The Physics of Amorphous Solids

The Physics of Amorphous Solids
Title The Physics of Amorphous Solids PDF eBook
Author Richard Zallen
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 318
Release 2008-07-11
Genre Science
ISBN 3527617973

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An in-depth study of non-crystalline solids in which the arrangement of the atoms do not have long-range order. Describes the way amorphous solids are formed, the phenomenology of the liquid-to-glass and glass- to-liquid transition, and the technological applications. Emphasizes modern approaches such as scaling, localization, and percolation. Includes extensive treatment of structural aspects of amorphous solids, ranging from metallic glasses, to chalcogenides, to organic polymers. Incorporates illustrations for the clarification of physics concepts.

Electronic Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials

Electronic Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials
Title Electronic Processes in Non-Crystalline Materials PDF eBook
Author Sir Nevill Francis Mott
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 605
Release 2012-02-02
Genre Science
ISBN 0199645337

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A reissue of a classic Oxford text. The book sets out theoretical concepts and makes comparisons with experiments for a wide variety of phenomena in non-crystalline materials.

The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids

The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids
Title The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids PDF eBook
Author L. David Pye
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
Pages 788
Release 1992
Genre Science
ISBN

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This text encapsulates the papers presented in 1991 at a conference organized by the Society of Glass Technology (held every six years). The complex physics and interdisciplinary nature of glass technology is emphasized. It includes information on resonance phenomena and ionic transport.

Amorphous Solids

Amorphous Solids
Title Amorphous Solids PDF eBook
Author William A. Phillips
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 179
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Science
ISBN 3642815340

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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. Since that time there has been a wide variety of experimental and theoretical studies which have not only defined and clarified the low temperature problem more closely, but have also linked these differences between amorphous and crystalline solids to those suggested by older acoustic and thermal experiments (extending up to 100 K). The interest in this somewhat restricted branch of physics lies to a considerable extent in the fact that the differences were so unexpected. It might be thought that as the tempera ture, probing frequency, or more generally the energy decreases, a continuum de scription in which structural differences between glass and crystal are concealed should become more accurate. In a sense this is true, but it appears that there exists in an amorphous solid a large density of additional excitations which have no counterpart in normal crystals. This book presents a survey of the wide range of experimental investigations of these low energy excitations, together with a re view of the various theoretical models put forward to explain their existence and nature.

The Structure of Non-crystalline Materials

The Structure of Non-crystalline Materials
Title The Structure of Non-crystalline Materials PDF eBook
Author Yoshio Waseda
Publisher McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Pages 358
Release 1980
Genre Science
ISBN

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The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids

The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids
Title The Physics of Non-crystalline Solids PDF eBook
Author Günther Heinz Frischat
Publisher
Pages 680
Release 1977
Genre Solids
ISBN

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Non-Crystalline Chalcogenicides

Non-Crystalline Chalcogenicides
Title Non-Crystalline Chalcogenicides PDF eBook
Author M.A. Popescu
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 385
Release 2006-04-11
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0306471299

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The earliest experimental data on an oxygen-free glass have been published by Schulz-Sellack in 1870 [1]. Later on, in 1902, Wood [2], as well as Meier in 1910 [3], carried out the first researches on the optical properties of vitreous selenium. The interest in the glasses that exhibit transparency in the infrared region of the optical spectrum rose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Firstly were investigated the heavy metal oxides and the transparency limit was extended from (the case of the classical oxide glasses) up to wavelength. In order to extend this limit above the scientists tried the chemical compositions based on the elements of the sixth group of the Periodic Table, the chalcogens: sulphur, selenium and tellurium. The systematic research in the field of glasses based on chalcogens, called chalcogenide glasses, started at the middle of our century. In 1950 Frerichs [4] investigated the glass and published the paper: “New optical glasses transparent in infrared up to 12 . Several years later he started the study of the selenium glass and prepared several binary glasses with sulphur [5]. Glaze and co-workers [6] developed in 1957 the first method for the preparation of the glass at the industrial scale, while Winter-Klein [7] published reports on numerous chalcogenides prepared in the vitreous state.