Orbital approach to the electronic structure of solids / by Enric Canadell, Marie-Liesse Doublet, Christophe Iung.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 understandingproperties of solids like the density of states, the Fermi surface etc. can be qualitatively sketched and used to ei.

Cover; Contents; 1 Elementary introduction to the transport properties of solids; 1.1 Free electron model; 1.1.1 One-dimensional system; 1.1.2 Generalisation to a three-dimensional system; 1.2 Conductivity of real solids; 1.2.1 Factors influencing the conductivity; 1.2.2 Band structure of real solids; 1.2.3 Metallic behaviour; 1.2.4 Semiconducting and insulating behaviour; 1.2.5 Number of carriers; 2 Electronic structure of molecules: use of symmetry; 2.1 Molecular orbital theory; 2.1.1 Born-Oppenheimer approximation; 2.1.2 One-electron approximation; 2.1.3 LCAO approximation.

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