Ebook: Physics and Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors

The field of low-dimensional conductors has been very active for more than twenty years. It has grown continuously and both the inorganic and organic materials have remark­ able properties, such as charge and spin density waves and superconductivity. The discovery of superconductivity at high temperature in copper-based quasi two-dimensional conducting oxides nearly ten years ago has further enlarged the field and stimulated new research on inorganic conductors. It was obviously impossible to cover such a broad field in a ten day Institute and it seemed pertinent to concentrate on inorganic conductors, excluding the high Tc superconducting oxides. In this context, it was highly desirable to include both physics and chemistry in the same Institute in order to tighten or in some cases to establish links between physicists and chemists. This Advanced Study Institute is the continuation of a series of similar ones which have taken place every few years since 1974. 73 participants coming from 13 countries have taken part in this School at the beautiful site of the Centre de Physique des Houches in the Mont-Blanc mountain range. The scientific programme included more than forty lectures and seminars, two poster sessions and ten short talks. Several discussion sessions were organized for the evenings, one on New Materials, one on New Topics and one on the special problem of the Fermi and Luttinger liquids. The scientific activity was kept high from the beginning to the end of the Institute.

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Materials and Chemistry: An Introduction to the Design of Lowdimensional Solids; J. Rouxel.Molybdenum and TungstenBronzes: Lowdimensional Metals with Unusual Properties; M.Greenblatt.Nanostructures of Lowdimensional Oxides: Nature and Role of Defects M. Hervieu. Misfit Layer Compounds (MX)_1+x(TX)_2m M=Pb, Bi, Sn; T=Ti, V, Cr, Ta, Nb; X=S, Se, 0.08 < ?Y/Y? < 0.28; n = 1, 2, 3; J. Rouxel, A.Meerschaut. Clusters in Reduced Molybdenum and Tungsten Oxideand Sulfide Systems; R.E. McCarley.New Materials from Reactions inIntermediate Temperature Molten Salts: Synthetic Methodologies for Multinary Solid State Chalcogenides; M.G. Kanatzidis.Introduction to Charge Density Waves, Spin Density Waves and WignerCrystals: Density Waves in Solids; G. Gr?ner.ChargeDensity Waves in Quasi Two Dimensional Conductors: Molybdenum and Phosphate Tungsten Bronzes; C. Schlenker. Organic Superconductors and Spin Density Waves; D. J?rome. Wigner Crystals; P.B. Littlewood; et al.Structural Studies: Structural and Dynamical Aspects of the Charge Density Wave Instability; J.P.Pouget. Incommensurately Modulated Structuresof Inorganic Charge Density Wave Compounds; S. van Smaalen. Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy on Charge Density Wave and Related Materials; R. Wiesendanger. Interpreting Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy Images; M.H. Whangbo, J. Ren.ElectronicStructures: Theory and Experiment: The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides; P.A. Cox. Fermi Surface Nesting and Electronic Instabilities in Transition Metal Oxides and Bronzes; E. Canadell, M.H. Whangbo. Structural and Electronic Instabilities of Transition Metal Chacogenides; M.H.Whangbo, et al. Photoemission Studies in Transition Metal Chalcogenides; D.Malterre, et al.Angle Resolved Photoemissionand Resonant Photoemission Studies of Quasi Lowdimensional OxideConductors: Fermi Surface and Defects; K.E. Smith, et al. Fermi and Luttinger Liquids in Lowdimensional Metals; C. Castellani, C.DiCastro.Thermal Properties and Excitations:Thermal LatticeFluctuations in Quasi Onedimensional Conductors: OpticalExperiments; L. Degiorgi, et al. Elastic and Thermal Properties of Lowdimensional Conductors; J.W. Brill. Glassy Behavior and Metastability in the Charge or Spin Density Wave State; K.Biljakovic.Dynamics of Charge and Spin Density Waves: NonlinearTransport, Dislocations, and Plasticity:Introduction to ChargeDensity Wave Transport: Basic Phenomena and Models; P. Monceau. Theory of Charge and Spin Density Wave Transport; W.Wonneberger.Dislocations in the Charge Density Wave State ofNobium Triselenide:I Phase Slip Properties: II Bulk Charge Density Wave Transport; J.C. Gill. Charge Density Wave Dynamics in the Blue Bronzes A_0.30MoO₃; (A = K, Rb); J. Dumas. Photoinduced Properties of Charge Density Wave Materials; G.Mihaly. 2 additional articles. Index.

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Materials and Chemistry: An Introduction to the Design of Lowdimensional Solids; J. Rouxel.Molybdenum and TungstenBronzes: Lowdimensional Metals with Unusual Properties; M.Greenblatt.Nanostructures of Lowdimensional Oxides: Nature and Role of Defects M. Hervieu. Misfit Layer Compounds (MX)_1+x(TX)_2m M=Pb, Bi, Sn; T=Ti, V, Cr, Ta, Nb; X=S, Se, 0.08 < ?Y^{/Y? < 0.28; n = 1, 2, 3; J. Rouxel, A.Meerschaut. Clusters in Reduced Molybdenum and Tungsten Oxideand Sulfide Systems; R.E. McCarley.New Materials from Reactions inIntermediate Temperature Molten Salts: Synthetic Methodologies for Multinary Solid State Chalcogenides; M.G. Kanatzidis.Introduction to Charge Density Waves, Spin Density Waves and WignerCrystals: Density Waves in Solids; G. Gr?ner.ChargeDensity Waves in Quasi Two Dimensional Conductors: Molybdenum and Phosphate Tungsten Bronzes; C. Schlenker. Organic Superconductors and Spin Density Waves; D. J?rome. Wigner Crystals; P.B. Littlewood; et al.Structural Studies: Structural and Dynamical Aspects of the Charge Density Wave Instability; J.P.Pouget. Incommensurately Modulated Structuresof Inorganic Charge Density Wave Compounds; S. van Smaalen. Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy on Charge Density Wave and Related Materials; R. Wiesendanger. Interpreting Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy Images; M.H. Whangbo, J. Ren.ElectronicStructures: Theory and Experiment: The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides; P.A. Cox. Fermi Surface Nesting and Electronic Instabilities in Transition Metal Oxides and Bronzes; E. Canadell, M.H. Whangbo. Structural and Electronic Instabilities of Transition Metal Chacogenides; M.H.Whangbo, et al. Photoemission Studies in Transition Metal Chalcogenides; D.Malterre, et al.Angle Resolved Photoemissionand Resonant Photoemission Studies of Quasi Lowdimensional OxideConductors: Fermi Surface and Defects; K.E. Smith, et al. Fermi and Luttinger Liquids in Lowdimensional Metals; C. Castellani, C.DiCastro.Thermal Properties and Excitations:Thermal LatticeFluctuations in Quasi Onedimensional Conductors: OpticalExperiments; L. Degiorgi, et al. Elastic and Thermal Properties of Lowdimensional Conductors; J.W. Brill. Glassy Behavior and Metastability in the Charge or Spin Density Wave State; K.Biljakovic.Dynamics of Charge and Spin Density Waves: NonlinearTransport, Dislocations, and Plasticity:Introduction to ChargeDensity Wave Transport: Basic Phenomena and Models; P. Monceau. Theory of Charge and Spin Density Wave Transport; W.Wonneberger.Dislocations in the Charge Density Wave State ofNobium Triselenide:I Phase Slip Properties: II Bulk Charge Density Wave Transport; J.C. Gill. Charge Density Wave Dynamics in the Blue Bronzes A_0.30MoO₃; (A = K, Rb); J. Dumas. Photoinduced Properties of Charge Density Wave Materials; G.Mihaly. 2 additional articles. Index.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
An Introduction to the Design of Low-Dimensional Solids....Pages 1-14
Molybdenum and Tungsten Bronzes....Pages 15-43
Nanostructures of Low Dimensional Oxides: Nature and Role of Defects....Pages 45-58
Misfit Layer Compounds (MX)1+x(TX2)m M= Pb, Bi, Sn; T = Ti, V, Cr, Ta, Nb; X = S, Se; 0.08<x<0.28; m = 1, 2, 3....Pages 59-70
Clusters in Reduced Molybdenum and Tungsten Oxide and Sulfide Systems....Pages 71-82
New Materials From Reactions in Intermediate Temperature Molten Salts. Synthetic Methodologies for Multinary Solid State Chalcogenides....Pages 83-99
Density Waves in Linear Chain Compounds....Pages 101-114
Charge Density Waves in Quasi Two-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors — Molybdenum and Phosphate Tungsten Bronzes....Pages 115-139
Organic Superconductors and Spin Density Waves....Pages 141-169
Wigner Crystals....Pages 171-184
Structural and Dynamical Aspects of the Charge Density Wave Instability....Pages 185-217
Incommensurately Modulated Structures of Inorganic Charge-Density-Wave Compounds....Pages 219-228
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy on Charge Density Wave and Related Materials....Pages 229-239
Interpreting Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy Images....Pages 241-253
The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides....Pages 255-270
Fermi Surface Nesting and Electronic Instabilities in Transition Metal Oxides and Bronzes....Pages 271-283
Structural and Electronic Instabilities of Transition Metal Chalcogenides....Pages 285-302
Photoemission Studies in Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides....Pages 303-311
Angle Resolved Photoemission and Resonant Photoemission Studies of Quasi Low-Dimensional Oxide Conductors....Pages 313-326
Fermi and Luttinger Liquids in Low-Dimensional Metals....Pages 327-335
Thermal Lattice Fluctuations in Quasi One-Dimensional Conductors....Pages 337-344
Elastic and Thermal Properties of Low-Dimensional Conductors....Pages 345-355
Glassy Behaviour and Metastability in the Charge or Spin Density Wave State....Pages 357-370
Introduction to Charge Density Wave Transport....Pages 371-388
Theory of Charge and Spin Density Wave Transport....Pages 389-409
Charge Density Wave Dynamics in the Blue Bronzes A0.30MoO3(A=K, Rb)....Pages 411-419
Photoinduced Properties of CDW Materials....Pages 421-430
Intrinsic Defects and Plasticity in Charge and Spin Density Waves....Pages 431-442
Back Matter....Pages 443-452
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