Books by Keyword: Amorphous

Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the Fifth International Conference on Advanced Materials and Structures (AMS 2013), 24-25 October 2013, Timişoara, Romania.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The 56 papers are grouped as follows:
Chapter 1: Advanced Materials,
Chapter 2: Materials Characterization,
Chapter 3: Modern Processing Techniques

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters BCI (WoS).
Public interest and concern about radiation damage effects has increased during recent times. Nuclear radiation proved to be a precursor for the study of radiation damage effects in solids. In general, all types of radiation, e.g. X-ray, gamma ray, heavy ions, fission fragments and neutrons produce damage effects in materials. Radiation damage latent tracks in solids find applications in nuclear and elementary particle physics, chemistry, radiobiology, earth sciences, nuclear engineering, and a host of other areas such as nuclear safeguards, virus counting, ion track filters, uranium exploration and archaeology. Radiation dosimetry and reactor shielding also involve concepts based on radiation damage in solids. This special volume consists of ten Chapters, including Review and Research Papers on various topics in this field.

Description: The main theme of this special collection of 60 peer-reviewed papers is Energy and Environmental Materials”. The collection is divided into 4 chapters: Eco-Materials, Energy Materials, Light Metals and Alloys, Low-Dimensional and Amorphous Materials, and provides an up-to-date survey of the topic.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Description: This volume comprises the proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Metastable, Mechanically Alloyed and Nanocrystalline Materials, held in Sendai, Japan, 22nd to 26th 2004.

Description: This fourth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared within the approximate period of mid-2000 to mid-2001. The scope of this coverage includes, in addition to traditional semiconductors, the increasingly important carbide, nitride and silicide semiconductors. Semiconducting oxides are not covered, as information on these can be found in the "Defects and Diffusion in Ceramics Retrospective" series. The increasing interest in ceramic-type semiconductors is again reflected by the invited papers, which include an extensive review of the particular problems involved in growing GaN films on sapphire substrates. Nevertheless, established semiconductors continue to spring surprises and to offer new problems and these are also addressed here by a number of further detailed reviews of work on Si, InP and InGaP. Finally, new results are to be found here concerning diffusive processes and defect behaviour in Ge, GeSi, InGaAs, Si and ZnSe. Altogether, these 8 long reviews, 9 research papers and 752 selected abstracts provide an invaluable and up-to-date insight into current and future trends in semiconductor theory, processing and applications.

Description: This phenomenon (also known as the Compensation Effect) can occur in any situation which involves an activated process. However, the rule is still most commonly referred to in connection with diffusion phenomena. As the rule still tends to exist in a sort of limbo between fully accepted physical law and unexplained correlation, this volume presents a handy survey of relevant diffusion data reaching back as far as the 1930s.

Description: This is the third special issue to cover recent progress in the field. As usual, priority in abstracting has been given to the most accessible work and, in particular, to those papers which furnish original data or report important new techniques, phenomena or anomalies; although there is also extensive coverage of more qualitative features of diffusion and defect phenomena, of the predictions of computer models, and of theoretical studies. As before, the usual definition of ‘ceramic’ has been widened so as to include all forms of carbon, and also some nitrides whose primary use is not that of a classical ceramic.

Description: The present book sums up the most recent advances in the investigation of nanocrystallization. Many new nanocrystalline materials with promising magnetic and mechanical properties have been developed. For example, soft-magnetic nanocrystalline Fe-based alloys, hard-soft nanocrystalline Fe/FeNdB-type magnets and light Al-based nanostructures with attractive mechanical properties.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The EPDIC-5 Proceedings present the latest papers in this successful series of European Conferences on Powder Diffraction. They demonstrate the evergrowing interest from materials scientists, physicists, chemists, geologists - both industrial and academic- all having a direct interest in the practical application of this powerful and non-destructive method of analysis.
Part 1 comprises some 75 contributions, with sections on Methodological Developments, Development of Instruments and Techniques, Software, Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction describing the latest ideas in these fields. Subjects such as Microstructure of Materials, Texture, Quantitative Phase Analysis and Crystal Structure Determination are also addressed; as in previous editions of these conference proceedings. An important step forward in materials analysis is now occurring: scientists and engineers are becoming more and more conscious of the fact that, by using these techniques, it is possible to obtain quantitative information from the same set of measurements, of material characteristics, that determine material properties. This advance has been made possible thanks to recent instrumental developments, such as the X-ray lens -a bundle of glass capillaries- and single or double X-ray mirrors. A very useful tool, that is extensively applied -as described in a sequence of some 15 contributions-, is the in-situ (i.e. time resolved) powder diffraction technique which has resulted from the ample availability of position sensitive detectors.

Description: Nonequilibrium materials have always been of particular importance in materials science and application since most of the structural materials commonly used are not in the condition of stable equilibrium.