The prime intention was to write a modern version of 'Mott and Jones'- a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Theory of Metals and Alloys. But much has been discovered in 30 years, and this would have stretched to many thousands of pages. We therefore decided to concentrate on the two major topics where our interests mainly lie-the electronic structure and electrical properties of metals, on the one hand, and the mechanical properties of solids on the other. In the end, each topic grew and diverged into a separate book. The present volume is, therefore, an account of current understanding of the electron theory of metals, with particular reference to band structure, Fermi surfaces and transport properties. Although each chapter is quite long, and deals explicitly and in detail with a separate topic, considerable unity of approach has been achieved by interchange of manuscripts and many cross-references between chapters. For the authors are by no means a miscellaneous lot; at one time or another they have all been professional colleagues of Mott at Bristol or at Cambridge, and therefore share with him, and with one another, many scientific interests and points of view. They had no difficulty in agreeing upon a general plan for the book and writing our separate contributions in a co-operative spirit.
Author(s): J. M. Ziman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1969
Language: English
Pages: XXVIII; 433
City: Cambridge
Title Page
Preface
Table of Contents
Sir Nevill Mott
Publications of Professor N. F. Mott
1 Electronic structure of metals
1.1 Pseudism
1.2 Band-structure calculations
1.3 Analysis of N.F.E. band structures
1.4 Transition and noble metals
1.5 Other electronic properties of N.F.E. metals
1.6 Cohesion and structure
1.7 Landau quasi-particles
2 Electronic structure: the experimental results
2.1 Experimental methods
2.2 Magnetic phenomena
2.3 Non-magnetic phenomena
2.4 Summary and comparison of methods
2.5 The derivation of a Fermi surface from geometrical data
2.6 The alkalis
2.7 The noble metals
2.8 'Simple' polyvalent metals
2.9 Bismuth
2.10 Transition tnetals
3 Metallic electrons in a magnetic field
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The free electron
3.3 The Bloch electron
3.4. Spin-Orbit interaction
3.5 Magnetic breakdown
3.6 Green's function analysis of density of states
3.7 Level broadening
3.8 Magnetic properties of the conduction electron assembly
3.9 The Shoenberg effect
3.10 Transport
4 Transport properties: surface and size effects
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Internal scattering and surface scattering
4.3 D.C. size effects, H = 0
4.4 D.C. size effects, H <> 0
4.5 The anomalous skin effect
4.6 Cyclotron resonance
4.7 A.K.C.R. line-shapes, polarization effects, tipping effects
4.8 R.F. size effects
4.9 Some propagating modes
5 The ordinary transport properties of metals
5.1 Electron-phonon interaction: Bloch formulation
5.2 Rigid ions and portable pseudo-potentials
5.3 Screening the electron-phonon interaction
5.4 Vacancy scattering
5.5 Impurities
5.6 Extended imperfections: stacking faults and dislocations
5.7 The Boltzmann equation: 'ideal' resistivity
5.8 Heat conduction by electrons
5.9 Thermo-electric power: phonon drag
5.10 Thermo-electric power at high temperatures: anisotropy of tau
5.11 Impurity and imperfection scattering
6 Electronic transport properties of liquid metals
6.1 Some simple facts. . .
6.2 ... and simple theories
6.3 The N.F.E. model
6.4 Corrections to Ziiman's theory
6.5 Calculation of the resistivity
6.6 Derivatives of the resistivity
6.7 Extension of Ziman's theory to liquid alloys
6.8 The effect of magnetic field
6.9 The optical properties
6.10 Conclusions
7 Experimental studies of the structures of metals and alloys
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Stability of alloy structures
7.3 Alloy chemistry
7.4 Magnetic structures
7.5 Electron configuration
8 Transition metals. Electronic structure of the d-band. Its role in the crystalline and magnetic structures
8.1 Band structure of pure transitional metals
8.2 Cohesion and lattice structures in transitional metals
8.3 Magnetism of transitional metals
Author index and bibliography
Subject index
