Students will benefit from solving the exercises at the end of each chapter. This graduate-level book is intended for students and lecturers in physics, materials science and nanoelectronics.
The new edition of the popular introduction to solid-state physics provides a comprehensive overview on basic theoretical and experimental concepts of materials sciences. Special section are devoted to important devoted to important devices including GMR-sensors, amorphous materials, novel superconductors, nanostructures, quantum transport and metamaterials.