Disorder and Strain-Induced Complexity in Functional Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kakeshita, Tomoyuki (Editor), Fukuda, Takashi (Editor), Saxena, Avadh (Editor), Planes, Antoni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 148
• Subjects: Materials science.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Physics.; Structural materials.; Materials Science.; Structural Materials.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Applied and Technical Physics.

This book brings together an emerging consensus on our understanding of the complex functional materials including ferroics, perovskites, multiferroics, CMR and high-temperature superconductors. The common theme is the existence of many competing ground states and frustration as a collusion of spin,...

Table of Contents:

• Ferroics and multiferroics
• Principles of complexity in materials physics
• Understanding glassy phenomena in materials
• Soft electronic matter
• Hysteresis and avalanches
• High resolution visualization techniques: Structural aspects
• High resolution visualization techniques: Magnetic aspects
• Strain glasses and martensites
• Defects in ferroelectrics
• First principle calculations
• Nanoscale strain textures and interfaces: Magnetic Martensites
• Neutron scattering and shuffle based transitions: Precursor phenomena in magnetic materials
• Magnetostructural coupling and magnetocaloric properties in Heusler shape-memory alloys
• Ni-Mn-X Heusler materials
• Precusor nanoscale textures in martensites and magnetic materials
• Conclusion and future directions.