Competing Interactions and Microstructures: Statics and Dynamics : Proceedings of the CMS Workshop, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 5-8, 1987 /
Many macroscopic properties of materials are determined primarily by inhomogeneous structures and textures. These intermediate-scale structures often arise from competing interactions operating on different length scales within the material. Our understanding of such phenomena has increased substant...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1988.
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| Series: | Springer proceedings in physics ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Many macroscopic properties of materials are determined primarily by inhomogeneous structures and textures. These intermediate-scale structures often arise from competing interactions operating on different length scales within the material. Our understanding of such phenomena has increased substantially with the identification and theoretical description of solid-state materials with incommensurate and long-period modulated phases, such as ferroelectrics, charge-density-wave compounds, epitaxial layers and polytypes. Experimental diagnosis of inhomogeneous ground states and metastable phases has advanced so far that these are now well-accepted phenomena. These proceedings bring together the work of physicists and materials scientists to review developments in this area and to examine possible future directions, such as how the microscopic understanding emerging in bench-top solid-state systems can be applied in materials science. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 275 pages 160 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9783642734984 (electronic bk.) 3642734987 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0930-8989 ; |