`... a sure footed and convincing guide' Times Higher Education Supplement
Introduction: Scope and plan of the book; Chemical aspects; Structural principles; Electronic classification; Models of electronic stucture: Ionic models; Cluster models; Band theory; Intermediate models; Insulating oxides: do compounds; Other closed-shell oxides; Transition metal impurities; Magnetic insulators; Defects and semiconduction: Electronic carrier properties; The point-defect model; Carrier binding energies and spectroscopy; Transition to the
metallic state; Metallic oxides: Simple metals; Electron correlation and magnetic anomalies; Lattice interactions; Superconductivity; Index.