I hope this book will be useful to at least two groups of individuals: the nonspecialist reader with a general knowledge of solid-state science and seeking an i

In 1879, while a graduate student under Henry Rowland at the Physics Department of The Johns Hopkins University, Edwin Herbert Hall discovered what is now unive

The transport of electric charge through most materials is well described in terms of their electronic band structure. The present book deals with two cases whe

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