Defects with materials

Abstract

This volume represents the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium held by MRS on the Characterization of Defects in Materials. Like its predecessors, the symposium was designed to be broad in scope and cover the structure and properties of all types of defects in all classes of materials. To a large extent this goal was achieved since papers were presented describing investigations on point, line, and planar defects (including surfaces) in metals, alloys, polymers, ceramics, amorphous materials, semiconductors, superconductors, composites and intercalated fibers. The wide variety of systems studied clearly reflects the importance of defects in materials science. While experimental investigations still dominated the symposium, a significant fraction of contributions focused on theory and simulation. This book contains 142 of the 206 papers presented in both oral and poster sessions representing contributions from fourteen different countries.