Front Cover; Solid State Physics, Volume 1; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 1; Articles Planned for Future Volumes; Preface; Chapter 1. Methods of the One-Electron Theory of Solids; I. Introduction; II. The Fock Equation; III. Historical Survey of the One-Electron Method; IV. General Properties of Crystal Orbitals; V. Brillouin Zones; VI. The Mathieu Problem and Energy Bands in Crystals; VII. The Tight Binding Method; VIII. The Cellular Method; I X. Variational Methods for Periodic Lattices; X. The Orthogonalised Plane-Wave Method; XI. Other Crystal Orbital Methods.

XII. The Heitler-London MethodXIII. Exchange Interaction in the One-Electron Approximation; Chapter 2. Qualitative Analysis of the Cohesion in Metals; I. Introduction; II. Preliminary Observations; III. The Structure and Width of Separated p and d Bands; IV. Overlapping Bands; V. Interpretation of the Cohesive Energies of Metals; VI. Summary; Chapter 3. The Quantum Defect Method; I. Introduction; II. The One-Electron Potential and the Hartree-Fock Equation; III. Fundamental Features of the Quantum Defect Method-the Work of Kuhn and Van Vleck; IV. Calculation of Energy Bands with QDM.

V. Proof of the Sufficiency of the Assumptions of QDMVI. The Extrapolated Quantum Defect and the WKB Justification of QDM; VII. Extrapolation at Low Energies-the?-Defect; VIII. Corrections for Core Polarization, Overlap. and Valence Electron Inter- action in Multivalent Atoms; IX. Correlation and Exchange Interaction Between Valence and Core Electrons; X. Quantum Defect Data for the Alkali Metals; XI. Results of Band Calculations with QDM for the Alkali Metals; XII. Acknowledgment; Chapter 4. The Theory of Order-Disorder Transitions in Alloys; I. Introduction.

II. Theory of the Order-Disorder Transition in AlloysIII. Influence of Order on Electrical Properties; IV. Influence of Order-Disorder on Magnetic Properties; V. Influence of Order on Mechanical Properties; VI. Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5. Valence Semiconductors. Germanium and Silicon; I. Elements of Semiconductor Theory; II. Properties of the Crystal; III. Conduction Phenomena; IV. Recombination and Trapping of Carriers; Chapter 6. Electron Interaction in Metals; I. Introduction; II. The Collective Description of Electron Interaction.

III. The Influence of Electron Interactions on Various Metallic PropertiesIV. The Excitation of Plasma Oscillations in Solids; V. The Electron-Lattice Interaction; VI. Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index.