Point Defects in Solids: General and Ionic Crystals

✍ Scribed by A. D. Franklin (auth.), James H. Crawford Jr., Lawrence M. Slifkin (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 567
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Crystal defects can no longer be thought of as a scientific curiosity, but must be considered an important aspect of solid-state science. This is largely because many of the more interesting properties of crystalline solids are disproportionately dominated by effects due to a tiny concentration of imperfections in an otherwise perfect lattice. The physics of such lattice defects is not only of significance in a great variety of applications, but is also interesting in its own right. Thus, an extensive science of point defects and dislocations has been constructed during the past two and a half decades. Stimulated by the technological and scientific interest in plasticity, there have appeared in recent years rather a large number of books dealing with dislocations; in the case of point defects, however, only very few broad and extensive treatments have been published. Thus, there are few compre­ hensive, tutorial sources for the scientist or engineer whose research ac­ tivities are affected by point defect phenomena, or who might wish to enter the field. It is partially to fill this need that the present treatise aims.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Statistical Thermodynamics of Point Defects in Crystals....Pages 1-101
Ionic Conductivity (Including Self-Diffusion)....Pages 103-150
Defect Mobilities in Ionic Crystals Containing Aliovalent Ions....Pages 151-200
Defect Creation by Radiation in Polar Crystals....Pages 201-290
Properties of Electron Centers....Pages 291-325
Hole Centers in Halide Lattices....Pages 327-380
Color Centers in Simple Oxides....Pages 381-490
Conduction by Polarons in Ionic Crystals....Pages 491-549
Back Matter....Pages 551-556

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy