The electron microscope

Description In recent years the development of new scientific instruments and techniques has made microanalysis an essential and powerful tool for the materials scie...

This chapter is an introduction to the concept of spin current, the detailed formulation of which is not simple by any means and is still a challenging undertaking. However, it is ...

Abstract Heavy electrons are found among a number of lanthanide and actinide compounds, and are characterized by a large effective mass which becomes comparable to t...

Abstract Direct methods are, at present, applied to a large variety of cases: X-ray, neutron or electron data; single crystal and powder data; small molecules and ma...

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is design...

Gout is a consequence of hyperuricaemia and the treatment goal is to dissolve the crystals by reducing serum urate levels. The first section of this chapter focuses on laboratory i...

Abstract The book gives accounts of non-quantum optical phenomena and of instruments and technology based on them, at a level suitable for the last two years of an h...

Description In the spring of 1985, when this symposium was first planned, the use of a microscope as an accessory in a Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectromete...