Books by Keyword: Diffusion

Description: This latest annual look back at the subject includes review papers on some applications of mechanical spectroscopy and magnetic relaxation to the monitoring of diffusion, on the effect of positron diffusion upon their annihilation, on the wind force in electromigration, on the creep of nanocrystalline metals (as related to grain-boundary diffusion) and on self-interstitial atom behaviour at high temperatures in dense metals.

Description: The third annual retrospective of the latest results in the field of defects and diffusion in semiconductors covers the period from mid-1999 to mid-2000. As usual, the coverage also includes, in addition to 'traditional' semiconductors, the more important of the nitride and silicide semiconductors.

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This books reports exciting new research results in the area of bulk metallic glasses and bulk nanocrystalline materials prepared by severe plastic deformation. Other major topics include synthesis and processing of metals, intermetallics and oxides, polymers, nanocomposites and others by different techniques, including mechanosynthesis and mechanochemistry. Also covered are the structural characterization of nanophase materials and the structural evolution caused by mechanical treatment.

Description: Halides continue to be an increasingly important industrial engineering resource: as electrolytes, and in heat-treatment baths on the one hand, and as the basis of exotic devices in the fields of optics, electronics, etc., on the other. At both of these extremes, the gross or detailed movements of ions, respectively, are important factors. There may also be an important geological need for a knowledge of halide diffusion data, in an era when the migration – or not - of various waste materials, including nuclear, through natural seams of halide-based minerals is of great concern.

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This book covers the principal topics of basic and applied research on diffusion-controlled transport phenomena in metals, ceramics and other systems. Particular attention is paid to diffusional mass transport, reactive diffusion, interdiffusion and phase transformations. Further attention is paid to the practical aspects of applying a deeper understanding of diffusion and reaction mechanisms to the development of materials with improved service properties.

The theory of interdiffusion, reactive diffusion and defect phenomena, the predictions of computer models, and other theoretical studies are extensively covered. Altogether, this again makes the present work an up-to-date and convenient source of information on current trends in the field of solid-state diffusion.

Description: This is the second issue, following DDF165-166, to cover recent progress in this 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 overage of more qualitative features of diffusion and defect phenomena, of the predictions of computer models, and of theoretical studies.

Description: With the continuing evolution of fabrication techniques and new structures for semiconducting materials, the list of new defect phenomena has also increased apace. The present book discusses point defects, defect-assisted diffusion, metal impurity additions, metastable defects, magnetic hyperfine interaction of deep donors in compound semiconductors, and oxygen and hydrogen impurity defects.

Description: Although this volume is ostensibly devoted to diffusion per se, it also covers ionic conduction because this phenomenon, in the often complex and charge-sensitive structures of many ceramics, usually gives important clues as to the routes taken by all migrating species.

The definition of what constitutes a ceramic is also liberally interpreted here so as to include substances which are not normally used as such in the industrial sense. One obvious anomaly is the class of so-called room-temperature superconductors which, perversely, are expected to be used at the opposite end of the temperature scale to traditional ceramic applications. The coverage of research on oxides, carbides and nitrides herein is believed to be as complete as possible, while other possible candidates for inclusion are not necessarily to be found in the 'miscellaneous' section. Silicides, in particular, are notable by their absence.

Description: This work, like others in the series (Defects and Diffusion inSemiconductors and Defects and Diffusion in Ceramics), continues a 30-year program which has the aim of succinctly summarizing progress in the fields of diffusion and defect research.

Description: The phenomena of grain boundary diffusion and grain boundary segregation play major roles in determining the properties and behavior of a wide variety of materials. Even though the basic principles have been known for a long time, the field continues to yield a number of very challenging questions.