This study book by Mark Fox provides an up-to-date overview of the optical physics of solids. The second edition includes extensive improvements and new chapters on spin control, quantum dots, plasmonics, negative refraction, carbon nanostructures, and NV centers in diamond. It is aimed at physicists, but is also valuable for electronics engineers, materials scientists, and physical chemists.
Contents
The second edition covers optical processes in solid materials such as insulators, semiconductors, and metals. After an overview of classical optics, it presents a quantum-theoretical approach to optical transition rates. In addition to crystalline materials, it also discusses glasses and molecular substances. The text includes clear explanations, examples, summaries, and practice problems.
New additions include:
- Optical spin control
- Quantum dots
- Plasmonics
- Negative refraction
- Carbon nanostructures (graphene, nanotubes, and fullerenes)
- NV centers in diamond
Specifications
- Author: Mark Fox (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield)
- Series: Oxford Master Series in Physics, Vol. 3
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication date: 2010-03-25
- Number of pages: 418
- ISBN: 9780199573370
- Subject: Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)
- BISAC: SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter
About the author
Mark Fox is a professor of physics at the University of Sheffield. He began his research career in Oxford and worked, among other places, at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since 1998 he has been affiliated with Sheffield, where from 2006 he has held the chair.