Physics and Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Inorganic Conductors

The field of low-dimensional conductors has been very active for more than twenty years. It has grown continuously and both the inorganic and organic materials have remark­ able properties, such as charge and spin density waves and superconductivity. The discovery of superconductivity at high temperature in copper-based quasi two-dimensional conducting oxides nearly ten years ago has further enlarged the field and stimulated new research on inorganic conductors. It was obviously impossible to cover such a broad field in a ten day Institute and it seemed pertinent to concentrate on inorganic conductors, excluding the high Tc superconducting oxides. In this context, it was highly desirable to include both physics and chemistry in the same Institute in order to tighten or in some cases to establish links between physicists and chemists. This Advanced Study Institute is the continuation of a series of similar ones which have taken place every few years since 1974. 73 participants coming from 13 countries have taken part in this School at the beautiful site of the Centre de Physique des Houches in the Mont-Blanc mountain range. The scientific programme included more than forty lectures and seminars, two poster sessions and ten short talks. Several discussion sessions were organized for the evenings, one on New Materials, one on New Topics and one on the special problem of the Fermi and Luttinger liquids. The scientific activity was kept high from the beginning to the end of the Institute.

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Materials and Chemistry: An Introduction to the Design of Lowdimensional Solids; J. Rouxel. Molybdenum and Tungsten Bronzes: Lowdimensional Metals with Unusual Properties; M. Greenblatt. Nanostructures of Lowdimensional Oxides: Nature and Role of Defects M. Hervieu. Misfit Layer Compounds (MX)1+x(TX)2m M=Pb, Bi, Sn; T=Ti, V, Cr, Ta, Nb; X=S, Se, 0.08 < £Y/Y£ < 0.28; n = 1, 2, 3; J. Rouxel, A. Meerschaut. Clusters in Reduced Molybdenum and Tungsten Oxideand Sulfide Systems; R.E. McCarley. New Materials from Reactions in Intermediate Temperature Molten Salts: Synthetic Methodologies for Multinary Solid State Chalcogenides; M.G. Kanatzidis. Introduction to Charge Density Waves, Spin Density Waves and Wigner Crystals: Density Waves in Solids; G. Grüner. Charge Density Waves in Quasi Two Dimensional Conductors: Molybdenum and Phosphate Tungsten Bronzes; C. Schlenker. Organic Superconductors and Spin Density Waves; D. Jérome. Wigner Crystals; P.B. Littlewood; et al. Structural Studies: Structural and Dynamical Aspects of the Charge Density Wave Instability; J.P. Pouget. Incommensurately Modulated Structuresof Inorganic Charge Density Wave Compounds; S. van Smaalen. Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy on Charge Density Wave and Related Materials; R. Wiesendanger. Interpreting Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy Images; M.H. Whangbo, J. Ren. Electronic Structures: Theory and Experiment: The Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides; P.A. Cox. Fermi Surface Nesting and ElectronicInstabilities in Transition Metal Oxides and Bronzes; E. Canadell, M.H. Whangbo. Structural and Electronic Instabilities of Transition Metal Chacogenides; M.H. Whangbo, et al. Photoemission Studies in Transition Metal Chalcogenides; D.Malterre, et al. Angle Resolved Photoemission and Resonant Photoemission Studies of Quasi Lowdimensional Oxide Conductors: Fermi Surface and Defects; K.E. Smith, et al. Fermi and Luttinger Liquids in Lowdimensional Metals; C. Castellani, C. DiCastro. Thermal Properties and Excitations: Thermal Lattice Fluctuations in Quasi Onedimensional Conductors: OpticalExperiments; L. Degiorgi, et al. Elastic and Thermal Properties of Lowdimensional Conductors; J.W. Brill. Glassy Behavior and Metastability in the Charge or Spin Density Wave State; K. Biljakovic. Dynamics of Charge and Spin Density Waves: Nonlinear Transport, Dislocations, and Plasticity: Introduction to Charge Density Wave Transport: Basic Phenomena and Models; P. Monceau. Theory of Charge and Spin Density Wave Transport; W. Wonneberger. Dislocations in the Charge Density Wave State of Nobium Triselenide: I Phase Slip Properties: II Bulk Charge Density Wave Transport; J.C. Gill. Charge Density Wave Dynamics in the Blue Bronzes A0.30MoO3; (A = K, Rb); J. Dumas. Photoinduced Properties of Charge Density Wave Materials; G. Mihaly. 2 additional articles. Index.