Books by Keyword: Thin Film

Description: This special volume presents the latest advances in the science and technology of high-performance ceramics. More than 600 excellent contributions were further refined, using a strict peer-review process, to give the more than 243 manuscripts included in this collection.

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The aim of this special volume was to bring together scholars, from diverse regions of the world, whose scientific achievements bear witness to their outstanding contributions to current developments in, and applications of, electron microscopy as applied to materials science and nanomaterials research.
The topics covered include: Multifunctional Nanocomposites, Smart materials, Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications, Structure phenomena and modeling, Growth of thin films, Semiconductors and optoelectronic materials, Other Nanomaterials and Interdisciplinary Topics.

Description: This special collection of peer-reviewed papers focuses on the technology, characterization and equipment required for handling nanocomposite films and hard and superhard coatings. It also covers subjects related to the development, properties and methods for the characterization of nanostructured materials for: solid-state electronics and energy technologies; nanocomposite films, hard and superhard coatings, tribological / corrosion-resistant coatings; surfaces and interfaces; nano-sensors, nanodevices and nanosystems, Equipment for deposition and characterization of nanocomposite films and industrial application of hard and superhard coatings.

Description: This eleventh volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which have appeared since the publication of Annual Retrospective X (Volumes 280-281). As well as the 589 ceramics abstracts, the issue includes original papers on all of the major material groups, and theory: “Positron Annihilation in Ion-Implanted ZnO” (A.D.Acharya, G.Singh and S.B.Shrivastava), “Optical Characteristics of Tungsten Oxide Thin Films Prepared by Sputtering Technique” (S.A.Aly), “Research on Magnetization Mechanism of Nano-Magnetic Fluid” (J.Li and D.Li), “Clustering of Arsenic Atoms in Silicon during Low-Temperature Annealing” (O.Velichko and O.Burunova), “Effect of Current Density on Composition and Microstructure of Si Diffusion Layer by Electrodeposition” (H.Yang, Y.Zhang, Y.Li, G.Tang and K.Jia), “Positron Annihilation & Micro-Hardness Measurement of 6063 and 6066 with Compromise with Ingot Al” (M.A.Abdel-Rahman, A.Al-deen and E.A.Badawi), “Stress-Induced Migration and Trapping of Hydrogen in AISI403 Steel” (G.P.Tiwari, V.D.Alur and E.Ramadasan), “Electromigration Force on a Proton with a Bound State” (A.Lodder).

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This work on Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys contains selected peer-reviewed papers. Such materials belong to the most exciting and fastest-growing group of martensitic multifunctional materials.
The selected papers cover the following topics of: Basic phenomena and theory; Structure and magnetic properties; Magnetomechanics and magnetocaloric effect; Thin films and composites; Modeling and simulations and Processing and engineering.

Description: This special collection brings to the reader the latest developments in the science and technology of electroceramics. It focuses on contributing to the exchange of Electroceramics knowledge; both scientific and industrial.

Description: This eleventh volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective X (Volume 278) and the end of August 2009 (journal availability permitting).

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This volume is entirely focussed on electrophoretic deposition (EPD) as a processing technique for the fabrication of both traditional and novel materials.

Description: Reducing the dimensions of contiguous matter, down to the nanometer scale, confines the electronic and vibrational wavefunctions and results in unique properties which open up a wide vista of potential applications in optics, mechanics, electrical engineering, magnetic devices, catalysis and biomedicine. Nanostructures, characterized by having at least one dimension in the nanometer range, are considered to be a bridge between single molecules and their bulk counterparts. The challenge for nanotechnology is to achieve perfect control of the nanoscale-related properties; which obviously requires correlating the parameters of synthesis with the resultant nanostructures. Nanostructures are also ideal subjects for computer simulation and modeling: in computations related to nanomaterials, one deals with a spatial scaling ranging from a few nanometers to a few micrometers and a time-scaling ranging from a few femto-seconds (fs) to 1 second - with a limit of accuracy better than 1 kcal mol-1.

Description: Updated knowledge on “Advances in semiconducting materials” is of great significance for both fundamental research and industrial application. The papers contained in this special volume address diverse topics related to recent trends in the science of semiconducting materials as related to synthesis, characterization, applications, etc.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).