Most textbooks in the field are either too
advanced for students or don’t adequately cover current
research topics. Bridging this gap, Electronic
Structure of Materials helps advanced
undergraduate and graduate students understand
electronic structure methods and enables them to use
these techniques in their work. Developed from the
author’s lecture notes, this classroom-tested book takes
a microscopic view of materials as composed of
interacting electrons and nuclei. It explains all the
properties of materials in terms of basic quantities of
electrons and nuclei, such as electronic charge, mass,
and atomic number. Based on quantum mechanics, this
first-principles approach does not have any adjustable
parameters. The first half of the text presents the
fundamentals and methods of electronic structure. Using
numerous examples, the second half illustrates
applications of the methods to various materials,
including crystalline solids, disordered substitutional
alloys, amorphous solids, nanoclusters, nanowires,
graphene, topological insulators, battery materials,
spintronic materials, and materials under extreme
conditions. Every chapter starts at a basic level and
gradually moves to more complex topics, preparing
students for more advanced work in the field.
End-of-chapter exercises also help students get a sense
of numbers and visualize the physical picture associated
with the problem. Students are encouraged to practice
with the electronic structure calculations via
user-friendly software packages.
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