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

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.

Summary

Identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. Topics discussed in this book include technology, novel quantum phenomena and experimental and computational tools. It also addresses structural challenges for the field, and is useful to scientists, educators, students, and policymakers.

Product details

• Authors: Board On Physics And Astronomy, Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materi, Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics, Division on Engineering and Physical Sci, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Academy Of Sciences, National Research Council
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.1999
• EAN: 9780309063494
• ISBN: 978-0-309-06349-4
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Physics in a New Era; Physics in a New Era: A Series; Physics in a New Era
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics