Physics 555 Fall 2011
Required Textbook

H. Ibach and H. Luth, Solid State Physics, An Introduction to Principles of Materials Science, 4th edition, Springer (2009) ISBN 0-387-52207-7

Other recommended books
(an incomplete list of books I like)

	Charles Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, John Wiley & Sons highly recommended elementary text.  very useful tables of properties.
	N. W.Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics, Saunders (1976) good alternative introduction, more theoretical than Kittel
	John M. Ziman, Principles of the Theory of Solids Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 1979 paperback A great and simple graduate-level treatment of the core topics.
	G. Grosso and G. Pastori Parravicini, Solid State Physics, Academic, 2000 This was my choice of text in 2004.  A very nice book, definitely idiosycratic.
	Charles Kittel, Quantum Theory of Solids John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Revision edition (March 19, 1987)  ISBN: 0471624128
	S. M. Sze, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 1981)
	Walter A. Harrison, Electronic Structure and the Properties of Solids: The Physics of the Chemical Bond Dover Pubns (1989) ISBN: 0486660214
	Walter A. Harrison, Solid State Theory Dover Pubns (1980) ISBN: 0486639487
	O. Madelung, Introduction to Solid State Theory, 3rd Ed., Springer (1996)
	Gerald D. Mahan, Condensed Matter in a Nutshell, Princeton Univ. Press, 2011
	S. R. Elliott, The Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Cambridge (1999) ISBN: 0471981958
	M. P. Marder, Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2010) ISBN: 047117779-2
	L. Mihaly and M. C. Martin, Solid State Physics, Problems and Solutions, Wiley (1996)
	Melvin J. Lax, Symmetry Principles in Solid State and Molecular Physics Dover Pubns (2001) ISBN: 0486420019 Amazon lists this at List Price: $24.95, discounted price: $17.47  This is my favorite group theory book.  However, it is not for beginners.
	W. Hayes and A. M. Stoneham, Defects and Defect Processes in Nonmetallic Solids Dover Pubns (2004) ISBN: 0486434834
	Patrik Fazekas, Lecture notes on electron correlation and magnetism World Scientific,  (1999) ISBN: 9810224745 QC754.2.B35 F39 1999
	Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, Superconductivity of Metals and Alloys, Perseus Books Group (1999) ISBN: 0738201014
	P. M. Chaikin and T. C. Lubensky, Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge (1995) In spite of the title, its really about soft condensed matter.
	A. A. Abrikosov, Fundamentals of the Theory of Metals, North-Holland (1988)
	E. Kaxiras, Atomic and Electronic Structure of Solids, Cambridge (2003)
	Y. Toyozawa, Optical Processes in Solids, Cambridge (2003)
	P. Y. Yu and M. Cardona, Fundamentals of Semiconductors, Springer (1999) This was my choice of text in 1999.  It's very good but a little too specialized for PHY555.
	K. Seeger, Semiconductor Physics, Springer (6th Ed.) (1997) ISBN: 3-540-61507-5
	H. Luth, Surfaces and Interfaces of Solid Materials, 3rd Ed., Springer (1995)
	A. Zangwill, Physics at Surfaces, Cambridge (1988)
	D. R. Nelson, Defects & Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge (2002) ISBN: 0521004004
	K. S. Song and R. T. Williams, Self-Trapped Excitons, 2nd Ed., Springer 1996) ISBN: 3-540-60446-4
	S. Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems, Cambridge (1995) ISBN: 0-521-41604-3
	N. Spaldin, Magnetic Materials : Fundamentals and Device Applications, Cambridge (2003) ISBN: 0521016584

last revised 8/14/2007 Philip B. Allen
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