Metal-Induced Crystallization

Metal-Induced Crystallization
Author: Zumin Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814463418

Crystalline semiconductors in the form of thin films are crucial materials for many modern, advanced technologies in fields such as microelectronics, optoelectronics, display technology, and photovoltaic technology. Crystalline semiconductors can be produced at surprisingly low temperatures (as low as 120C) by crystallization of amorphous semicon

The Materials Science of Thin Films

The Materials Science of Thin Films
Author: Milton Ohring
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 744
Release: 1992
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780125249904

Prepared as a textbook complete with problems after each chapter, specifically intended for classroom use in universities.

Physics and Engineering of New Materials

Physics and Engineering of New Materials
Author: Do Tran Cat
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540882014

This book presents the majority of the contributions to the Tenth German-Vietnamese Seminar on Physics and Engineering (GVS10) that took place in the Gustav- Stresemann-Institut (GSI) in Bonn from June 6 to June 9, 2007. In the focus of these studies are the preparation and basic properties of new material systems, related investigation methods, and practical applications. Accordingly the sections in this book are entitled electrons: transport and confinement, low-dimensional systems, magnetism, oxidic materials, organic films, new materials, and methods. The series of German-Vietnamese seminars was initiated and sponsored by the Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz -Foundation since 1998 and took place alt- nately in both countries. These bilateral meetings brought together top-notch senior and junior Vietnamese scientists with German Scientists and stimulated many contacts and co-operations. Under the general title “Physics and Engine- ing” the programs covered, in the form of keynote-lectures, oral presentations and posters, experimental and theoretical cutting-edge material-physics oriented topics. The majority of the contributions was dealing with modern topics of material science, particularly nanoscience, which is a research field of high importance also in Vietnam. Modern material science allows a quick transfer of research results to technical applications, which is very useful for fast developing countries like Vietnam. On the other hand, the seminars took profit from the strong cro- fertilization of the different disciplines of physics. This book is dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the seminars and nicely shows the scientific progress in Vietnam and the competitive level reached.

Nano-Crystalline and Thin Film Magnetic Oxides

Nano-Crystalline and Thin Film Magnetic Oxides
Author: Ivan Nedkov
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780792358732

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Ferrimagnetic Nano-crystalline and Thin Film Magnetooptical and Microwave Materials, Sozopol, Bulgaria, 27 September - 3 October, 1998

Iron-Based Superconducting Thin Films

Iron-Based Superconducting Thin Films
Author: Silvia Haindl
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-06-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030751325

This book provides a modern introduction to the growth, characterization, and physics of iron-based superconducting thin films. Iron pnictide and iron chalcogenide compounds have become intensively studied key materials in condensed matter physics due to their potential for high temperature superconductivity. With maximum critical temperatures of around 60 K, the new superconductors rank first after the celebrated cuprates, and the latest announcements on ultrathin films promise even more. Thin film synthesis of these superconductors began in 2008 immediately after their discovery, and this growing research area has seen remarkable progress up to the present day, especially with regard to the iron chalcogenides FeSe and FeSe1-xTex, the iron pnictide BaFe2-xCoxAs2 and iron-oxyarsenides. This essential volume provides comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of iron-based superconducting thin films in topical chapters with detailed information on thin film synthesis and growth, analytical film characterization, interfaces, and various aspects on physics and materials properties. Current efforts towards technological applications and functional films are outlined and discussed. The development and latest results for monolayer FeSe films are also presented. This book serves as a key reference for students, lecturers, industry engineers, and academic researchers who would like to gain an overview of this complex and growing research area.

Surface Microscopy with Low Energy Electrons

Surface Microscopy with Low Energy Electrons
Author: Ernst Bauer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-07-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1493909355

This book, written by a pioneer in surface physics and thin film research and the inventor of Low Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPLEEM) and Spectroscopic Photo Emission and Low Energy Electron Microscopy (SPELEEM), covers these and other techniques for the imaging of surfaces with low energy (slow) electrons. These techniques also include Photoemission Electron Microscopy (PEEM), X-ray Photoemission Electron Microscopy (XPEEM), and their combination with microdiffraction and microspectroscopy, all of which use cathode lenses and slow electrons. Of particular interest are the fundamentals and applications of LEEM, PEEM, and XPEEM because of their widespread use. Numerous illustrations illuminate the fundamental aspects of the electron optics, the experimental setup, and particularly the application results with these instruments. Surface Microscopy with Low Energy Electrons will give the reader a unified picture of the imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy methods that are possible using low energy electron microscopes.

Introduction to Structural Chemistry

Introduction to Structural Chemistry
Author: Stepan S. Batsanov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2012-11-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9400747713

A concise description of models and quantitative parameters in structural chemistry and their interrelations, with 280 tables and >3000 references giving the most up-to-date experimental data on energy characteristics of atoms, molecules and crystals (ionisation potentials, electron affinities, bond energies, heats of phase transitions, band and lattice energies), optical properties (refractive index, polarisability), spectroscopic characteristics and geometrical parameters (bond distances and angles, coordination numbers) of substances in gaseous, liquid and solid states, in glasses and melts, for various thermodynamic conditions. Systems of metallic, covalent, ionic and van der Waals radii, effective atomic charges and other empirical and semi-empirical models are critically revised. Special attention is given to new and growing areas: structural studies of solids under high pressures and van der Waals molecules in gases. The book is addressed to researchers, academics, postgraduates and advanced-course students in crystallography, materials science, physical chemistry of solids.

Thermal Expansion

Thermal Expansion
Author: Y. S. Touloukian
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1812
Release: 1977
Genre: Science
ISBN:

that about 100 journals are required to yield fifty In 1957, the Thermophysical Properties Research percent. But that other fifty percent! It is scattered Center (TPRC) of Purdue University, under the leadership of its founder, Professor Y. S. Touloukian, through more than 3500 journals and other docu began to develop a coordinated experimental, ments, often items not readily identifiable or ob tainable. Over 85,000 references are now in the theoretical, and literature review program covering a set of properties of great importance to science and files. technology. Over the years, this program has grown Thus, the man who wants to use existing data, rather than make new measurements himself, faces steadily, producing bibliographies, data compila a long and costly task if he wants to assure himself tions and recommendations, experimental measure ments, and other output. The series of volumes for that he has found all the relevant results. More often which these remarks constitute a foreword is one of than not, a search for data stops after one or two results are found-or after the searcher decides he these many important products. These volumes are a monumental accomplishment in themselves, re has spent enough time looking. Now with the quiring for their production the combined knowledge appearance of these volumes, the scientist or engineer and skills of dozens of dedicated specialists. The who needs these kinds of data can consider himself very fortunate.

Soft Actuators

Soft Actuators
Author: Kinji Asaka
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 722
Release: 2019-08-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811368503

This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition. The subject of this new edition is current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, covering interdisciplinary study of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics, and bioscience. The book includes contemporary research of actuators based on biomaterials for their potential in future artificial muscle technology. Readers will find detailed and useful information about materials, methods of synthesis, fabrication, and measurements to study soft actuators. Additionally, the topics of materials, modeling, and applications not only promote the further research and development of soft actuators, but bring benefits for utilization and industrialization. This volume makes generous use of color figures, diagrams, and photographs that provide easy-to-understand descriptions of the mechanisms, apparatus, and motions of soft actuators. Also, in this second edition the chapters on modeling, materials design, and device design have been given a wider scope and made easier to comprehend, which will be helpful in practical applications of soft actuators. Readers of this work can acquire the newest technology and information about basic science and practical applications of flexible, lightweight, and noiseless soft actuators, which differ from conventional mechanical engines and electric motors. This new edition of Soft Actuators will inspire readers with fresh ideas and encourage their research and development, thus opening up a new field of applications for the utilization and industrialization of soft actuators.

Engineering Materials Science

Engineering Materials Science
Author: Milton Ohring
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 861
Release: 1995
Genre: Materials
ISBN: 0125249950

This introductory text is intended to provide undergraduate engineering students with the background needed to understand the science of structure-property relationships, as well as address the engineering concerns of materials selection in design. A computer diskette is included.