Books in the Springer Series in Materials Science series

To meet the demands of students, scientists and engineers for a systematic reference source, this book introduces, comprehensively and in a single voice, research and development progress in emerging metamaterials and derived functional metadevices.

The reader can verify the advantage of volume pulse electrical heating before surface laser heating to study the physical properties of carbon, including enthalpy, heat capacity, electrical resistivity and temperature.

This revised, updated and expanded new edition presents an overview of biomimetics and biologically inspired structured surfaces. The focus in the book is on the Lotus Effect, Salvinia Effect, Rose Petal Effect, Oleophobic/philic Surfaces, Shark Skin Effect, and Gecko Adhesion.

With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures.

This book deals with the chemistry of polymeric metal chelates. The main results and the production and chemical structure of polymers with chelate units as well as the specificity of metal complex binding of different structure are presented here.

This book presents the main research advances in the field of photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials. The first chapter discusses the fundamental principles, ranging from rare earth, rare earth luminescence, luminescent rare earth compounds and photofunctional rare earth hybrid materials.

This book focuses on recently developed crystal growth techniques to grow large and high quality superconducting single crystals. Detailed single crystal growth methods (fluxes, Bridgman, floating zone), the associated procedures and their impact to crystal size and quality are presented.

This book introduces the fascinating world of plasmonics and physics at the nanoscale, with a focus on simulations and the theoretical aspects of optics and nanotechnology.

This book focuses on the behaviour of nanomaterials under extreme conditions of high temperature, irradiation by electron/ions and neutrons as well as in mechanical and corrosion extremes.

This book presents the physico-technical basis and current state of the technology of boronized layers. This is important for the mining industry, agriculture, textile and chemical industry. The book is important for thermochemical treatment and surface hardening of metals and alloys.

This book provides a comprehensiveoverview of the theory and practical development of metamaterial-based perfectabsorbers (MMPAs). The theoretical background and fundamental working principles ofMMPAs are then discussed, providing the necessary background on how MMPAs workand are constructed.

This interdisciplinary work on condensed matter physics, the continuum mechanics of novel materials, and partial differential equations, discusses the mathematical theory of elasticity and hydrodynamics of quasicrystals, as well as its applications.

This book presents an overview of material-specific factors that influence Tc and give rise to diverse Tc values for copper oxides and iron-based high- Tc superconductors on the basis of more than 25 years of experimental data, to most of which the author has made important contributions.

This book covers in a textbook-like fashion the basics or organic solar cells, addressing the limits of photovoltaic energy conversion and giving a well-illustrated introduction to molecular electronics with focus on the working principle and characterization of organic solar cells.

Bridging the disciplinary divide between physics and chemistry, this book presents a new type of solar cell technology with many controllable properties and an extremely promising application as components of photoactive layers derived from liquid media.

This up-to-date monograph provides a thorough review of the relevant data and properties of the transition-metal impurities generated during silicon-sample and device fabrication. This new edition includes important recent data and many new tables.

This book gives a survey of the current state of the art of a special class of nitrides semiconductors, Wurtzite Nitride and Oxide Semiconductors. Research in the area of nitrides semiconductors is still booming although some basic materials sciences issues were solved already about 20 years ago.

This book examines material composites used in connection with brake friction, their design and safety. Friction materials find wide-ranging applications in household and industrial appliances, brake pads for automotive applications, rail brake friction pads and composition brake blocks.

This book explains friction micro-dynamics, gives a survey of dynamic micro-processes in solids, and presents the idea of relativistic tribology. It also discusses the physical structure of solids tribo-surfaces.

This volume covers the basics and applications of thermoelectricity and thermoelectric materials. It presents the theory in sufficient detail to enable researchers to understand their observations and develop improved thermoelectric materials.

This book surveys size- and shape-dependent effects in nanoferroics, the properties of these materials, approaches for describing size-dependent effects and chemical and physico-chemical nanofabrication methods for making nanoferroic materials and composites.

This book covers practical aspects of mass measurements, describing concepts of gravitational, inertial and conventional mass and the variation of acceleration of gravity, and Metric Convention and International Prototype Kilogram and BIPM standards.

This book presents a unified approach to understanding the diverse phenomena observed at metal-dielectric interfaces. It offers a clear account of the relationship between interface science and its applications in interconnect structures.

This book examines the physics of transformation of internal structures of diamonds subjected to high-temperature and high-pressure treatment and discusses how these transformations can be detected using methods of optical microscopy and spectroscopy.