Electrons in Metals and Alloys

✍ Scribed by J. A. Alonso and N. H. March (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 600
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a broad review of the electronic structure of metals and alloys. It emphasises the way in which the behavior of electrons in these materials governs the thermodynamic and other properties of these conducting materials. The theoretical treatment proceeds from a wave mechanics approach to more sophisticated techniques for the description of the properties of metals and alloys

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Dedication, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages v-vi
1 - Background and outline, Pages 1-6
2 - Electron-density theory, Pages 7-19
3 - Alloy formation in terms of chemical properties of the components, Pages 21-54
4 - Electronic structure of metals, Pages 55-127
5 - Point defects, Pages 129-203
6 - Crystalline alloys, Pages 205-285
7 - Electronic states related to the thermodynamics of disordered systems, Pages 287-327
8 - Electrical transport and optical properties, Pages 329-361
9 - Magnetism, Pages 363-432
10 - Surfaces and interfaces, Pages 433-511
Appendix 2.1 - Fermi hole and exchange energy for jellium, Pages 514-516
Appendix 2.2 - The Hohenberg–Kohn Theorem, Pages 517-519
Appendix 4.1 - Calculation of the density of states in a metal within the tight-binding theory by the method of moments, Pages 520-521
Appendix 5.1 - Self-consistent linear screening theory, Pages 522-523
Appendix 5.2 - Relaxation around vacancies in metals, Pages 524-525
Appendix 5.3 - Direct correlation function for a hard-sphere liquid, Pages 526-527
Appendix 5.4 - Formation energy of a relaxed self-interstitial, Page 528
Appendix 5.5 - Spin-dependent one-body potentials, Pages 529-530
Appendix 5.6 - Ionic energy levels of 3d-impurities in metals, Pages 531-533
Appendix 7.1 - The T-Matrix, Pages 534-535
Appendix 7.2 - Theory of localization of non-interacting electrons, Pages 536-538
Appendix 8.1 - Derivation of inverse-transport theory for non-interacting electrons, Pages 539-541
Appendix 8.2 - The Friedel sum rule, Pages 542-544
Appendix 8.3 - Method of calculation of plasmon properties as functions of phenomenological relaxation time, Pages 545-548
Appendix 8.4 - Ginzburg–Landau theory and Josephson junctions, Pages 549-554
Appendix 9.1 - Homogeneity, scaling and an introduction to the renormalization-group method, Pages 555-558
Appendix 9.2 - A criterion for local-moment formation and its utility in studying ferromagnetism of transition metals, Pages 559-562
References, Pages 563-592
Notes added in proof, Pages 593-594
Index, Pages 595-603