Competing Interactions and Microstructures: Statics and Dynamics: Proceedings of the CMS Workshop, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 5–8, 1987 (Springer Proceedings in Physics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540190449 ISBN 13: 9783540190448

Publisher: Springer, 1988

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 3540190449
• ISBN 13: 9783540190448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275
• Editor: Richard LeSar, Alan R. Bishop, Robert Heffner