Book Description:
Materials science includes those parts of chemistry and physics that deal with the properties of materials. It encompasses four classes of materials, the study of each of which may be considered a separate field: metals; ceramics; polymers and composites. Materials science is often referred to as materials science and engineering because it has many applications. Industrial applications of materials science include processing techniques (casting, rolling, welding, ion implantation, crystal growth, thin-film deposition, sintering, glassblowing, etc.), analytical techniques (electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, calorimetry, nuclear microscopy (HEFIB) etc.), materials design, and cost/benefit tradeoffs in industrial production of materials. This book presents new and important research in the field including an Expert Commentary on carbon nanotube electronics.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Expert Commentary

Carbon Nanotube Electronics in the CMOS-Scaling World; pp. 3-4
(Jimmy Xu, Brown Univ., Providence, RI)

Future trends in development of multilayers for X–EUV optics;
pp. 5-96
(Eva Majkova, Stefan Luby, Matej Jergel, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

Research and Review Studies

Chapter 1 - Interface Properties and Thermal Stability of Multilayers for X-EUV Optics; pp. 9-38
(Eva Majkova, Stefan Luby, Matej Jergel, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)

Chapter 2 - Generalized Landen Transformation (Formulas for Jacobi Elliptic Functions); pp. 39-62
(Avinash Khare, Institute of Physics, Orissa, India, Uday Sukhatme, Dept. of Physics, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York)

Chapter 3 - Experimental Material Characterization of Active Fiber Composite Actuators for Structural Control Applications; pp. 63-98
(Viresh K. Wickramasinghe, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council Canada, Ontario, Canada, Nesbitt W. Hagood, Continuum Photonics, Inc., Billerica, MA)

Chapter 4 - Influence of a Superconducting Transition on the Macroscopic Characteristics of the Plasticity of Metals and Alloys: Fundamental and Applied Aspects; pp. 99-182
(V.V. Pustovalov, V.S. Fomenko, B.I. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine)

Chapter 5 - Advanced Ta-based Diffusion Barriers for Cu Interconnects; pp. 183-243
(Rene Hubner, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany)

Chapter 6 - Magnetic Nanopatterned Films; pp. 245-276
(Andrei A. Eliseev, Alexey V. Lukashin, Dept. of Materials Science, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ., Moscow, Russia, Sergey V. Grigoriev, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany)

Chapter 7 - Electrical and Infrared Properties of RF sputtering Rare Earth Nickelate (RNiO3) Thin Films with Metal-Insulator Transition; pp. 277-310
(P. Laffez, P. Ruello, M. Edely, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Etat Condense, Univ. du Maine, Le Mans Cedex, France)

Chapter 8 - Analysis of Tensile Properties of Aluminium Sheets using Digital Speckle Correlation; pp. 311-328
(S. Dumoulin, H. Bjerkaas, P. Braten, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)

Chapter 9 - Influence of Thermomechanical Treatment on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Weather Resistant Steel; pp. 329-339
(S.N. Prasad, Research and Development Centre for Iron and Steel, Steel Authority of India, Ranchi, India, D.S. Sarma, Metallurgical Engineering Dept., Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu Univ., Varanasi, India)

Index