Front Cover; Solid State Physics, Volume 18; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 18; Preface; Contents of Previous Volumes; Supplementary Monographs; Articles Planned for Future Volumes; Chapter 1. Energy Loss and Range of Energetic Neutral Atoms in Solids; I. Introduction; II. The Interatomic Potentials; III. Scattering Calculations; IV. Range-Energy Calculations; V. End Effects; VI. Elastic versus Inelastic Collisions; VII. Range-Energy Experiments; VIII. Scattering Experiments and Empirical Potentials; IX. Channeling and Superchanneling; Appendix.

Chapter 2. The Fundamental Optical Spectra of SolidsI. Introduction; II. One-Electron Spectra; III. Resonances; IV. Summary; V. Recent Developments; Chapter 3. Crystal Symmetry, Group Theory, and Band Structure Calculations; I. Introduction; II. The Algebra of Groups; III. The LCAO or Tight-Binding Approximation; IV. The Band Structure of Beta-Brass; V. The Band Structure of Tellurium; VI. The Band Structure of Silicon and Germanium; Chapter 4. Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of the Effects of Point Defects and Disorder on the Vibrations of Crystals-1; I. Introduction.

II. Dynamical Properties of Isolated Impurity AtomsIII. Dynamical Properties of Disordered Crystals; IV. Electrical Properties of Crystals and Defect Lattice Dynamics; V. Effects of Point Defects on the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Insulators; VI. The Scattering of Neutrons by Lattice Vibrations in Imperfect Crystals; VII. The Mossbauer Effect for an Impurity Nucleus; VIII. Optical Analogs of the Mössbauer Effect; Author Index; Subject Index.