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

Magnetic Nanostructures

Bekir Aktas , Faik Mikailov , Lenar Tagirov

The rate of development in modern digital computer systems and software has led to an almost insatiable demand for ever increasing storage capacities. In response to this demand the memory manufactures and, in particular the disk drive manufacturers have over the last...

Micro- and Macro-Properties of Solids

Lalitha Sirdeshmukh , Dinker B. Sirdeshmukh , K. G. Subhadra

Each of the eight chapters treats an important aspect of solid state physics, comprising a complete review of the particular field. Typically, a chapter starts with basic information about a property of a solid and the related experimental techniques. This is followed...

Introduction to Wave Scattering, Localization and Mesoscopic Phenomena

Ping Sheng , Ping Sheng

The Metal-Hydrogen System

Yuh Fukai

Metal hydrides are of inestimable importance for the future of hydrogen energy. This unique monograph presents a clear and comprehensive description of the bulk properties of the metal-hydrogen system. The statistical thermodynamics is treated over a very wide range of...

Hartree-Fock-Slater Method for Materials Science

Hirohiko Adachi , Jun Kawai , Takeshi Mukoyama

Molecular-orbital calculations for materials design such as alloys, ceramics, and coordination compounds are now possible for experimentalists. Molecuar-orbital calculations for the interpretation of chemical effect of spectra are also possible for experimentalists. The...

Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites

Uwe Rau , Susanne Siebentritt

Chalcopyrites, in particular those with a wide band gap, are fascinating materials in terms of their technological potential in the next generation of thin-film solar cells and in terms of their basic material properties. They exhibit uniquely low defect formation...

Metallopolymer Nanocomposites

V.N. Kestelman , A.D. Pomogailo

Highly dispersed nanoscale particles in polymer matrices are currently attracting great interest in many fields of chemistry, physics, and materials science. This book presents and analyzes the essential data on nanoscale metal clusters dispersed in, or chemically...

Lifetime Spectroscopy

Stefan Rein

Lifetime spectroscopy is one of the most sensitive diagnostic tools for the identification and analysis of impurities in semiconductors. Since it is based on the recombination process, it provides insight into precisely those defects that are relevant to semiconductor...