Diffusion in solids : fundamentals, methods, materials, diffusion-controlled processes

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Diffusion in solids : fundamentals, methods, materials, diffusion-controlled processes

Helmut Mehrer

(Springer series in solid-state sciences, 155)

Springer, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book describes the central aspects of diffusion in solids, and goes on to provide easy access to important information about diffusion in metals, alloys, semiconductors, ion-conducting materials, glasses and nanomaterials. Coverage includes diffusion-controlled phenomena including ionic conduction, grain-boundary and dislocation pipe diffusion. This book will benefit graduate students in such disciplines as solid-state physics, physical metallurgy, materials science, and geophysics, as well as scientists in academic and industrial research laboratories.

Table of Contents

History and Bibliography of Diffusion.- History and Bibliography of Diffusion.- Fundamentals of Diffusion.- Continuum Theory of Diffusion.- Solutions of the Diffusion Equation.- Random Walk Theory and Atomic Jump Process.- Point Defects in Crystals.- Diffusion Mechanisms.- Correlation in Solid-State Diffusion.- Dependence of Diffusion on Temperature and Pressure.- Isotope Effect of Diffusion.- Interdiffusion and Kirkendall Effect.- Diffusion and External Driving Forces.- Irreversible Thermodynamics and Diffusion.- Experimental Methods.- Direct Diffusion Studies.- Mechanical Spectroscopy.- Nuclear Methods.- Electrical Methods.- Diffusion in Metallic Materials.- Self-diffusion in Metals.- Diffusion of Interstitial Solutes in Metals.- Diffusion in Dilute Substitutional Alloys.- Diffusion in Binary Intermetallics.- Diffusion in Quasicrystalline Alloys.- Diffusion in Semiconductors.- General Remarks on Semiconductors.- Self-diffusion in Elemental Semiconductors.- Foreign-Atom Diffusion in Silicon and Germanium.- Interstitial-Substitutional Diffusion.- Diffusion and Conduction in Ionic Materials.- Ionic Crystals.- Fast Ion Conductors.- Diffusion in Glasses.- The Glassy State.- Diffusion in Metallic Glasses.- Diffusion and Ionic Conduction in Oxide Glasses.- Diffusion along High-Diffusivity Paths and in Nanomaterials.- High-diffusivity Paths in Metals.- Grain-Boundary Diffusion.- Dislocation Pipe Diffusion.- Diffusion in Nanocrystalline Materials.

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  • NCID
    BA82547964
  • ISBN
    • 9783540714866
  • LCCN
    2007923017
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 651 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Classification
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