The symposium was held during the 1994 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society. Broadly interdisciplinary, it brought together materials scientists and engineers, condensed matter physicists, p
The symposium, held as part of the 1994 MRS Spring Meeting, addressed the fundamental physics and chemistry of scintillator and phosphor materials in an effort to increase the understanding of the pro
Proceedings of the symposium on [title], held at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, November-December 1992. The purpose of the symposium was to bring together the many disparate communities that use comp
Papers presented at a meeting held in Boston, Mass., Dec. 1991 discuss: interface motion, roughening, wetting and faceting, growth kinetics and morphology, step flow microstructure evolution in film g
These proceedings of the symposium held November and December 2005 include material on interband and intersubband transitions in semiconductor, including II-V, IV, and II-VI in terms of materials and
Papers from an April 2002 meeting present recent work on texture and microstructure in electronic and magnetic films, and on nanostructural magnetic materials for data storage, examining areas such as
Proceedings of an April 2000 symposium, highlighting achievements and challenges in advanced interconnects and low-k dielectrics as employed in the microelectronics industry. Major themes are the repl
Comprising the proceedings of an MRS symposium held in April of 1998, contributions in this volume are divided into ten sections: interconnection frontiers; aluminum interconnects; cobalt and other si
Papers from an April 1998 symposium are arranged, as was the symposium, in two sections, the first on materials for high-density magnetic recording--head materials for write transducers and readback s
Knot insertion and deletion algorithms are the two fundamental procedures used to understand, analyze, and render B-spline curves and surfaces. Papers cover blossoming, algorithms for progressive curv
The emphasis of the November 2000 symposium is on the guidance that computer modeling can give in designing experiments and in their interpretation, and the guidance suggested by experiments and chara
This three-volume book, first published in 1841, originated in a journal written by the music critic Chorley while travelling in Europe. His aim was to ‘illustrate the present state of theatrical, orc
In these proceedings from the November-December 2004 symposium, contributors describe their work in electron microscopy as it relates to materials science, such as atomic and subatomic imaging and spe
Papers from an April 2001 symposium held in San Francisco during the Materials Research Society spring meeting. About 70 international authors focus on topics relevant to surface and microstructure ev
A significant portion of these papers from a winter 2000 symposium examine materials and devices at the nano-scale, with work on self-organized structures as well as nano-patterned thin-film structure
This refereed volume arose from the recognition that scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are independently developing solutions to problems of parallelization. The cross-disciplinary field of
"Teaching fundamental design concepts and the challenges of emerging technology, this textbook prepares students for a career designing the computer systems of the future. In-depth coverage of complex
Papers from a November 2000 symposium review multidisciplinary activities in the field, focusing on all aspects of anisotropy on the nanoscale, including anisotropy resulting from shape, juxtaposition
Proceedings from the first symposium on zinc oxide and related materials, held in Boston, Massachusetts during November, 2006. The proceedings volume contains 67 contributions selected from the 200-pl
According to the editors (collectively of 3M Company, JPL/Caltech, Auburn U., Pennsylvania State U., and Canada's U. of British Columbia), the research and development interest in electroresponsive po
Nanostructures of semiconductors and metals show novel optical and transport properties, and offer the perspective of designing materials properties with unprecedented flexibility and control. This 20
These 99 papers from the December 2003 symposium report on the synthesis, characterization, and properties of nanophase, nanocomposite, nanoporous, and nanostructured materials that are currently bein
The 38 papers apply basic and experimental approaches, theoretical modelling, and computational simulations to fundamental actinide science and to the role such science might play in resolving challen
Primarily, but not solely, drawn from the November 2001 symposium, 43 papers discuss industrial and technological applications and related topics dealing with polymer interfaces and thin films. The pa
Fractal Geometry is a new mathematical tool for describing nature. Through this we may uncover connections between the arts and sciences, uncommonly seen in maths and science classes. This book will a
Contains the contents of two symposia, both held in November 2001: the first part of the volume presents Symposium EE, "Electroactive Polymers and Their Applications as Actuators, Sensors, and Artific
Eighty-six papers from the November 2001 Boston conference cover nanocomposite and nanofiber materials, nanostructures, nanophase materials, synthesis and characterization, applications and properties
Material systems with high refractive index contrast and their processing, micro-cavities and spontaneous emission enhancement, high-speed photonics and non-linear optics, tuning and detuning resonato
Fifth-two papers from November 1999 symposium present new research and applications in magnetic oxide materials. The main topics are spin polarization and tunneling, transport and optical properties,
The influence of cognitive processing on second language acquisition (SLA), and on the development of second language (SL) instruction, has always been a subject of major interest to both SLA research
Through hard experience mathematicians have learned to subject even the most 'evident' assertions to rigorous scrutiny, as intuition can often be misleading. This book collects and analyses a mass of
Proceedings of the symposium held April, 1999. Contains 42 papers discussing various aspects of epitaxial growth, including sections on growth mechanisms (including discussions of self-organization o
Contains papers from an April 1999 meeting, emphasizing areas of research including polymer-dispersed liquid crystal technology, twisted smetic materials and applications, non-traditional LC materials
Presents 63 articles from the spring 1998 symposium which collectively bring together the two subsets of the study of hydrogen in condensed materials in order that advances in one field can be more ef
The 75 papers cover surface and step structure; morphology, roughness, and instabilities; kinetic processes; nucleation on surfaces and interfaces; the mechanics of surfaces; self- assembled and Langm
Contains papers from the December 1996 symposium, highlighting work on thin films for applications in technologies including microelectronics, optics, biomedical technologies, and MEMS. Contains secti
