Experiments in Solid State Physics

Contents: Preface. 1. Crystal growth. 2. X-ray crystallography. 3. Physical properties of crystals. 4. Semiconductors. 5. Defects in crystals. Appendices.

"The book describes nearly thirty experiments based on a laboratory course on experimental solid state physics developed by the authors over a period of three decades. Many of the experiments have been designed by the authors and fabricated with simple indigenously available materials and can be set up with measuring instruments routinely available in a physics laboratory."