic structure of periodic systems. In such a way, it is shown how important tools for understanding properties of solids like the density of states, the Fermi surface, etc. can be qualitatively sketched and used to either understand the results of quantitative calculations or to rationalize experimental observations. Extensive use of the orbital interaction approach appears to be a very efficient way of building bridges between physically and chemically based notions to understand the structure and properties of solids.
Keywords:
properties of solids,
band theory,
electronic structure,
orbital interaction,
periodic systems,
density of states,
Fermi surface,
quantitative calculations,
experimental observations,
chemically based notions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199534937 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534937.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Enric Canadell, author
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Marie-Liesse Doublet, author
Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier
Christophe Iung, author
Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier
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