Rajendra Prasad

Electronic Structure of Materials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most textbooks in the field are either too advanced for students or don't adequately cover current research topics. Bridging this gap, this classroom-tested book helps advanced undergraduate and graduate students understand electronic structure methods and enables them to use these techniques in their work. The text takes a microscopic view of materials as composed of interacting electrons and nuclei. It explains all the properties of materials in terms of basic quantities of electrons and nuclei, such as electronic charge, mass, and atomic number.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 469
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9781466504684
• ISBN-10: 1466504684
• Artikelnr.: 36336995

Autorenporträt

Rajendra Prasad is a professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Roorkee (now renamed as IIT Roorkee) and completed postdoctoral work at Northeastern University. Dr. Prasad is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Spanning over four decades, his research work focuses on the electronic structure of metals, disordered alloys, atomic clusters, transition metal oxides, ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and topological insulators.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Quantum Description of Materials. Density Functional Theory.
Energy Band Theory. Methods of Electronic Structure Calculations I. Methods
of Electronic Structure Calculations II. Methods of Electronic Structure
Calculations III. Disordered Alloys. First-Principles Molecular Dynamics.
Materials Design Using Electronic Structure Tools. Amorphous Materials.
Atomic Clusters and Nanowires. Surfaces, Interfaces, and Superlattices.
Graphene and Nanotubes. Quantum Hall Effects and Topological Insulators.
Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Materials. High-Temperature Superconductors.
Spintronics Materials. Battery Materials. Materials in Extreme
Environments. Appendices. References. Index.