Mark Fox (Department of Physics and University of Sheffi Astronomy

Optical Properties of Solids

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date account of the optical physics of solids. All of the chapters have been updated and improved, and new sections on optical control of spin, quantum dots, plasmonics, negative refraction, carbon nanostructures and diamond NV centres have been added.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Master Series in Physics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 189mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9780199573370
• ISBN-10: 0199573379
• Artikelnr.: 27840431

Autorenporträt

Mark Fox, Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield, began his research career at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1986, as a Junior Research Fellow. After a post-doctoral position with AT&T Bell Laboratories in the US, he returned to Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He moved to Sheffield in 1998, becoming Professor there in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Classical propagation
3: Interband absorption
4: Excitons
5: Luminescence
6: Quantum confinement
7: Free electrons
8: Molecular materials
9: Luminescence centres
10: Phonons
11: Nonlinear optics
Appendices
A: Electromagnetism in dielectrics
B: Quantum theory of radiative absorption and emission
C: Angular momentum in atomic physics
D: Band theory
E: Semiconductor p-i-n diodes

Rezensionen

Easy to read and understand ... many examples which make it easier to understand. I can highly recommend this book Michaela Kogler, University of Innsbruck