Huebener P.R. Conductors, Semiconductors, Superconductors: An Introduction to Solid State Physics

Springer, 2015, 215 p.This book represents an updated and strongly extended edition of the book published by the same author nearly 10 years ago with the title "Electrons in Action". In particular, the physical contents were pointed out more clearly by mathematically formulating the fundamentals. The book aims at students of the natural sciences, and in particular of physics and materials science, as well as at engineers, as an introduction to solid state physics. It may serve as a motivating pre-stage and companion of the established and very detailed textbooks. In addition to the physical contents, the book treats the important role played by many well known and often still very young scientists. The fundamental developments are supplemented by describing their scientific and historic environment.Spectacular Advances
Well Ordered Lattice Structures in Crystals
Permanent Movement in the Crystal Lattice
Electric Conductor or Insulator?-Energy Bands
Metals Obey the Rules of Quantum Statistics
Less Can Be More: Semiconductors
Circling Electrons in High Magnetic Fields
The Winner: Superconductors
The Big Surprise: High-Temperature Superconductivity
Magnetism: Order Among the Elementary Magnets
Nanostructures: Superlattices, Quantum Wires, and Quantum Dots
Defects in the Crystal Lattice: Useful or Harmful?
Nobel Prizes in Physics Closely Connected with the Physics of Solids
Nobel Prizes in Chemistry Closely Connected with the Physics of Solids