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

Self Healing Materials

Sybrand Van Der Zwaag

“As a general principle natural selection is continually trying to economise every part of the organisation. ” That was Charles Darwin, writing over 100 years ago about e- ciency innature. Naturalmaterialsareremarkably ef?cient. Byef?cient wemeanthat they ful?l the...

Multifunctional Barriers for Flexible Structure

Giovanni Camino , Sophie Duquesne , Carole Magniez

This is the first complete overview of the present state of the art of flexible barrier materials such as textile, paper and leather, including methods for barrier evaluation. It will be of interest to readers in industries, consumers, and members of the scientific...

Photonic Crystal Fibers

A. Cucinotta , F. Poli , S. Selleri

Photonic crystal fibers, also known as microstructured or holey fibers, have recently generated great interest in the scientific community thanks to the new ways provided to control and guide light, not obtainable with conventional optical fibers. Proposed for the first...

Physics of Negative Refraction and Negative Index Materials

Clifford M. Krowne , Yong Zhang

There are many potentially interesting phenomena that can be obtained with wave refraction in the “wrong” direction, what is commonly now referred to as negative refraction. All sorts of physically new operations and devices come to mind, such as new beam controlling...

Solder Joint Technology

King-Ning Tu

Solder joints are ubiquitous in electronic consumer products. The European Union has a directive to ban the use of Pb-based solders in these products on July 1st, 2006. There is an urgent need for an increase in the research and development of Pb-free solders in...

Nanocrystals:

G.U. Kulkarni , C.N.R. Rao , P. John Thomas

Nanocrystals and Their Mesoscopic Organization is an up-to-date monograph on an important aspect of nanoscience and technology. It opens with an elegant introduction including a brief historical account. Emphasis is then given to diverse synthetic methods, both chemical...

Materials for Tomorrow

Sibylle Gemming , Michael Schreiber , Jens-Boie Suck

Materials science has assumed a key position for new technological dev- opments, and is therefore strongly supported by industry and governments. Nowadays it occupies a bridging position between physics, chemistry and - gineering and extends from basic science in...

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...