Bücher der Reihe Springer Series in Materials Science

This book explores the mechanisms, theory, simulations and technological aspects of laser processing. Covering cause-and-effect relations in physical processes, it examines laser quenching, welding, cutting, alloying, selective sintering, ablation and more.

Metal oxides and particularly their nanostructures have emerged as animportant class of materials with a rich spectrum of properties and greatpotential for device applications.

This volume addresses the exciting and rapidly developing topic of ultrahigh-density magnetic data storage. It is the most advanced book on magnetic nanostructures, basics and applications. It combines modern topics in nanomagnetism with issues relating to the fabrication and characterization of magnetic nanostructures.

Even as we tentatively enter the nanotechnology era, we are now encountering the 50th anniversary of the invention of the IC. Will silicon continue to be the pre-eminent material and will Moore's Law continue unabated, albeit in a broader economic venue, in the nanotechnology era?

Organic semiconductors offer unique characteristics which have prompted the application of organic semiconductors and their devices in physical, chemical, and biological sensors. Novel transducers based on organic light-emitting diodes and organic thin-film transistors, as well as systems-on-a-chip architectures are presented.

A book on calorimetry and thermal analysis methods, and other techniques, as applied to the characterization of catalysts, supports and adsorbents, and to the study of catalytic reactions in various domains: air and wastewater treatment, clean and renewable energies, refining of hydrocarbons, green chemistry, hydrogen production and storage.

This book brings together an emerging consensus on our understanding of the complex functional materials including ferroics, perovskites, multiferroics, CMR and high-temperature superconductors.

An account of the fundamental physics of all types of microclusters, outlining the dynamics and static properties of this phase of matter intermediate between a solid and a molecule. The volume also reviews developments in the field of microclusters.

This book covers practical aspects of mass measurements, describing concepts of gravitational, inertial and conventional mass and the variation of acceleration of gravity, and Metric Convention and International Prototype Kilogram and BIPM standards.

The AlInGaN and ZnO materials systems have proven to be one of the scientifically and technologically important areas of development over the past 15 years, with applications in UV/visible optoelectronics and in high-power/high-frequency microwave devices.

With a special focus on NdFeB permanent magnets and the materials studied in the field of spintronics, this volume summarizes new developments in ferromagnetism research as well as covering the basic physics of ferromagnetism such as exchange coupling.

The book describes the fundamentals, latest developments and use of key experimental techniques for semiconductor research. It explains the application potential of various analytical methods and discusses the opportunities to apply particular analytical techniques to study novel semiconductor compounds, such as dilute nitride alloys.

The book gives a description of the failure phenomena of ceramic materials under mechanical loading, the methods to determine their properties, and the principles for material selection.

Laser-Assisted Microtechnology introduces the principles and techniques of laser-assisted microtechnology with emphasis on micromachining of thin films, microprocessing of materials, maskless laser micropatterning and laser-assisted synthesis of thin-film systems.

This uniquely powerful microscopy technique has seen major innovations in the last decade, including pulsed-laser-assisted evaporation. As the most practical, up-to-date critical review of the field, this volume includes examples of APM from materials science.

This book provides an up-to-date review of nanometer-scale magnetism and focuses on the investigation of the basic properties of magnetic nanostructures.

This book surveys size- and shape-dependent effects in nanoferroics, the properties of these materials, approaches for describing size-dependent effects and chemical and physico-chemical nanofabrication methods for making nanoferroic materials and composites.

The book describes the fundamentals, latest developments and use of key experimental techniques for semiconductor research. It explains the application potential of various analytical methods and discusses the opportunities to apply particular analytical techniques to study novel semiconductor compounds, such as dilute nitride alloys.

This book was begun after three of the present authors gave a series of in vited talks on the subject of the structure and properties of carbon filaments.

The research on graphite intercalation compounds often acts as a forerunner for research in other sciences. The first volume addressed the structural and dynamical aspects of graphite intercalation compounds, together with the chemistry and intercalation of new compounds.

With contributions by numerous experts.

Physics of New Materials After the discoveries and applications of superconductors, new ceramics, amorphous and nano-materials, shape memory and other intelligent materials, physics became more and more important, comparable with chemistry, in the research and development of advanced materials.

A comprehensive presentation and analysis of properties and methods of formation of semiconducting silicides. Fundamental electronic, optical and transport properties of the silicides collected from recent publications will help readers choose their application in new generations of solid-state devices.

International School of Materials Science and Technology

The aim of this book is twofold: it is intended for use as a textbook for a ~ourse on electronic materials (indeed, it stems from a series of lectures on this topic delivered at Milan Polytechnic and at the universities of Modena and Parma), and as an up-to-date review for scientists working in the field ::>f silicon processing.

Hydrogen can behave as an alkaline metal or a halogen and can react with nearly all elements of the periodic table.

In this book the author discusses the investigation of ion bombardment of solids by computer simulation, with the aim of demonstrating the usefulness of this approach to the problem of interactions of ions with solids.

Since the discovery by Bednorz and Muller of Cu-O alloys displaying high temperature superconductivity, great energy has been put into research in this field. For the Bi-O superconductors the main topic was whether the mechanism of superconductivity is the same as that of high Tc Cu-O superconductors.

The summer school on "Silicon: Materials Science and Technology" was held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily.