Physics and Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Materials and Chemistry

   1. An Introduction to the Design of Low-Dimensional Solids

      • Jean Rouxel

      Pages 1-14

   2. Molybdenum and Tungsten Bronzes

      • Martha Greenblatt

      Pages 15-43

   3. Nanostructures of Low Dimensional Oxides: Nature and Role of Defects

      • M. Hervieu

      Pages 45-58

   4. Misfit Layer Compounds (MX)1+x(TX2)m M= Pb, Bi, Sn; T = Ti, V, Cr, Ta, Nb; X = S, Se; 0.08

      • Jean Rouxel, Alain Meerschaut

      Pages 59-70

   5. Clusters in Reduced Molybdenum and Tungsten Oxide and Sulfide Systems

      • Robert E. McCarley

      Pages 71-82

   6. New Materials From Reactions in Intermediate Temperature Molten Salts. Synthetic Methodologies for Multinary Solid State Chalcogenides

      • Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

      Pages 83-99

3. Introduction to Charge Density Waves, Spin Density Waves and Wigner Crystals

   1. Density Waves in Linear Chain Compounds

      • G. Grüner

      Pages 101-114

   2. Charge Density Waves in Quasi Two-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors — Molybdenum and Phosphate Tungsten Bronzes

      • Claire Schlenker

      Pages 115-139

   3. Organic Superconductors and Spin Density Waves

      • D. Jérome

      Pages 141-169

   4. Wigner Crystals

      • P. B. Littlewood, A. J. Millis, X. J. Zhu

      Pages 171-184

4. Structural Studies

   1. Structural and Dynamical Aspects of the Charge Density Wave Instability

      • J. P. Pouget

      Pages 185-217

   2. Incommensurately Modulated Structures of Inorganic Charge-Density-Wave Compounds

      • Sander van Smaalen

      Pages 219-228

   3. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy on Charge Density Wave and Related Materials

      • R. Wiesendanger

      Pages 229-239

   4. Interpreting Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy Images

      • M.-H. Whangbo, J. Ren, S. N. Magonov, H. Bengel

      Pages 241-253

5. Electronic Structures: Theory and Experiment

   1. The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides

      • P. A. Cox

      Pages 255-270

   2. Fermi Surface Nesting and Electronic Instabilities in Transition Metal Oxides and Bronzes

      • Enric Canadell, Myung-Hwan Whangbo

      Pages 271-283

   3. Structural and Electronic Instabilities of Transition Metal Chalcogenides

      • M.-H. Whangbo, D.-K. Seo, E. Canadell

      Pages 285-302

   4. Photoemission Studies in Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides

      • D. Malterre, M. Grioni, Y. Baer

      Pages 303-311

   5. Angle Resolved Photoemission and Resonant Photoemission Studies of Quasi Low-Dimensional Oxide Conductors

      • Kevin E. Smith, Klaus Breuer, Cristian Stagarescu, Martha Greenblatt, William McCarroll, Kandalam Ramanujachary

      Pages 313-326

The field of low-dimensional conductors has been very active for more than twenty years. It has grown continuously and both the inorganic and organic materials have remark­ able properties, such as charge and spin density waves and superconductivity. The discovery of superconductivity at high temperature in copper-based quasi two-dimensional conducting oxides nearly ten years ago has further enlarged the field and stimulated new research on inorganic conductors. It was obviously impossible to cover such a broad field in a ten day Institute and it seemed pertinent to concentrate on inorganic conductors, excluding the high Tc superconducting oxides. In this context, it was highly desirable to include both physics and chemistry in the same Institute in order to tighten or in some cases to establish links between physicists and chemists. This Advanced Study Institute is the continuation of a series of similar ones which have taken place every few years since 1974. 73 participants coming from 13 countries have taken part in this School at the beautiful site of the Centre de Physique des Houches in the Mont-Blanc mountain range. The scientific programme included more than forty lectures and seminars, two poster sessions and ten short talks. Several discussion sessions were organized for the evenings, one on New Materials, one on New Topics and one on the special problem of the Fermi and Luttinger liquids. The scientific activity was kept high from the beginning to the end of the Institute.

• Superconductor
• chemistry
• copper
• crystal
• metals
• microscopy
• molybdenum
• superconductivity
• transition metal

• CNRS and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

  Claire Schlenker

• CNRS, Grenoble, France

  Jean Dumas

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

  Martha Greenblatt

• University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

  Sander Smaalen

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