Ferroelectrics, Nano-scale phenomena, High k Dielectrics -- Nanoscale Phenomena in Ferroelectric Thin Films -- High-K Candidates for Use as the Gate Dielectric in Silicon Mosfets -- Science and Technology of High-Dielectric Constant (K) Thin Films for Next Generation CMOS -- Magnetic Memory and Spintronics -- Materials Requirements for Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) Devices -- Manganite, …
Atoms, Small, and Large Molecules -- Basics of Thermal Analysis -- Dynamics of Chemical and Phase Changes -- Thermal Analysis Tools -- Structure and Properties of Materials -- Single Component Materials -- Multiple Component Materials."Thermal Analysis of Polymeric Materials" systematically treats macroscopic measurements by thermal analysis and the quantitative link to microscopic, molecular s…
D.H. Busch: First Considerations: Principles, Classification, and History -- Z.R. Laughrey, B.C. Gibb: Macrocycle Synthesis Through Templation -- A. Kaiser, P. Bäuerle: Macrocycles and Complex Three-Dimensional Structures Comprising Pt(II) Building Blocks -- F. Aricó, J.D. Badjic, S.J. Cantrill, A.H. Flood, K.C.F. Leung, Y. Liu, J.F. Stoddart: Templated Synthesis of Interlocked Molecules -- C…
Effective Interactions between Macroions 1 -- Dilute Solutions of Flexible and Spherical Ionic Polymers -- Colloidal Dispersions -- Kikuchi—Kossel Line Analysis on Colloidal Crystals -- Effective Interactions between Macroions 2 -- Viscometric Properties of Dilute Ionic Polymer Solutions and Colloidal Dispersions -- Phase Transitions by Computer Simulation -- Further Problems of Interparticle…
Material Science -- Resumé of Semiconductor Physics -- Realisation of Potential Barriers -- Electronic Device Principles -- Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors - HBTs -- Hetero Field Effect Transistors (HFETs) -- Tunneling Phenomena -- Optoelectronics -- Integration -- Outlook.Quantum size effects are becoming increasingly important in microelectronics as the dimensions of the structures shrin…
Light-Gas Gun Technology: A Historical Perspective -- Scaling and Designing Large-Bore Two-Stage High Velocity Guns -- The Coaxial Plasma Drag Accelerator -- Techniques to Launch Projectile Plates to Very High Velocities -- Sabot Designs for Launching Penetrators and Projectiles -- High-Speed Diagnostics for Ballistics and Explosive Studies -- Some Highlights in the History of High-Speed Photog…
Electronic Scale -- Atomistic Scale -- Mesoscale/Continuum Methods -- Mathematical Methods -- Rate Processes -- Crystal Defects -- Microstructure -- Fluids -- Polymers and Soft Matter -- Plenary Perspectives.The first reference of its kind in the rapidly emerging field of computational approachs to materials research, this is a compendium of perspective-providing and topical articles written to…
Lectures -- Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy -- Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale -- Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers -- Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics -- Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions -- Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices -- Lasers for Frontier Spe…
Modeling and computer simulation of characteristics nanosystems -- Optical Properties of Small-Radius SWNTs within a Tight-Binding Model -- The Electronic Structure of Nanotubes and the Topological Arrangements of Carbon Atoms -- Irradiation Effect on the Electron Transport Properties of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube -- Calculation of the Density Profile of Liquid Located in the Multi-Walled Ca…
Preliminary definitions -- Multiple scattering -- Shape functions -- Non-relativistic single-site scattering for spherically symmetric potentials -- Non-relativistic full potential single-site scattering -- Spin-polarized non-relativistic single-site scattering -- Relativistic single-site scattering for spherically symmetric potentials -- Relativistic full potential single-site scattering -- Sp…