Electronic Materials

Part I: Structure, main properties, metals, magneticsPrefaceIntroduction I.1. Research facilities I.2. Electronics materials in general physics I.3. Comments on theoretical approaches I.4. First example: extralarge parameters of material 1.5. Second example: giant effects1. Electronics materials structure 1.1. Atomic bonding in metals, semiconductors and dielectrics1.2. Symmetry of crystals, textures and composites1.3. Basic structures and defects in lattice1.4. Quasicrystals and nanomaterials1.5. Summary2. Mechanical properties of solids2.1. Mechanical stress and strain tensors2.2. Elastic stiffness and compliance2.3. Elastic waves in crystals and films2.4. Summary3. Thermal properties of solids3.1. Basic thermodynamic relations3.2. Thermal expansion of solids3.3. Heat capacity in crystals 3.4. Thermal conductivity of solids 3.5. Summary 4. Quasi-particles in solids 4.1. Different movements processes in solids 4.2. Features of quasi-particles statistics 4.3. Photons 4.4. Phonons 4.5. Magnons 4.6. Electrons in atoms and in crystals 4.7. Summary 5. Metals Defining features of metals5.1. Electrical conductivity of metals 5.2. Thermal and mechanical properties of metals 5.3. Electronic properties of metals and Fermi surface Mechanisms of electrons scattering in metals 5.4. Special electronic states in metals 5.5. Superconductivity in metals and alloys 5.6. Summary 6. Magnetics6.1. Basic definitions 6.2. Disordered magnetics 6.3. Ferro-, antiferro- and ferrimagnetism 6.4. Nanomagnetic materials 6.5. Summary References

Part II: Semiconductors, dielectrics, phase transitionsPreface7. Semiconductors7.1. Classification of semiconductors 7.2. Fundamentals of band theory of semiconductors 7.3. Intrinsic and extrinsic semiconductors 7.4. Kinetic processes in semiconductors 7.5. Optical phenomena in semiconductors 7.6. Semiconductors in magnetic fields 7.7. Summary 8. Dielectrics-insulators 8.1. Main features of dielectrics 8.2. Macroscopic description of polarization 8.3. Different mechanisms of polarization 8.4. Optical and far-infrared polarizations 8.5. Thermally activated polarizations 8.6. Clausius-Mosotti-Lorentz equation 8.7. Dynamics of electrical polarization 8.8. Dielectric losses and dielectric spectroscopy 8.9. Electroconductivity in dielectrics 8.10. Electrical breakdown 8.11. Summary 9. Active dielectrics 9.1. Simplified description of various effects 9.2. Piezoelectric effect 9.3. Inverse piezoelectric effect 9.4. Electromechanical coupling in piezoelectrics 9.5. Electrostriction 9.6. Pyroelectrics and electrets 9.7. High-permittivity dielectrics and paraelectrics 9.8. Ferroelectrics and antiferroelecrics 9.9. Ferrielecrics and ferroelastics 9.10. Nonlinearity of ferroelectrics and paraelectrics 9.11. Interdependence of different effects in polar crystals 9.12. Summary 10. Phase transitions 10.1. Phase transitions of first and second order 10.2. Physical meaning of ordering parameter 10.3. Phase transitions with anomalies in dielectric properties 10.4. Phase transitions with anomalies in conductivity 10.5. Phase transitions in liquid crystals 10.6. Summary