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).

Diffusion and Defect Studies in Zirconium and some of its Alloys

Authors: Prof. R.P. Agarwala

Online since: April 2004

Description: This book is divided into two parts: the first part describes diffusion processes, and the second part describes radiation damage to - and cold-working of - zirconium and some of its important alloys.

Gettering and Defect Engineering in Semiconductor Technology VII

Edited by: C. Claeys, J. Vanhellemont, H. Richter and M. Kittler

Online since: July 1997

Description: Defect control relies more and more upon advanced fabrication approaches such as the use of slow pulling rates and hydrogen annealing. Gettering techniques remain of key importance in enhancing the device yield.

Materials Science Applications of Ion Beam Techniques

Edited by: A.G. Balogh and G. Walter

Online since: May 1997

Description: The first particle accelerators were built in the early 1930’s. For a long time, these devices were used exclusively by nuclear physicists. In the 1960’s, extensive developments in measuring techniques occurred, mainly as a result of newly developed semiconductor devices. Further strong interest arose from the semiconductor industry, and ion implantation became widely accepted as being the ultimate tool for Si-based device fabrication.

Defects in Insulating Materials

Edited by: G.E. Matthews and R.T. Williams

Online since: January 1997

Description: This book constitutes a comprehensive international forum on defect-related phenomena in wide-gap materials, crystalline or otherwise. Materials as diverse as SiO2, group-III nitride compounds, diamond, alkali halides, refractory oxides, and polymers are covered, and the "defects" considered include intrinsic point imperfections, dislocations, accidental impurities, intentional dopants, imperfect surfaces, nanocrystals in host matrices, and bonding defects in glasses.
Important unifying similarities of the phenomena are identified and investigative methods are presented which can be applied, almost across-the-board, to materials which share a wide transparency, deep traps, extensive stored energy in electron-hole pairs, and a low conduction-electron density.

Defect and Diffusion Forum Vols. 131-132

Edited by: Prof. Graeme E. Murch

Online since: March 1996

Description: Journal issue

Materials under Irradiation

Edited by: A. Dunlop, F. Rullier-Albenque, C. Jaouen, C. Templier and J. Davenas

Online since: January 1992

Description: The purpose of this book is to provide a state-of-the-art picture of the field of radiation damage. It covers various topics extending from theoretical understanding of energy deposition and defect creation to industrial and nuclear applications.