Electron theory in alloy design
By: edited by D. G. Pettifor and A. H. Cottrell.
Contributors: Pettifor, D. G. 1945-; Cottrell, Alan Howard, Sir.; Institute of Materials (Great Britain)
Publisher: Institute of Materials
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Alloys
Table of contents: title: Note on the Choice of Units; title: 1. Introduction / Alan Cottrell; title: 2. Modern Electron Theory / M. W. Finnis; title: 3. Nearly-Free-Electron Approximation: Text-Book Physics or a Tool for Research? / Jurgen Hafner; title: 4. The Tight Binding Approximation: Concepts and Predictions / D. G. Pettifor; title: 5. Order and Phase Stability in Alloys / Francois Ducastelle; title: 6. Point, Line and Planar Defects / A. T. Paxton; title: 7. Mechanical Properties of Metals at the Nanometre Scale / A. P. Sutton, J. B. Pethica, H. Rafii-Tabar and J. A. Nieminen; title: 8. Permanent Magnets / R. Coehoorn; title: 9. Magnetic Layered Structures / D. M. Edwards; title: 10. Future Directions / Alan Cottrell; title: Appendix A.1. Green functions; title: Appendix A.2. Dirac notation; title: Appendix A.3. Quantum mechanical methods for periodic systems; title: Appendix A.4. Ising model.