Description: This special issue of “Solid State Phenomena” documents some novel experimental and theoretical approaches applied to fascinating materials. Motivated by the increasing need to synthesize and understand the properties of technologically important materials, this issue represents an important step forward in improving our understanding of how modern materials can be optimised for technology and industry. The issue comprises 9 original review papers covering experimental approaches and theoretical modeling. The contributions will be very useful to researchers working in various areas of CMP and will contribute significantly to the understanding of rapidly developing materials with regard to their synthesis, characterization and properties.

Magnesium Diborid

Edited by: Dr. David J. Fisher

Online since: February 2006

Description: This substance is very much a material for the new millennium, since its new manifestation as a high-temperature superconductor can be dated precisely from the seminal 2001 Nature paper (1st March, p63), Superconductivity at 39K in Magnesium Diboride, by J.Nagamatsu, N.Nakagawa, T.Muranaka, Y.Zenitani and J.Akimitsu of the Physics Department of Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo. Until then, it had been seen and used only as a rather nondescript ceramic/abrasive.

A Diffusion-Data Source-Book: Diffusion in Pure Elements

Edited by: Dr. David J. Fisher

Online since: February 2005

Description: This volume is aimed at diffusion non-specialists who may find at some time that they need a handy guide to the tracer diffusional behaviour of one element in another element. Those working on new coating, or other commercial processes, might for example need basic diffusion data in order to decide on the initial settings of the new-process parameters. Theoreticians who are seeking empirical trends in diffusivities may also find the contents to be of great interest.
The information is presented in the form of abstracts, gathered mainly from the 241-volume series of Defect and Diffusion Forum (and its antecedents); with their coverage of 38 years of diffusion research up to 2004. In the case of certain elements, such as silicon, even earlier data are included.

Impurity Diffusion in Metals

Edited by: G. Neumann and C. Tuijn

Online since: November 2002

Description: The systematic investigation of self-diffusion and impurity diffusion in metals began as a result of the availability of a wide variety of artificial radio- isotopes following the Second World War. During the following years, rapid advances in the theory of solid-state diffusion and the ever-increasing number of experimental data were comprehensively described in any number of textbooks and review papers. But impurity diffusion in metals was more or less superficially treated in the textbooks, and some of the review papers, with the result that - even up to now - a comprehensive review of the correct interpretation of impurity diffusion in metals has been lacking.

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 106-107

Edited by: Dr. David J. Fisher

Online since: January 1994

Description: Journal Issue

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 109-110

Edited by: Dr. David J. Fisher

Online since: January 1994

Description: Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 109-110

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 36

Edited by: Fred H. Wohlbier and Dr. David J. Fisher

Online since: January 1984

Description: Defect and Diffusion Forum Vol. 36