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Adsorption of Poly(vinyl formamide-co-vinyl amine) (PVFA-co-PVAm) onto Metal Surfaces
The formation of stable metal/polymer joints is an enormous challenge in material sciences. Good adhesion requires an interphase which is able to...
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Visualization of Charge Domains on Polymer Surfaces
The tribo-electric charging of polymers is widely known and applied in many technical processes. However, the molecular and electronic reasons for...
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Rhombohedral PZT Thin Films Prepared by Sputtering
PZT thin films with a rhombohedral perovskite structure were successfully grown on (111) PLT/Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si and (111) Ir/SiO2/Si substrates. The...
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Correlation Between Domain Structures and Dielectric Properties in Single Crystals of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions
In the present chapter, the growth of single crystals in relaxor–PbTiO3 (PT) solid solution system by the flux method and the solution Bridgman...
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Relaxor Superlattices: Artificial Control of the Ordered–Disordered State of B-Site Ions in Perovskites
We have developed a new superlattice technique to artificially control the B-site ordering state. The technique has been applied to Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3,...
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Pb-Based Ferroelectric Thin Films Prepared by MOCVD
This Chapter focuses on the preparation and ferroelectric properties of Pb-based thin films and nanostructures. First, the growth behavior of...
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Chemical Solution Depositionof Layer-Structured Ferroelectric Thin Films
Ferroelectric rare-earth-doped Bi4Ti3O12 thin films have been successfully prepared on Si-based substrates by using metallo-organic precursor...
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Magnetism of Ultrathin Metal Films
The last two chapters have described the growth and structure of epitaxial films. Here, the basic aspects of ultrathin-film magnetism and their...
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Growth of Ultrathin Metal Films
Driven by the requirement to tailor film properties for many technological applications, our understanding of the atomic processes involved in...
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Characterization of Floating Surface Layers of Lipids and Lipopolymers by Surface-Sensitive Scattering
Nanotechnology and molecular (bio-)engineering are making ever deepening inroads into everybody’s daily life. Physicochemical and biotechnological...
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Molecular Dynamics of Liquids in Confinement
Surface and confinement effects may have substantial effects on the molecular and collective dynamics of liquids. Within this chapter, we describe...
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Anisotropic Substrates
A prerequisite for infrared ellipsometry investigations of semiconductor layer structures is an accurate knowledge of the substrate materials’...
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Correlation Between Magnetism, Structure and Growth for Ultrathin Fe Films on Cu(100)
To obtain a comprehensive understanding of the correlation between the magnetism and structure of materials has been a research goal of scientists...
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Epitaxy-Stabilized Structures
Ultrathin films can be grown pseudomorphically on suitable substrates under certain growth conditions, even when the structure grown differs from the...
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Introduction
The ability of mankind to produce and process materials has been an important aspect of human development. This is reflected in the names of certain...
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4 × 4 Transfer Matrix T p for Dielectric Helical Films
Dielectric helical thin films (DHTF’s) are described by a homogeneous rotation of an arbitrarily oriented symmetric dielectric function tensor ɛ...
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Polaritons in Semiconductor Layer Structures
The infrared optical response of layered structures composed of polar semiconductor materials is strongly influenced by resonant excitation of...
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Infrared Model Dielectric Functions
This chapter reviews a selection of dielectric function models progressed for lineshape analysis of (far) infrared ellipsometry data. Contributions...
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NMR Studies of Cartilage – Dynamics, Diffusion, Degradation
An increasing number of people is suffering from rheumatic diseases, and, therefore, methods of early diagnosis of joint degeneration are urgently...
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Survey of Current Theoretical Schemes
With a view to the growing interest in heavy-ion stop**, theoretical schemes have been developed over the past few years aiming at calculating...