About the Book

Contents

1. Bonding in Solids, 2. Crystallography and Crystal Structures, 3. X-Ray Diffraction, 4. Defects in Crystals, 5. Elements of Statistical Mechanics, 6. Principles of Quantum Mechanics, 7. Band Theory of Solids, 8. Semiconductor Physics, 9. Physics of Semiconductor Devices, 10. Dielectric Properties, 11. Magnetic properties, 12. Lasers

About the Author

Sri. T. Bhima Sankaram is a retired professor from department of Physics, Osmania University. He was associated with Osmania University as a student, a research scholar and a teacher for over forty years. As a teacher, he had genuine interest in his students and  his commitment to the students had always been useful to them. He was instrumental along with Dr.G.Prasad in establishing Impedance spectroscopy as a tool for the characterization of ferroelectric ceramics and dielectrics. He was also instrumental in establishing the measurement and study of magneto- electric signal in ferroelectro-magnetic- ceramics in Osmania University. He was a part of many research schemes in the above fields. He, along with his collaborators published several research papers in international journals of repute and the publications are well recognized and referred internationally. He was the founder Principal of Swarna Bharathi College of Engineering, Khammam and co- participant with its chairman Prof S.Pullaiah in the  establishment of that Institute. He has great fascination for writing several interesting topics and this is the motivation for the present edition.