Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology

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National Academies Press, May 21, 1999 - Technology & Engineering - 324 pages
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This book identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. It highlights exciting recent scientific and technological developments and their societal impact and identifies outstanding questions for future research. Topics range from the science of modern technology to new materials and structures, novel quantum phenomena, nonequilibrium physics, soft condensed matter, and new experimental and computational tools.

The book also addresses structural challenges for the field, including nurturing its intellectual vitality, maintaining a healthy mixture of large and small research facilities, improving the field's integration with other disciplines, and developing new ways for scientists in academia, government laboratories, and industry to work together. It will be of interest to scientists, educators, students, and policymakers.

 

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Contents

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Executive Summary 1
Electronic Structure 231
Optical Materials and Phenomena 56
Science and Technology of Magnetism 75
Future Directions and Research Priorities 90
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New Tools for Research 225
Nanoproperties of Materials 231
Synchrotron Radiation 244
The Reinvention of Traditional CondensedMatter Experiments 253
Computational Materials Physics 262
Future Directions and Research Priorities 270
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Complex Fluids Macromolecular Systems

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Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology
National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
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TitleCondensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology
Physics in a New Era: A Series
AuthorsNational Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
PublisherNational Academies Press, 1999
ISBN0309063493, 9780309063494
Length324 pages
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