All ebooks in the collection "Springer Series in Materials Science" - Springer

Bismuth-Containing Alloys and Nanostructures

Pengfei Lu , Shumin Wang

This book focuses on novel bismuth-containing alloys and nanostructures, covering a wide range of materials from semiconductors, topological insulators, silica optical fibers and to multiferroic materials. It provides a timely overview of bismuth alloys and...

Piezo-Particulate Composites

Christopher R. Bowen , Hamideh Khanbareh , Vitaly Yu. Topolov

This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in novel piezo-composites based on ferroelectrics. Covering aspects ranging from theoretical materials simulation and manufacturing and characterization methods, to the application and performance of these...

Architectured Materials in Nature and Engineering

Yves Bréchet , John Dunlop , Yuri Estrin , Peter Fratzl

This book deals with a group of architectured materials. These are hybrid materials in which the constituents (even strongly dissimilar ones) are combined in a given topology and geometry to provide otherwise conflicting properties. The hybridization presented in the...

Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas

Chang-Sik Ha , Sung Soo Park

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental properties, preparation routes and applications of a novel class of organic–inorganic nanocomposites known as periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs).Mesoporous silicas are amorphous inorganic materials...

Solidification Processing of Metallic Alloys Under External Fields

Dmitry G. Eskin , Dmitry G. Eskin , Jiawei Mi

This book explores the application of external physical fields to the solidification processing of metallic alloys. Leading academics from around the world present comprehensive and critical reviews on state-of-the-art research and discuss possible future directions....

Advances in the Application of Lasers in Materials Science

Paolo M. Ossi

The book covers recent advances and progress in understanding both the fundamental science of lasers interactions in materials science, as well as a special emphasis on emerging applications enabled by the irradiation of materials by pulsed laser systems.The different...

Materials Discovery and Design

Frank Alexander , Cris Barnes , Stephan Eidenbenz , Turab Lookman

This book addresses the current status, challenges and future directions of data-driven materials discovery and design. It presents the analysis and learning from data as a key theme in many science and cyber related applications. The challenging open questions as...

Metal Impurities in Silicon- and Germanium-Based Technologies

Cor Claeys , Eddy Simoen

This book provides a unique review of various aspects of metallic contamination in Si and Ge-based semiconductors. It discusses all of the important metals including their origin during crystal and/or device manufacturing, their fundamental properties, their...

Spectroscopy of Complex Oxide Interfaces

Claudia Cancellieri , Vladimir N. Strocov

This book summarizes the most recent and compelling experimental results for complex oxide interfaces. The results of this book were obtained with the cutting-edge photoemission technique at highest energy resolution. Due to their fascinating properties for...

Europium Monoxide

Arnold S. Borukhovich , Alexey V. Troshin

This book presents the physical characteristics and possible device applications of europium monoxide as well as materials based on it. It reveals the suitability of this material for device applications in super- and semiconductor spin electronics. Ferromagnetic...

Tetrahedrally Bonded Amorphous Carbon Films I

Bernd Schultrich

This book presents the status quo of the structure, preparation, properties and applications of tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon (ta-C) films and compares them with related film systems. Tetrahedrally bonded amorphous carbon films (ta-C) combine some of the...

Chemistry of Polymeric Metal Chelates

Gulzhian I. Dzhardimalieva , Igor E. Uflyand

This book deals with the chemistry of polymeric metal chelates. The main results and the production and chemical structure of polymers with chelate units as well as the specificity of metal complex binding of different structure are presented here.This book also reveals...

Liquid-Crystal Nanomaterials

Sergey F. Ermakov , Nikolai K. Myshkin

This book discusses the tribological, rheological and optical properties of liquid-crystal nanomaterials as well as lubricant media. It also describes the formation of liquid-crystal materials and the application of cholesteric liquid-crystal compounds in technical...

Functional Metamaterials and Metadevices

Xingcun Colin Tong

To meet the demands of students, scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source, this book introduces, comprehensively and in a single voice, research and development progress in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices. Coverage includes...

Photofunctional Rare Earth Hybrid Materials

Bing Yan

This book presents the main research advances in the field of photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials. The first chapter discusses the fundamental principles, ranging from rare earth, rare earth luminescence, luminescent rare earth compounds and photofunctional rare...

High Performance Soft Magnetic Materials

Arcady Zhukov

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the current state-of-the-art in soft magnetic materials and related applications, with particular focus on amorphous and nanocrystalline magnetic wires and ribbons and sensor applications.  Expert chapters cover...

Bismuth-Containing Compounds

Handong Li , Zhiming M. Wang

Bismuth-containing compounds comprise a relatively unexplored materials system that is expected to offer many unique and desirable optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and electronic properties for innovative device applications. This book serves as a platform for knowledge...

Silicon-based Nanomaterials

Handong Li , Zhiming M. Wang , Jiang Wu

A variety of nanomaterials have excellent optoelectronic and electronic properties for novel device applications. At the same time, and with advances in silicon integrated circuit (IC) techniques, compatible Si-based nanomaterials hold promise of applying the advantages...

Physics of Laser Materials Processing

Gennady G. Gladush , Igor Smurov

This book describes the basic mechanisms, theory, simulations and technological aspects of Laser processing techniques. It covers the principles of laser quenching, welding, cutting, alloying, selective sintering, ablation, etc. The main attention is paid to the...

Metastable States in Amorphous Chalcogenide Semiconductors

Victor V. Mikla , Victor I. Mikla