Books by Keyword: Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

Description: Following a standing tradition that began in 1987 in Germany, The International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects (PSD-24) was held in the Sala Bianca of the Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy, from September 1 to 6, 2024.The workshop aimed to provide a platform for the exchange of the latest scientific results and developments concerning positron interactions with solids and surfaces, the applied techniques, and their diverse applications. An intensive two-day Summer School in honour of Alfredo Dupasquier was held at the Brunate Library on August 31st and September 1st, prior to the PSD-24. The School featured lectures delivered by leading international experts in Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (PAS).

Description: An intensive two-day Summer School in honour of Alfredo Dupasquier was held at the Brunate Library (Como, Italy) on August 31st and September 1st 2024, before the traditional International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects 2024 (PSD-24, 1-6 September 2024, Como, Italy). The School's lectures presented in this special edition were delivered by leading international experts in Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (PAS).

Description: Following the long tradition that started in 1987, the International Workshop on Positron Studies of Defects 2024 (PSD-24) will be held in Como, Italy, in the period from September the 1st to 6th, 2024. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for exchange of the latest results and scientific information concerning the positron interactions with solids and surfaces, the generation of slow positron beams and their applications.

Description: Some theoretical aspects, practical results and experimental techniques of use of the positron annihilation phenomena in the research of the structure, defects of structure and other properties of different materials and mediums are covered in this journal volume. It comprises the papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Positron Annihilation (ICPA-17, Wuhan, China, 20-25 September, 2015).

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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: These proceedings, comprising 66 peer-review papers, are divided into 10 chapters covering: fundamental aspects (of positron and positronium chemistry), membranes, molecular systems, confined systems, liquids, polymers, porous systems, non-metallic materials, nuclear materials, experimental techniques. This work owes a lot to the authors’ commitment to positron and positronium chemistry and related subjects.
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This work reflects the wide and fascinating range of fields to which positrons have made important contributions. This covers, in particular, the development of low-energy (eV-keV) beams of essentially mono-energetic positrons, in the late 1960s, which opened the door to an even wider range of fundamental and technological studies: from surface physics to polymer films. In her introduction Professor Ganguly offers some background knowledge on the extent to which positrons have influenced and contributed to work in numerous fields.

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Nowadays, an impressively large number of powerful characterization techniques is being used by physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers in order to solve analytical research problems; especially those related to the investigation of the properties of new materials for advanced applications. Although there are a few available books which deal with such experimental techniques, they are either too exhaustive and cover very few techniques or are too elementary to provide a solid basis for learning to use the characterization technique. Moreover, such books usually over-emphasize the textbook approach: being full of theoretical concepts and mathematical derivations, and omitting the practical instruction required in order to permit newcomers to use the techniques.

Description: This tenth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective IX (Volume 265) and the end of May 2008 (journal availability permitting). As well as the 452 metals abstracts, the issue includes – in line with the new editorial policy of including original papers on all of the major material groups: “Defect Investigation of Plastically Deformed Al 5454 Wrought Alloy Using PADBS and Electrical Measurements” (Abdel-Rahman, Kamel, Lotfy, Badawi and Abdel-Rahman), “Activation Enthalpy of Dislocation Migration in Aircraft (Aerospace) (2024) Alloy by Positron Spectroscopy” (Abdel-Rahman, Abdallah, Hassan and Badawi), “Effect of Irradiation Dose on AlCu6.5 Alloy using Positron Annihilation Doppler Broadening Technique” (Abdel-Rahman, Lotfy, Abdel-Rahman and Badawi), “Dependence of Mono-Vacancy Formation Energy on the Parameter of Ashcroft's Potential” (Ghorai), “X-Ray Characterization of Ag Impurities in Na1-xAgxCl” (Hazeen, Syed Ali, Prema Rani and Saravanan), “Self-Organization Behavior of Sub-Micron CdO Grains Grown during Vapour-Solid Transition” (Zhang, Wang and Li), “Studies of the Local Structure and the Spin Hamiltonian Parameters for Co2+ in CaTiO3” (Lu, Wu, Zhang and Wei).