Short description The fascinating world of modern electronics is described using the authentic journals of important discoverers, presenting developments in solid state physics and material science in an exciting and entertaining way, comprehensible even for the interested layperson.
From the contents 1. Spectacular Advances 2. Well Ordered Lattice Structures in Crystals 3. Permanent Movement in the Crystal Lattice 4. Electrical Conductor or Insulator? 5. Metals Obey the Rules of Quantum Statistics 6. Less Can Be More: Semiconductors 7. Circling Electrons in High Magnetic Fields 8. The Winner: Superconductors 9. The Big Surprise: High-Temperature Superconductivity 10. Magnetism: Order Among the Elementary Magnets 11. Nanostructures: Superlattices, Quantum Wires, and Quantum Dots 12. Defects in the Crystal Lattice: Useful or Harmful?
