Fundamentals of beam-solid interactions and transient thermal processing

Abstract

This book contains papers presented at the Materials Research Society symposium on Fundamentals of Beam-Solid Interactions and Transient Processing. This symposium was devoted to fundamental aspects of the interactions of photon, ion, and electron beams with solids and to beam-induced phase transformations in materials. The material covered in this symposium focused on two distinct asreas. The first was phase transformations induced by ion or electron bombardment, including amorphization and interface motion. The second was the behavior of solids during various forms of annealing and quenching ranging in duration from femtoseconds to hours.