Orbital Approach to the Electronic Structure of Solids

• Presents an original approach to the electronic structure of solids and outlines the strong ties between molecules and solids
• Illustrates different concepts and main ideas with reference to real materials
• Provides useful learning tool for students with different backgrounds (physics, chemistry, materials science)
• Will appeal to both students and researchers willing to understand results of quantitative calculations or to rationalize experimental observations in solid state and materials science
• Richly illustrated, with ample tutorial material
• Solutions to the exercises provided

Readership: Final year undergraduates, graduates and university teachers in chemistry, physics and materials science. Materials science researchers, as well as chemists and physicists working in materials science and related areas.

Enric Canadell, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Marie-Liesse Doublet, Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier, and Christophe Iung, Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier

Enric Canadell was educated at the Universities of Barcelona and Autónoma de Madrid, conducted research at the Universities of Barcelona, Chicago and Paris -Sud Orsay and since 1996 is Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC). He is mostly interested in the development of ideas to relate the structure and properties of solids. In 1995 was awarded the Rochat-Julliard Prize of the Académie des Sciences de Paris for work on the electronic structure of low dimensional solids.

Marie-Liesse Doublet was educated at Université de Paris-Sud Orsay and carried out research at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institut des Matériaux de Nantes and Université de Montpellier 2 where she is now Directeur de Recherches (CNRS). Her research work deals with the electronic structure of solids with a special interest for energy storage materials.

Christophe Iung studied at École Normale Supérieure de St Cloud and holds a Ph. D. from Université de Paris-Sud Orsay. He is now Full Professor and Vice-President of the Education Council of the University of Montpellier 2. His main research interest is in the field of quantum molecular dynamics.

1: Elementary introduction to the transport properties of solids
2: Electronic structure of molecules: use of the symmetry
3: Electronic Structure of One-dimensional Systems: Basic Notions
4: Electronic First-order Peierls distortions in periodic 1D systems
5: Application to trans-polyacetylene
6: Handling the symmetry in 1D compounds
7: Application to polyacene
8: Electronic structure of selected inorganic chains
9: Electronic structure of 2D and 3D systems
10: Density of States
11: Fermi surface and Low Dimensional Metals
12: Electron repulsion