The present volume contains the courses given at a Summer School on "e;Magne- tic Phase Transitions"e; held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, at Erice (Trapani), Italy in July 1983 under the auspices of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society in their series on Materials Science and Technology.
This volume contains papers presented at the Fifth Taniguchi Symposium on the Theory of Condensed Matter, which was held between 2-5 November, 1982, at Shimoda, Japan.
The Kyoto Summer Institute 1980 (KSI '80), devoted to "e;Fundamental Physics of Amorphous Semiconductors"e;, was held at Research Institute for Fundamental Physics (RIFP), Kyoto University, from 8-11 September, 1980.
With the advent of X-ray diffraction and crystal structure determination in 1912 researchers in physics and chemistry began investigating the problem of crystal co- hesion, i.
From its early beginning before the war, the field of semiconductors has developped as a classical example where the standard approximations of 'band theory' can be safely used to study its interesting electronic properties.
It is now ten years since it was first convincingly shown that below 1 K the ther- mal conductivity and the heat capacity of amorphous solids behave in a way which is strikingly different to that of crystalline solids.
Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscop~ or lETS, provides a unique technique for electronically monitoring the vibrational modes of molecul (;5 adsorbed on a metal oxide surface.
Inelastic neutron scattering is a well established and important technique for studying the dynamical properties of condensed matter at the atomic level.
Since the discovery of the corpuscular nature of radiation by Planck more than fifty years ago the quantum theory of radiation has gone through many stages of development which seemed to alternate between spectacular success and hopeless frustration.
Since the first edition of "e;Scanning 'funneling Microscopy I"e; has been pub- lished, considerable progress has been made in the application of STM to the various classes of materials treated in this volume, most notably in the field of adsorbates and molecular systems.
Quantum Optics VI documents the most recent theoretical and experimental developments in this field, with particular emphasis on atomic optics and interferometry, which is a new and rapidly developing area of research.
Over the last two decades, the search for a compact, high-power semiconductor source has produced many designs and concepts for monolithic diode-laser arrays and optical amplifiers.
This volume summarizes the papers presented at the First Osaka University Macromolecular Symposium OUMS'93 on "e;Ordering in Macromolecular Systems"e;, which was held at Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan, on June 3 through June 6, 1993.
The current book describes the chemical and physical behavior of polymers and biopolymers that form highly associating structures in equilibrium solution.
Nanostructures and Quantum Effects documents the most recent developments in the field of quantum effects in semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum wires and boxes.
Laser Ablation provides a broad picture of the current understanding of laser ablation and its many applications, from the views of key contributors to the field.
