Intense rainfall floods Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the world’s fastest-growing megacities, year in and year out, and those in the city’s slums and shanties are usually the most affected. Low-lying floo
Contains papers from an April 2000 symposium on the growth of amorphous and heterogeneous films, their ordering transitions, and the creation and annealing of deleterious metastable defects, as well a
From the April 1999 symposium, 130-plus contributions range in coverage from fundamental research on materials to their many device applications. Arrangement of papers is in sections on growth and pr
