Distinct scientific communities are usually involved in the three fields of quasi-crystals, of liquid crystals, and of systems having modulated crystalline structures.
The present volume contains the texts of the invited talks delivered at the Sixth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories held in Arad, Israel during the period November 5-10 1989.
Semimagnetic semiconductors (SMSC) and diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) have in the past decade attracted considerable attention because they confer many new physical properties on both bulk materials and heterostructures.
The XIV International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories has been held at the Elba International Physics Center (EIPC), Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba, Italy, from 18-23 June, 1990.
This volume contains the lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Ad- vanced Study Institute on "e;Solid State Lasers: New Developments and Appli- cations"e; the fifteenth course of the Europhysics School of Quantum Electronics, held under the supervision of the Quantum Electronics Division of the European Physical Society.
Soon after the discovery of quantum mechanics, group theoretical methods were used extensively in order to exploit rotational symmetry and classify atomic spectra.
The present volume contains the texts of the invited talks delivered at the Sev- enth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories held at the University of Minnesota during the period August 26-31, 1991.
It is almost self-evident that surface and interface science, coupled with the electronic structure of bulk materials, playa fundamental role in the understanding of materials properties.
The XV International Workshop on Condensed Matter Theories was held at the beautiful seaside resort of Mar del Plata, Argentina, during the first week of July, 1991.
This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "e;Intersubband Transistions in Quantum Wells"e; held in Cargese, France, between the t 9 h and the 14th of September 1991.
This volume contains the proceedings of the University of Miami Workshop on the subject of "e;Electronic Structure and Mechanisms for High Temperature Super- conductivity"e;.
Building on the extensive coverage of the first volume, Volume 2 focuses on the fundamentals of measurements and computational techniques that will aid researchers in the construction and use of measurement devices.
This 18th volume of the series includes invited papers from the Seventh All-Union Conference on the Growth of Crystals and the Symposium on Molecular-Beam Epitaxy that were held in Moscow in November, 1988.
This book collects the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Ionization of Solids by Heavy Particles"e;, held in Giardini-Naxos (Taormina), Italy, on June 1 -5, 1992.
This volume provides a record of the second ASI on the subject "e;Chemical Physics of Intercalation"e;, which was patterned after its highly successful July 1987 predecessor.
The Hiroshima Workshop on Transport and Thermal Properties of f-Electron Systems, T2PfS, was held in the hotel Greenpia Yasuura on the shores of the Seto Inland Sea near Hiroshima, Japan from August 30, to September 2, 1992, as a satellite meeting of the International Conference of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems in Sendai.
The operation of semiconductor devices depends upon the use of electrical potential barriers (such as gate depletion) in controlling the carrier densities (electrons and holes) and their transport.
This volume contains the proceedings of a five-day NATO Advanced Research Workshop "e;On Three Levels, the mathematical physics of micro-, meso-, and macro- phenomena,"e; conducted from July 19 to 23 in Leuven, Belgium.
Volume 19 includes articles on growth of crystals from the vapor, from the melt, and from fluxes, as well as a section on actual structure of crystals and films relative to growth conditions.
The present volume contains the text of the invited talks delivered at the Eighth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories held at SchloB Seggau, Province of Styria, Austria, during the period August 22-26, 1994.
The study of phase transformations in substitutional alloys, including order- disorder phenomena and structural transformations, plays a crucial role in understanding the physical and mechanical properties of materials, and in designing alloys with desired technologically important characteristics.
The phenomenonofspontaneous ordering in semiconductoralloys, which can be categorized as a self-organized process, is observed to occur sponta- neously during epitaxial growth of certain ternary alloy semiconductors and results in a modification of their structural, electronic, and optical properties.
Growth of Crystals, Volume 21 presents a survey, with detailed analysis, of the scientific and technological approaches, and results obtained, by leading Russian crystal growth specialists from the late 1990's to date.
As the demands put on the polymer/metal interface, particularly by the microelectronics industry, become more and more severe, the necessity for understanding this interface, its properties and its limitations, becomes more and more essential.
When I was contacted by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Fall of 200 I, inviting me to edit a volume of papers on the issue of electron transport in quantum dots, I was excited by what I saw as an ideal opportunity to provide an overview of a field of research that has made significant contributions in recent years, both to our understanding of fundamental physics, and to the development of novel nanoelectronic technologies.
