Physics, Fabrication, and Applications of Multilayered Structures: 182 (NATO Science Series B:, 182) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475700938 ISBN 13: 9781475700930

Publisher: Springer, 2013

Synopsis

Low-dimensional materials are of fundamental interest in physics and chemistry and have also found a wide variety of technological applica­ tions in fields ranging from microelectronics to optics. Since 1986, several seminars and summer schools devoted to low-dimensional systems have been supported by NATO. The present one, Physics, Fabrication and Applications of Multilayered structures, brought together specialists from different fields in order to review fabrication techniques, charac­ terization methods, physics and applications. Artificially layered materials are attractive because alternately layering two (or more) elements, by evaporation or sputtering, is a way to obtain new materials with (hopefully) new physical properties that pure materials or alloys do not allow. These new possibilities can be ob­ tained in electronic transport, optics, magnetism or the reflectivity of x-rays and slow neutrons. By changing the components and the thickness of the layers one can track continuously how the new properties appear and follow the importance of the multilayer structure of the materials. In addition, with their large number of interfaces the study of inter­ face properties becomes easier in multilayered structures than in mono­ layers or bilayers. As a rule, the role of the interface quality, and also the coupling between layers, increases as the thickness of the layer decreases. Several applications at the development stage require layer thicknesses of just a few atomic layers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475700938
• ISBN 13: 9781475700930
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429
• Editor: Weisbuch Claude