Description

• Introduction
• Review of Atomic Structure
• Interatomic Forces and Bondings in Solids
• Structural Study of Crystalline Solids
• Wave Nature of Matter and X-Ray Diffraction
• Electrical Properties of Metals
• Thermal Properties of Solids
• Superconductivity
• Magnetic Properties of Materials
• Physics of Semiconductors
• Dielectrics and Related Properties
• Optical Properties of Solids
• Nanomaterials
• Other Important Topics

About the Author

Dr. S O Pillai, PhD, has had a teaching career spanning thirty eight years, which he carried out with involvement and dedication but without any interruption. The long experience in teaching both undergraduate Engineering students and postgraduate students in Materials Science, and the interaction with them helped him to bring out half a dozen textbooks till date.

During his stay in the main campus of Anna University from 1976 to 1998, he guided many MSc and M Phil students in their projects and two of them earned the PhD degree. Forty five research papers based on his independent research work in the field of ultrasonics and Material Science, and a valuable citation from then Governor of Tamil Nadu for his voluntary blood donation for about fifteen times are the other valuable contributions of Professor Pillai.

Dr. S O Pillai’s all round accomplishments including the self regulatory system and the admirable feedbacks of the students fetched him Dr. Radhakrishnan Best Teacher Award for the year 1989-90.