Elementary Excitations in Solids: A Special Volume in Honour of Professor Minko Balkanski on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

By Birman, Joseph L.; Sebenne, Claude

1992 first edition North-Holland / Elsevier (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 6 1/4 x 9 inches tall blue cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), orange and yellow lettering to front cover and spine, ix, 426 pp. Prior owner name and date to top margin of blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. 

Minko Balkanski, together with his colleagues, has made pioneering contributions to many areas of solid state physics. They include the role of excitons in energy transport, the first observation of localized vibrational modes in solids, surface physics of semiconductors, magneto-optical phenomena in semiconductors and superionic conductors. This book containing articles by his friends and colleagues has been put together to honor his 65th birthday.

Contents:

• Preface. Part 1 - Electrons and Excitons in Semiconductors. 1. Electrons in semiconductors: empirical and ab initio theories (M.L. Cohen). 2. Exotic excitons (J.L. Birman). 3. Impurity and defect induced metastabilities in tetrahedral semiconductors (D.J. Chadi). 4. Spin density waves in the itinerant electron systems on a two-dimensional lattice (M. Ichimura, M. Fujita and K. Nakao). 5. Noncavity electron paramagnetic resonance in high magnetic field (M. Grynberg). 6. Nonlinear optics of semiconductors: self-induced transparency revisited (O.C. Martin, S.V. Branis and J.L. Birman). 7. High-pressure properties of binary nitrides (J.T. Devreese, P.E. Van Camp and V.E. Van Doren).
  
• Part II - Phonons in Semiconductors. 8. Theory of lattice dynamics and Raman spectra of AiGaAs heterostructures (C. Molteni et al.). 9. Raman intensity profiles and crystal structures (S. Nakashima). 10. Enhanced backscattering of light from the surface of a liquid metal (A.A. Maradudin and A.R. McGurn). 11. Vibrational properties of mixed crystals (R. Beserman). 12. Raman study of CW laser-induced reversible changes in a-Si:H films on quartz and sapphire substrates: temperature dependence (K.P. Jain et al.).
  
• Part III - Electron-phonon Interactions. 13. Effect of electronic excitations on light scattering and on phonon self-energies in metals and doped semiconductors (M. Cardona and I.P. Ipatova). 14. The Jensen-Feynman inequality for path integrals extended to particles in a magnetic field: application to a H-atom in a magnetic field (J.T. Devreese and F. Brosens). 15. The saga of bound phonons (G. Martinez). 16. Amplifying instabilities in semiconductors arising from the interaction of surface space charge waves and optical phonons (R.F. Wallis and B.G. Martin). 17. Studies on the superconductivity of La 2-x Sr x CU0 4 based on the electron-phonon mechanism (H. Ushio and H. Kamimura).
  
• Part IV - Intercalation. 18. C 60 -related balls and fibers (M.S. Dresselhaus et al.) Subject index.