David EminCambridge University Press, 11/29/2012EAN 9780521519069, ISBN10: 0521519063Hardcover, 227 pages, 24.8 x 17.6 x 1.8 cmLanguage: EnglishEmin provides experimental and theoretical graduate students and researchers with a distinctive introduction to the principles governing polaron science. The fundamental physics is emphasized and mathematical formalism is avoided. The book gives a clear guide to how different types of polaron form and the measurements used to identify them. Analyses of four diverse physical problems illustrate polaron effects producing dramatic physical phenomena. The first part of the book describes the principles governing polaron and bipolaron formation in different classes of materials. The second part emphasizes distinguishing electronic-transport and optical phenomena through which polarons manifest themselves. The book concludes by extending polaron concepts to address critical aspects of four multifaceted electronic and atomic problems: large bipolarons' superconductivity, electronic switching of small-polaron semiconductors, electronically stimulated atomic desorption and diffusion of light interstitial atoms.PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Succinct overviewPart I. Polaron Formation2. Electron-phonon interactions3. Weak-coupling polaronscarrier-induced softening4. Strong-couplingself-trapping5. Dopant- and defect-related small polarons6. Molecular polarons7. Bipolarons8. Magnetic polarons and colossal magneto-resistancePart II. Polaron Properties9. Optical properties10. Large-polaron transport11. Small-polaron transport12. Polarons' Seebeck coefficients13. Polarons' Hall EffectPart III. Extending Polaron Concept14. Superconductivity of large bipolarons15. Non-Ohmic hopping conduction and electronic switching16. Electronically stimulated desorption of atoms from surfaces17. Hopping of light atomsReferencesIndex.
