Characterization of Materials
About this reference work
The 2nd edition of this leading
reference work is now available with a foreword by condensed-matter
physicist, educator, and scientific community leader, Dr. Shirley
Jackson,
President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In
addition, it has been thoroughly
updated and expanded to cover the field’s many advances over the
decade since the publication of the first edition. It covers
materials characterization techniques ranging from the more mature
mechanical, thermal and electrical testing methods to those
state-of-the-art beam-based methods employed at large scientific
user facilities around the world. The ever increasing role of
computation to predict and understand materials properties is
supported by an updated chapter on computational and theoretical
methods as well.
First published in 2003, Characterization
of Materials quickly established itself as a leading
reference among professionals who wanted a concise but
comprehensive guide to finding the best characterization technique
for the project at hand. With this second edition, you also get the
latest on advances in instrumentation, techniques and analysis.
More powerful characterization tools have arisen in many areas
including all forms of scanning probe microscopes, more powerful
x-ray sources, a completely new generation of electron microscopes,
improved ways of using neutrons and neutron polarization, and far
more robust computing power for modeling and simulation.
Several articles reveal how these improved tools enabled
characterization of entirely new types of materials, including
nano-materials from quantum dots to nano-photonics to
nano-composites, studies of spintronics- and
quantum-computing-related systems, and the extension of materials
characterization techniques into areas that blur the boundaries
between physics, chemistry and biology, to name a few.
The 2nd edition is also
available as a 3-volume print set.
Review from the 1st edition:
"Overall the set contains important and concise descriptions of techniques that are otherwise very difficult to find…Highly recommended..." -Choice
