Applications of synchrotron radiation techniques to materials science III

Abstract

As third-generation synchrotron facilities are constructed and go online both in the US and in foreign countries, even more applications of synchrotron radiation will be realized. Both basic and applied research possibilities are manyfold, including studies of materials mentioned below and those that are yet to be performed. Also, the combination of synchrotron-based spectroscopic techniques with ever increasing high-resolution microscopy allows researchers to study very small domains of materials in an attempt to understand their chemical and electronic properties. This is especially important in the area of composites and other related materials involving material-bonding interfaces. The topics covered in this symposium included surface studies, interfacial phenomena, electronic materials, metal oxides, glasses, thin films, superconductors, polymers, alloys, multilayer metal systems, and intermetallic compounds. Results reported at this symposium relate recent advances in x-ray absorption, scattering, imaging, tomography, microscopy, and topography methods. Separate abstracts were prepared for most papers in this volume.