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A. J. Dw: Solid State Physics. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffi, New Jersey, 1957. 540 pp., $12.00.
THE present generation of students studying the physical properties of solids has the advantage over students of a few years ago that excellent introductory textbooks are now available. Prior to SEITZ’S monumental book in 1940, the student had to extract an understanding of the behavior of solids from a handful of distinguished but highly specialized monographs. An analytical understanding of the physics of solids became possible by a much wider spectrum of students with the appearance in 1953 of KITTEL’S introductory text and the subsequent publication of several similar books. The book reviewed here belongs to the same class as KITTEL and should contribute to the broadening of interest and competence in solidstate physics. It is intended for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in engineering, physics, chemistry, and metallurgy. The first nine chapters of Dr. DEKKER’S book present the classical theory of crystals and include discussions of dislocations, alloys, ionic conductivity and diffusion, and ferroelectrics. Prerequisite to these discussions is a knowledge of statistical thermodynamics and of the quantized harmonic oscillator. Wave-mechanical concepts are not used, and subjects treated in this part of the book are accordingly not treated so deeply as those in the later chapters. The free-electron theory of metals is introduced in Chapter 9 and applied to electronemission processes. The Kronig-Penney model and Brillouin-zone theory are presented in Chapter 10. Subsequent chapters discuss conductivity in metals, electron distribution and transport processes in semiconductors and insulators, rectifiers and transistors, optical absorption, photoconductivity, luminescence, secondary electron emission, magnetic properties, and magnetic resonance. In the three-fifths of the book beginning with Chapter 9, wave mechanics is used without apology. Solid-state physics encompasses experimental
and theoretical tools almost as varied as those of all physics. A book which attempts to provide an introduction to such a broad subject is a perilous undertaking, and it is easy to find apparent shortcomings in such a book. The choice of material will please the electrical engineer, but will not be so satisfying to the other intended readers. For example, superconductivity is not discussed at all, and the subjects presented in the first part of the book are necessarily not treated deeply; the chief material for the metallurgist is in this part, and chemists and physicists may both regret that the repulsive forces in ionic crystals are explained only by the statement that “These forces, as other overlap forces, can best be discussed on the basis of wave mechanics, because of their nonclassical nature.” The reviewer would have preferred a more systematic treatment of excitons (which curiously are not indexed but are granted three or four pages) to the full chapter on secondary electron emission, which is detailed and in part devoted to speculative material. (It is nevertheless a very welcome chapter, since most other writers of solid-statephysics texts give no space at all to this intriguing subject.) One could have hoped for a more thorough treatment of the pn junction, especially since the book as a whole emphasizes processes which have applications in engineering electronics. There are many line drawings, but even more could have profitably been included in Chapters 9 and 10, which will be difficult chapters for nonmajors in physics. There are no photographs at all, and this fact is particularly unfortunate h the sections on dislocations and magnetic domains. Solid State Physics is clearly written and competently planned. Its choice of material and approach is sufficiently different from the other introductions to the physics of solids that it should be very useful as an undergraduate and graduate text and as a book for self-study. It deserves examination by any teacher planning a course in solids. R. L. SPROULL
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THE present generation of students studying the physical properties of solids has the advantage over students of a few years ago that excellent introductory textbooks are now available. Prior to SEITZ’S monumental book in 1940, the student had to extract an understanding of the behavior of solids from a handful of distinguished but highly specialized monographs. An analytical understanding of the physics of solids became possible by a much wider spectrum of students with the appearance in 1953 of KITTEL’S introductory text and the subsequent publication of several similar books. The book reviewed here belongs to the same class as KITTEL and should contribute to the broadening of interest and competence in solidstate physics. It is intended for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in engineering, physics, chemistry, and metallurgy. The first nine chapters of Dr. DEKKER’S book present the classical theory of crystals and include discussions of dislocations, alloys, ionic conductivity and diffusion, and ferroelectrics. Prerequisite to these discussions is a knowledge of statistical thermodynamics and of the quantized harmonic oscillator. Wave-mechanical concepts are not used, and subjects treated in this part of the book are accordingly not treated so deeply as those in the later chapters. The free-electron theory of metals is introduced in Chapter 9 and applied to electronemission processes. The Kronig-Penney model and Brillouin-zone theory are presented in Chapter 10. Subsequent chapters discuss conductivity in metals, electron distribution and transport processes in semiconductors and insulators, rectifiers and transistors, optical absorption, photoconductivity, luminescence, secondary electron emission, magnetic properties, and magnetic resonance. In the three-fifths of the book beginning with Chapter 9, wave mechanics is used without apology. Solid-state physics encompasses experimental
and theoretical tools almost as varied as those of all physics. A book which attempts to provide an introduction to such a broad subject is a perilous undertaking, and it is easy to find apparent shortcomings in such a book. The choice of material will please the electrical engineer, but will not be so satisfying to the other intended readers. For example, superconductivity is not discussed at all, and the subjects presented in the first part of the book are necessarily not treated deeply; the chief material for the metallurgist is in this part, and chemists and physicists may both regret that the repulsive forces in ionic crystals are explained only by the statement that “These forces, as other overlap forces, can best be discussed on the basis of wave mechanics, because of their nonclassical nature.” The reviewer would have preferred a more systematic treatment of excitons (which curiously are not indexed but are granted three or four pages) to the full chapter on secondary electron emission, which is detailed and in part devoted to speculative material. (It is nevertheless a very welcome chapter, since most other writers of solid-statephysics texts give no space at all to this intriguing subject.) One could have hoped for a more thorough treatment of the pn junction, especially since the book as a whole emphasizes processes which have applications in engineering electronics. There are many line drawings, but even more could have profitably been included in Chapters 9 and 10, which will be difficult chapters for nonmajors in physics. There are no photographs at all, and this fact is particularly unfortunate h the sections on dislocations and magnetic domains. Solid State Physics is clearly written and competently planned. Its choice of material and approach is sufficiently different from the other introductions to the physics of solids that it should be very useful as an undergraduate and graduate text and as a book for self-study. It deserves examination by any teacher planning a course in solids. R. L. SPROULL
103
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