Crystal Field Handbook
Cambridge University Press, 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521039369, ISBN10: 0521039363
Paperback, 304 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
This book, first published in 2000, is based on the modern conceptual understanding of crystal fields. It provides readers with clear instructions and a set of computer programs for the phenomenological analysis of energy spectra of magnetic ions in solids. The text clarifies several issues that have historically produced confusion in this area, particularly the effects of covalency and ligand polarization on the energy spectra of magnetic ions. Readers are shown how to employ a hierarchy of parametrized models to extract as much information as possible from observed lanthanide and actinide spectra. This book of crystal field theory describes all of the available phenomenological models, together with the conceptual and computational tools necessary for their use. It will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers working in the development of opto-electronic systems and magnetic materials.
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
1. Crystal field splitting mechanisms D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
2. Empirical crystal fields D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
3. Fitting crystal field parameters D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
4. Lanthanide and actinide optical spectra G. K. Liu
5. Superposition model D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
6. Effects of electron correlation on crystal field splitting M. F. Reid and D. J. Newman
7. Ground state splittings in S-state ions D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
8. Invariants and moments Y. Y. Yeung
9. Semiclassical model K. S. Chan
10. Transition intensities M. F. Reid
Appendix 1. Point symmetry D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
Appendix 2. QBASIC programs D. J. Newman and Betty Ng
Appendix 3. Accessible program packages Y. Y. Yeung, M. F. Reid and D. J. Newman
Appendix 4. Computer package CST Cz. Rudowicz
Bibliography
Index.