High-Temperature Levitated Materials

Informationen zum Autor David L. Price is Director of Research at Conditions Extrêmes et Matériaux: Haute Température et Irradiation (CEMHTI), Orléans, France. His research interests include order and disorder in solids and liquids, dynamics of disordered systems, the glass transition and melting, neutron diffraction with isotope substitution, deep inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering, and anomalous, high-energy and inelastic X-ray scattering. Klappentext Summarizes levitation techniques for researchers in physics, physical chemistry and materials science, and professionals in aerospace and high-temperature materials processing. Zusammenfassung Describing several methods of levitation! this book summarizes the state-of-the-art of levitation techniques! and explores the concepts behind the experiments and associated theoretical ideas. Aimed at researchers in physics! physical chemistry and materials science! the book will also interest professionals working in high-temperature materials processing and the aerospace industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Scientific and technological context; 2. Levitation methods; 3. Heating methods; 4. Experimental techniques; 5. Levitation in materials research; 6. Liquid metals and alloys; 7. Molten semiconductors; 8. Molten oxides; 9. Conclusions and prospects; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David L Price, David L. Price, David L. (Centre National De La Recherche S Price, David L. (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Price
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2010
• EAN: 9780521880527
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88052-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Physics / General, Materials science, Atomic & molecular physics, Mechanical Engineering & Materials