This volume will contain both invited and contributed papers which focus on the search for new high-Tc materials, characterization of their physical properties and microstructures, basic applications and the application of high-Tc superconductors.
These proceedings review the recent developments in current research connected with an adequate description of condensed matter in statistics of quasiparticles, topological invariants and self-similar structures.
These proceedings cover the talks delivered by experts and pioneers on various aspects of this field: theory; principles of the techniques; instrumentation; data analysis; data interpretation and state-of-the-art studies.
This book constitutes the proceedings of an up-to-date and comprehensive meeting devoted to the question whether baryon number violation can occur - in the standard model of weak and electromagnetic interactions - at rates which can be relevant to cosmology and particle experiment.
This volume of proceedings covers 2 important branches of Materials Science: Semiconductor physics and solar cells, and rare earth based materials and their applications.
Applications of superconductivity at the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen continue to challenge physicists, materials scientists and engineers all over the world eight years after the discovery of high temperature superconductivity.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of the nature of surface states and, in particular, their relevance to the physics and chemistry of metallic surfaces.
This volume contains invited and contributed papers of eminent scientists who are deeply involved in the field of strongly correlated electron systems and high-Tc superconductivity.
These proceedings include 76 papers on vortex structure and dynamics, flux pinning, flux creep and melting, critical state phenomena, weak links as well as technical problems for fabrication of materials with high critical current density, for both high-temperature and low-temperature superconductors.
The very fast progress registered during the last few decades in physics has clearly shown the great necessity to give an interdisciplinary character to the scientific programs.
This book contains a number of articles concerning the artificial perception of reality, as can be perceived by a sensor, and its interaction with natural human perception through the senses.
This volume covers all scientific aspects relating to quasicrystals, such as tilings, generalized crystallography, sample preparation, structure determination, the growth mechanism, phase transition, and physical and chemical properties (including electronic, dynamical and mechanical properties).
This inaugural volume in a new series on quantum many-body theory contains the papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories.
Dust-plasma interactions are of interest not only to space scientists and astrophysicists but lately also to technologists working in the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
The aim of this volume is to provide an overview on the state-of-art in optical spectroscopy covering the focal theoretical and experimental aspects of the last research developments on semiconductor field.
This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the III Latin American Workshop on Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (Merida, Venezuela, 20-24 November 1995), following those held in La Habana (Cuba) in 1991 and Guanajuato (Mexico) in 1993.
This proceedings volume describes many-body effects in highly correlated systems with special emphasis on metal clusters and transition from the free atom to the solid state limit and on strong laser field effects.
This volume contains the Proceedings of the International Workshop on "e;Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials"e;, held in Pisa in the early fall of 1995 as a joint initiative of the University of Pisa and of the Scuola Normale Superiore.
During the last ten years, the International Winterschools on Electronic Properties of New Materials (IWEPNM) have developed into a well-established institution and the alumni form a very active interdisciplinary community which spreads all over the world.
At the Second International A D Sakharov Conference on Physics, more than 200 physicists from many countries gathered together to celebrate what would have been the 75th birthday of the distinguished physicist and world figure Andrei Sakharov.
In this volume the following topics are discussed: existing and potential applications of quasicrystals, surface and interface properties of quasicrystals, and potential new quasicrystalline materials.
There is a major international interest in thin film materials and devices, Future Directions in Thin Film Science and Technology stimulated by important current and projected applications in many areas of information technology and other fields, constitutes the proceedings of the Ninth International School on Condensed Matter Physics.
