David B Tanner

Optical Effects in Solids

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an overview of the optical effects in solids, addressing the physics of various materials and their response to electromagnetic radiation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 196mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1025g
• ISBN-13: 9781107160149
• ISBN-10: 1107160146
• Artikelnr.: 54541973

Autorenporträt

David B. Tanner is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. His research focuses on condensed matter and particle astrophysics. He has previously served as Department Chair and Chair of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics for American Physical Society (APS). In 2016, he received the APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids and, in the same year, shared a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Maxwell's equations and plane waves in matter
3. The complex dielectric function and refractive index
4. Classical theories for the dielectric function
5. Phonons
6. A look at real solids
7. Transmission and reflection
8. Free-electron metals
9. Optical excitations: quantum mechanics
10. Kramers-Kronig relations and sum rules
11. Superconductors
12. Semiconductors and insulators
13. Strongly interacting solids
14. Nonlocal effects
15. Anisotropic crystals
16. Magneto-optics
17. Inhomogeneous materials
Appendices
References
Index.