THE PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

Cahn, R.W. (1994) The place of atomic order in the physics of solids and in metallurgy, in Physics of New Materials, ed. Fujita, F.E. (Springer, Berlin) p. 179. (1998) Second, updated edition. 

The first, X-ray diffraction results obtained favor the T conformation. In collaboration with the Laboratory of the Physics of Solids at the University of Lille, we have undertaken an initial series of experiments that concern the structures of oligosaccharides of low molecular weight that exist in complete glycans, as prepared from glycoprotein-osis urines or by chemical and enzymic splitting of different glycans. 

To conclude, it is probably an understatement to say that, even if the Integral Equation Theories provide, for a given potential, results much faster than simulation methods, the advances in this field progress, however, more slowly than these of its sister method. But, where there is a will, there is a way. Our basic understanding of the liquid state is now at least comparable with our understanding of the physics of solids. 

However, such electron transfer can hardly be called a chemical reaction in the full sense of this term rather it is closer to the class of tunneling phenomena in the physics of solids and electronics. A chemical reaction, by definition, must include the reconstruction of molecules, the spatial rearrangement of atoms, and changes of lengths and angles of valence bonds the definition simply does not apply to small shifts over distances of the order of the zero-point vibration amplitude. 

In essence, the goal of this review is to describe the evolution of notions about tunneling, from the Gamov one-dimension model potential barrier penetration to multidimensional quantum motion with account for an active role of the medium. Such evolution goes on in various branches of modern chemical physics and the physics of solids. Therefore, the analysis of the common features of developing theories seems timely and important. 

The Physics of Solids and Fluids, with Recent Developments. By P. P. Ewald, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stuttgart Th. Poschl, Professor of General Mechanics and Hydromechanics at Karlsruhe and L. Prandtl, Professor of Applied Mechanics, and Director of the Aerodynamical Institute at Gottingen. Translated by John Dougall, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., and W. M. Deans, M.A., B.Sc. With 322 figures. 17s. 6d. net. 

T. Engel and G. Ertl. in D. P. Woodruff, editor, The Physics of Solid Surfaces and Heterogeneous Catalysis, volume four, page 73. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1982. 

Due to the weak binding of physisorbed particles to substrates, the application of low temperatures is indispensable to stabilize mono- and multilayer films. Principles of low-temperature technologies can be found in Refs. 290, 296, and 375. A general introduction to the physics of solid surfaces and physisorption is provided in Ref. 393, experimental details are contained in Ref. 383, and both experimental and theoretical aspects are discussed in Ref. 202. 

No previous knowledge of polymers is assumed in this book which provides a general introduction to the physics of solid polymers. 

With an approach appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, materials science and chemistry, the book includes many worked examples and problems with solutions. It will provide a firm foundation for the study of the physics of solid polymers. 

Until recently, the most successful description of the properties of solids (including semiconductors) has been provided by the band theory, which still dominates the physics of solids. Nevertheless, it is clear that the most universal approach is that based on the general theory of chemical bonds in crystals, in which details of the electron distributions between atoms and of the wave functions appear quite explicitly. 

Bleckwedel, A., and A. Eichler, 1981, in Proc. Int. Symp. on the Physics of Solids at High Pressure (North-Holland, Amsterdam) p. 323. 

Grodsky does suggest many interesting analogies between known processes in various physical systems, for example, the physics of solids. 

The term piezoelectric was borrowed from the physics of solids by analogy to the piezoelectric effect in crystals without center of symmetry. As a rule, the piezoelectric polarization manifests itself as a charge on the surfaces of a crystal due to a translational deformation, e.g. compression or extension. Piezo-effects are also characteristic of polar liquid crystalline phases, e.g., of the chiral smectic C phase. The polarization, we are interested now, is caused by the mechanical curvature (or flexion) of the director field, and, following De Gennes, we call it flexoelectric. 

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