Required Textbook
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S. Doniach and E. H. Sondheimer, Green's Functions
for Solid State Physicists,
Imperial College Press, New Edition, 1998 paperback |
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. |
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| N. W.Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics,
Saunders (1976)
good alternative introduction, more theoretical than Kittel |
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Charles Kittel, Quantum Theory of Solids
John Wiley & Sons; 2nd Revision edition (March 19, 1987) ISBN: 0471624128 |
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Walter A. Harrison, Electronic Structure and the Properties
of Solids: The Physics of the Chemical Bond
Dover Pubns (1989) ISBN: 0486660214 Amazon lists this at List Price: $22.95, discounted price: $16.07 |
| Walter A. Harrison, Solid State Theory
Dover Pubns (1980) ISBN: 0486639487 |
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| O. Madelung, Introduction to Solid State Theory, 3rd Ed., Springer (1996) | |
| H. Ibach and H. Luth, Solid State Physics, An
introduction to theory and experiment, Springer
(1991)
ISBN 0-387-52207-7 |
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| S. R. Elliott, The Physics and Chemistry of Solids,
Cambridge (1999)
ISBN: 0471981958 |
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| 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. |
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| Patrik Fazekas, Lecture notes on electron correlation
and magnetism
World Scientific, (1999) ISBN: 9810224745 QC754.2.B35 F39 1999 |
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| Pierre-Gilles De Gennes, Superconductivity of Metals
and Alloys, Perseus Books Group (1999)
ISBN: 0738201014 |
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| 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. |
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| 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) | |
| K. Seeger, Semiconductor Physics, Springer (6th
Ed.) (1997)
ISBN: 3-540-61507-5 |
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| 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 |
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| K. S. Song and R. T. Williams, Self-Trapped Excitons,
2nd Ed., Springer 1996)
ISBN: 3-540-60446-4 |
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| S. Datta, Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems,
Cambridge (1995)
ISBN: 0-521-41604-3 |
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| N. Spaldin, Magnetic Materials : Fundamentals and
Device Applications, Cambridge (2003)
ISBN: 0521016584 |
last revised 8/19/2003 Philip B. Allen
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