Physics of Disordered Materials: An Advanced Textbook

Written by world-renowned authorities in the field, this is the first textbook to cover this important intersection of materials science and physics. Following a section on characterizing disorder, the book goes on to discuss glasses and the glass transition, the modeling of amorphous materials, atomic vibrations and transport, electronic properties, defects and charge transport. Further sections cover photonics and optics, and the whole is rounded off with applications. Additional web-based material is available to support student learning as well as provide required data.

Stephen Elliott is Professor of Chemical Physics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has published over 270 papers on amorphous materials, and published three books. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of Physics at +ëcole Polytechnique in Paris, France, and has held visiting positions in Japan, France, Belgium and India.

David Drabold is Distinguished Professor of Physics at Ohio University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics. He has published over 130 papers and co-edited one book, Theory of Defects in Semiconductors (Springer, 2006). He has held visiting positions at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.