Crystals, Electrons, Transistors (Aip Translation Series)
Contributors: Michael Eckert (Editor); Helmut Schubert (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Published: May 8, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780883187197
Subjects: Crystallography; Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; Electrochemistry & magnetochemistry; Science/Mathematics; Science; Optics; Physics; Technology / Optics
First sentence: IN THE 18TH CENTURY the Dutchman Pieter van Musschenbroek ( 1692-1761) was investigating phenomena such as thermal expansion, phosphorescence, magnetism, and electricitysubjects which would characterize him today as a physicist, or more precisely, as a solid-state physicist.