One-dimensional metals : conjugated polymers, organic crystals, carbon nanotubes and graphene /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Roth, S. (Siegmar), 1940- (Συγγραφέας), Carroll, David L. (David Loren) (Συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Stuttgart : Wiley-VCH, 2015.
• Έκδοση: Third completely revised and enlarged edition.
• Θέματα: One-dimensional conductors.; Conducting polymers.; Superconductivity.; Molecular electronics.; SCIENCE > Physics > Electricity.; SCIENCE > Physics > Electromagnetism.; Electronic books.

Low-dimensional solids are of fundamental interest in materials science due to their anisotropic properties. Written not only for experts in the field, this book explains the important concepts behind their physics and surveys the most interesting one-dimensional systems and discusses their present...

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• Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Dimensionality; 1.2 Approaching One-Dimensionality from Outside and from Inside; 1.3 Dimensionality of Carbon Solids; 1.3.1 Three-Dimensional Carbon: Diamond; 1.3.2 Two-Dimensional Carbon: Graphite; 1.3.3 One-Dimensional Carbon: Cumulene, Polycarbyne, Polyene; 1.3.4 Zero-Dimensional Carbon: Fullerene; 1.3.5 What about Something in between?; 1.4 Peculiarities of One-Dimensional Systems; References.
• Chapter 2 One-Dimensional Substances2.1 A15 Compounds; 2.2 Krogmann Salts; 2.3 Alchemists' Gold; 2.4 Bechgaard Salts and Other Charge Transfer Compounds; 2.5 Polysulfurnitride; 2.6 Phthalocyanines and Other Macrocycles; 2.7 Transition Metal Chalcogenides and Halides; 2.8 Conducting Polymers; 2.9 Halogen-Bridged Mixed-Valence Transition Metal Complexes; 2.10 Miscellaneous; 2.10.1 Poly-deckers; 2.10.2 Polycarbenes; 2.11 Isolated Nanowires; 2.11.1 Templates and Filled Pores; 2.11.2 Asymmetric Growth Using Catalysts; 2.11.3 Carbon Nanotubes; 2.11.4 Inorganic Semiconductor Quantum Wires.
• 2.11.5 Metal Nanowires2.12 Summary; References; Chapter 3 One-Dimensional Solid-State Physics; 3.1 Crystal Lattice and Translation Symmetry; 3.1.1 Classifying the Lattice; 3.1.2 Using a Coordinate System; 3.1.3 The One-Dimensional Lattice; 3.1.4 Carbon Nanotubes as One-Dimensional Lattices; 3.2 Reciprocal Lattice, Reciprocal Space; 3.2.1 Describing Objects Using Momentum and Energy; 3.2.2 Constructing the Reciprocal Lattice; 3.2.3 Applying This to One Dimension; 3.3 The Dynamic Crystal and Dispersion Relations; 3.3.1 Crystal Vibrations and Phonons; 3.3.2 Quantum Considerations with Phonons.
• 3.3.3 Counting Phonons3.4 Phonons and Electrons Are Different; 3.4.1 Electron Waves; 3.4.2 Electron Statistics; 3.4.3 The Fermi Surface; 3.4.4 The Free Electron Model; 3.4.5 Nearly Free Electron Model; Energy Bands, Energy Gap, and Density of States; 3.4.6 The Molecular Orbital Approach; 3.4.7 Returning to Carbon Nanotubes; 3.5 Summary; References; Chapter 4 Electron-Phonon Coupling and the Peierls Transition; 4.1 The Peierls Distortion; 4.2 Phonon Softening and the Kohn Anomaly; 4.3 Fermi Surface Warping; 4.4 Beyond Electron-Phonon Coupling; References.
• Chapter 5 Conducting Polymers: Solitons and Polarons5.1 General Remarks; 5.2 Conjugated Double Bonds; 5.3 A Molecular Picture; 5.3.1 Bonding and Antibonding States; 5.3.2 The Polyenes; 5.3.3 Translating to Bloch's Theorem; 5.4 Conjugational Defects; 5.5 Solitons; 5.6 Generation of Solitons; 5.7 Nondegenerate Ground-State Polymers: Polarons; 5.8 Fractional Charges; 5.9 Soliton Lifetime; References; Chapter 6 Conducting Polymers: Conductivity; 6.1 General Remarks on Conductivity; 6.2 Measuring Conductivities; 6.2.1 Simple Conductivity; 6.2.2 Conductivity in a Magnetic Field.