Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Modulated Structure Materials, Maleme-Chania, Greece, June 15-25, 1983

Inhalt

Modulated Structure Materials: A Selected Review.- 1: Theoretical Aspects of Modulated Structures.- Modulated Structures in a Simple Ising Model.- Composition Modulations in Solid Solutions.- Metal Insulator Transition in Modulated Crystals.- A New Theory of Polytypism.- Densities of States of Compositionally Modulated Alloys.- Time Evolution of Phase Separation in Binary Mixtures.- 2: Crystallography of Modulated Structures.- The Incommensurate Crystalline Phase and its Symmetry.- Superspace Transformation Properties of Incommensurate Irreducible Distortions.- Crystal Structures of Complex Sulfides: From Modulated to Modular Structures.- 3: Diffraction Methods.- High Resolution Electron Microscopy Study of Manganese Silicides.- The Use of High Resolution Electron Microscopy in the Study of Modulated Structures in Alloy Systems.- Electron Microscopic Study of Modulated Structures in (Au,Ag)Te2.- Incommensurate Structures in the Long-Period Ordered Alloys Studied by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy.- Analysis of Diffuse Scattering from Composition Modulations in Concentrated Alloys.- Neutron Investigation of Modulated Structure.- Atom Probe Field-Ion Microscopy Studies of Modulated Structures.- 4: Mechanics of Modulated Structures.- The Elastic Theory of the Defect Solid Solution.- On the Mechanics of Modulated Structure.- The Effect of Strain on the Elastic Constants of Copper.- 5: Spinodal Structures.- Mechanical Behavior of Spinodal Alloys.- A Numerical Study of Kinetics in Spinodal Decomposition.- 6: Composition Modulated Films.- Manufacture of Ternary Thin Film Layered Foils by Controlled Evaporation.- Theoretical Approaches to Understanding the Properties of Modulated Structures - A Review.- Mechanical and Thermoelectric Behavior of Composition Modulated Foils.- Effects of Short Wavelength Composition Modulations on Interdiffusion in Silver-Palladium Thin Foil.- Compositionally Modulated Metallic Glasses.- Electrical Properties of Multilayered Cr/Si02 Thin Films.- 7: Semiconductor Superlattices.- Tailored Semiconductors: Compositional and Doping Superlattices.- 8: Modulations in Solids.- Premartensitic Behavior and Charge Density Waves in TiNi Alloys.- Electronic Contributions to Mixing- and Gradient- Energy of Composition-Modulated Alloy System.- Mechanical Behavior of Solid Film Adhesives with Scrim Carrier Cloths.- Orientational Phase Transitions in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductor.- Electron-Libron Pairing in Quasi-One-Dimensional Conductors.