Amorphous Insulators and Semiconductors Book

Preface. 1: Glass Formation. Strong and Fragile Liquids; Glass Transitions and Polyamorphic Transitions in Covalently Bonded Glassformers; C.A. Angell. Kinetics of Glass Formation; I. Gutzov, A. Dobreva. Chalcogenide Glasses; M.T. Mora. Synthesis, Structure and Some Modes of Application of New Chalcogenide and Chalco-Halide Glasses of Silver; M. Mitkova. 2: Structure. X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction: Experimental Techniques and Data Analysis; A.C. Wright. Computer Modelling of Glasses and Glassy Alloys; N. Mousseau. Molecular Dynamics Methods and Large-Scale Simulations of Amorphous Materials; P. Vashishta, et al. Reverse Monte Carlo Simulations for Determining Disordered Structures: Basics and Application for Amorphous Semiconductors; L. Pusztai. Reverse Monte Carlo Simulations of Glasses - Practical Aspects; N. Zotov. A Thermodynamic Model for the Calculation of the Physical Properties and Structural Characteristics of Glasses and Melts; N.M. Vedishcheva, et al. High Resolution and Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Probes of Glass Structure; J.W. Zwanziger, et al. Porous Silica: Model Fractal Materials, their Structures and their Vibrations; E. Courtens, R. Vacher. 3: Vibrational States and Elasticity. The Structure and Mechanical Properties of Networks; M.F. Thorpe, et al. The Elastic Moduli of Random Networks: Calculations; A.R. Day. One-Fold Coordinated Atoms, Constraint Theory and Nano-Indentation Hardness; P. Boolchand, et al. Silicates and Soft Modes; M.T. Dove. Vibrational Dynamics in Glasses; C. Levelut, et al. Optical Studies of Nanophase Titania; R.J. Gonzalez, R. Zallen. 4: Electronic Properties and Defects. Electronic Structure Methods with Applications to Amorphous Semiconductors; D.A. Drabold. Amorphous Silicon: Defects and Disorder; G.J. Andriaenssens. Tunneling States; S. Hunklinger. Electronic Structure of Amorphous Insulators and Semiconductors by X-Ray Photoelectron and Soft X-Ray Spectroscopies; C. Sénémaud. Participants. Index.