Author : Wai-Yim Ching
Release : 2012-05-17
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Electronic Structure Methods for Complex Materials by : Wai-Yim Ching
Download or read book Electronic Structure Methods for Complex Materials written by Wai-Yim Ching. This book was released on 2012-05-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Density functional theory (DFT) has blossomed in the past few decades into a powerful tool that is used by experimentalists and theoreticians alike. This book highlights the extensive contributions that the DFT-based OLCAO method has made to progress in this field, and it demonstrates its competitiveness for performing ab initio calculations on large and complex models of practical systems. A brief historical account and introduction to the elements of the theory set the stage for discussions on semiconductors, insulators, crystalline metals and alloys, complex crystals, non-crystalline solids and liquids, microstructure containing systems and those containing impurities, defects, and surfaces, biomolecular systems, and the technique of ab initio core level spectroscopy calculation.