Point Defects in Solids

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Statistical Thermodynamics of Point Defects in Crystals

   • A. D. Franklin

   Pages 1-101

3. Ionic Conductivity (Including Self-Diffusion)

   • Robert G. Fuller

   Pages 103-150

4. Defect Mobilities in Ionic Crystals Containing Aliovalent Ions

   • A. S. Nowick

   Pages 151-200

5. Defect Creation by Radiation in Polar Crystals

   • E. Sonder, W. A. Sibley

   Pages 201-290

6. Properties of Electron Centers

   • Clifford C. Klick

   Pages 291-325

7. Hole Centers in Halide Lattices

   • M. N. Kabler

   Pages 327-380

8. Color Centers in Simple Oxides

   • A. E. Hughes, B. Henderson

   Pages 381-490

9. Conduction by Polarons in Ionic Crystals

   • Frederick C. Brown

   Pages 491-549

10. Back Matter

    Pages 551-556

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Crystal defects can no longer be thought of as a scientific curiosity, but must be considered an important aspect of solid-state science. This is largely because many of the more interesting properties of crystalline solids are disproportionately dominated by effects due to a tiny concentration of imperfections in an otherwise perfect lattice. The physics of such lattice defects is not only of significance in a great variety of applications, but is also interesting in its own right. Thus, an extensive science of point defects and dislocations has been constructed during the past two and a half decades. Stimulated by the technological and scientific interest in plasticity, there have appeared in recent years rather a large number of books dealing with dislocations; in the case of point defects, however, only very few broad and extensive treatments have been published. Thus, there are few compre­ hensive, tutorial sources for the scientist or engineer whose research ac­ tivities are affected by point defect phenomena, or who might wish to enter the field. It is partially to fill this need that the present treatise aims.

• crystal
• diffusion
• electron
• physics
• plasticity

• Department of Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

  James H. Crawford, Lawrence M. Slifkin

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