INSULATING AND SEMICONDUCTING GLASSES (DIRECTIONS IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS)

INSULATING AND SEMICONDUCTING GLASSES (DIRECTIONS IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS)

A textbook for graduate students entering glass science, but also a reference for practicing researchers interested in the application of the materials in the physical sciences and engineering. Physicists from laboratories throughout the world focus on inorganic materials that encompass a variety of optical and electronic materials, but do not consider either glasses based on metallic systems or organic polymers. Among the topics they do cover are glass formation and the nature of the glass transitions, the generic phenomenology of glass formation, investigating glass structure with scattering methods and spectroscopy, tunneling systems in crystalline and amorphous solids, molecular dynamic simulations of network glasses, chalcohalide glasses, and such applications as real-time optical recording on thin films of amorphous semiconductors. Materials as well as subjects are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)