Relaxation Phenomena
Subtitle: Liquid Crystals, Magnetic Systems, Polymers, High-Tc Superconductors, Metallic Glasses
By: edited by Wolfgang Haase, Stanislaw Wróbel
Contributors: Wróbel, Stanislaw
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 716
ISBN-13: 9783642079245; 9783662097472
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry; Polymers; Physics
Description: The authors describe the electric, magnetic and other relaxational processes in a wide spectrum of materials: liquid crystals, molecular magnets, polymers, high-Tc superconductors and glasses. The book summarizes the phenomenological fundamentals and the experimental methods used. A detailed description of molecular and collective dynamics in the broad range of liquid crystals is presented. Magnetic systems, high-Tc superconductors, polymers and glasses are an important subject of matter. It is shown that the researchers working on relaxation processes in different fields of materials sciences are dealing with the same physical fundamentals, but are sometimes using slightly different terms. The book is addressed to scientists, engineers, graduate and undergraduate students, experimentalists and theorists in physics, chemistry, materials sciences and electronic engineering. Many internationally well known experts contribute to it.
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Table of contents: title: From the contents: Relaxation phenomena in physics and chemistry; title: Experimental methods of investigating relaxation phenomena in condensed matter; title: Relaxation phenomena in liquid crystals; title: Special aspects of relaxation phenomena in magnetic systems; title: Relaxation phenomena in high-Tc superconducting systems, nonlinear optical polymers and metallic glasses.