Description
Book SynopsisThis book is the third in a series of 4 books issued yearly as a deliverable of the research school established within the European Network of Excellence CMA (for Complex Metallic Alloys). It is written by reputed experts in the fields of surface physics and chemistry, metallurgy and process engineering, combining expertise found inside as well as outside the network.The CMA network focuses on the huge group of largely unknown multinary alloys and compounds formed with crystal structures based on giant unit cells containing clusters, with many tens or up to more than thousand atoms per unit cell. In these phases, for many phenomena, the physical length scales are substantially smaller than the unit-cell dimension. Hence, these materials offer unique combinations of properties, which are mutually excluded in conventional materials: metallic electric conductivity combined with low thermal conductivity, combination of good light absorption with high-temperature stability, combination of high metallic hardness with reduced wetting by liquids, electrical and thermal resistance tuneable by composition variation, excellent resistance to corrosion, reduced cold-welding and adhesion, enhanced hydrogen storage capacity and light absorption, etc.The series of books will concentrate on: development of fundamental knowledge with the aim of understanding materials phenomena, technologies associated with the production, transformation and processing of knowledge-based multifunctional materials, surface engineering, support for new materials development and new knowledge-based higher performance materials for macro-scale applications.
Table of ContentsProperties and Characterization of Thin Films (M Čekada); Chemical Vapor Deposition of Metals: From Unary Systems to Complex Metallic Alloys (C Vahlas); Physical Vapor Deposition of Thin Film Coatings (W Gulbinski); Engineering Analysis of Chemical Vapor Deposition Processes (A G Boudouvis); Surface Structure of Complex Metallic Alloys (R McGrath); Fundamentals of Surface Science: Are Complex Metallic Alloys - Especially Quasicrystals - Different from Simple Alloys or Elemental Metals? (P A Thiel); Clean and Oxisised Surfaces of Complex Metallic Alloys (V Fournee); Metal/Organic Surface and Interface Analysis and Its Application Studies on the Next Generation Electronic Devices (J Lee); Formation of the Interphase in Epoxy-Amine/Aluminium Joints: From Surface Corrosion to Metal Bonding (M-G Barthes-Labrousse et al.); Quasicrystals Dealing with Catalysis (A P Tsai & S Kameoka); The Hume-Rothery Rules for Structurally Complex Alloy Phases (U Mizutani);
