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The branches of Solid State Physics are developing very fast. This new edition has been extensively enlarged by including numerous new topics and thorough revision. The following topics are covered in this book: Graphite structure, Fullerenes, Carbon clusters and nanotubes, Polymers, Solid-solutions, Origin of dislocations and interaction between dislocations, crystallographic zone-axis, Electron diffraction and diffraction patterns, scattering by a unit cell, Mott-transition, Gunn effect and Gunn diode, Cyclotron resonance for semiconductors, photodiode and phototransistor, characteristics of an ideal dc SQUID, the first cuprate superconductor La2=x Mx CuO4 (ground state and phase diagram), variation of Tc with x in superconductor Y1Ba2Cu3O6+x. This book has been written keeping in mind the UGC syllabus