Publisher's Synopsis
This book describes the recent evolution of solid-state physics, which is primarily dedicated to examining the behavior of solids at the atomic scale. It also presents various state-of-the-art reviews and original contributions related to solid-state sciences. The book consists of four sections, namely, solid-state behavior, metastable materials, spintronics materials, and mechanics of deformable bodies. The authors' contributions relating to solid-state behavior deal with the performance of solid matters pertaining to quantum mechanics, physical metallurgy, and crystallography. The authors' contributions relating to metastable materials demonstrate the behavior of amorphous/bulk metallic glasses and some nonequilibrium materials. The authors' contributions relating to spintronic materials explain the principles and equations underlying the physics, transport, and dynamics of spin in solid-state systems. The authors' contributions relating to the mechanics of deformable bodies deal with applications of numeric and analytic solutions/models for solid-state structures under deformation. Key Features:
- Issues in solid-state physics, Lagrangian quantum mechanics
- Quantum and thermal behavior of HCP crystals
- Thermoelectric properties of semiconductors
- Bulk metallic glasses and metastable atomic density determination
- Applications of spintronics and Heusler alloys
- 2D elastostatic, mathematical modeling and dynamic stiffness methods on deformable bodies.
