The subject matter of thin-films - which play a key role in microelectronics - divides naturally into two headings: the processing / structure relationship, and the structure / properties relationship.
Part II of 'Materials Science in Microelectronics' focuses on the latter of these relationship[...]

Based on a set of notes developed over years for an introductory in materials science. This book is about the application of thermodynamics and kinetics to solve problems within Materials Science. It provides students with the theory and mathematics to understand the important physical understanding[...]

In these twelve stories, Eugene McCabe plumbs the soul of the Irishborder counties, where confusion, divided loyalties, and conflict arepart of everyday life. A master of arresting dialogue and intimatecharacterisation, celebrated as a major playwright and author of one ofthe most important Irish no[...]

Designed for one-semester, advanced undergraduate or beginner graduate level courses in NMR Spectroscopy, or for courses that cover NMR Spectroscopy in addition to other spectra, this text offers coverage of classic one-dimensional, two-dimensional NMR and other methods. It also contains advice, the[...]

The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to be[...]

This science methods textbook is designed to provide middle and high school science teachers with the skills they need to help students become scientifically and technologically literate. To be successful, beginning teachers must master the basic functions of teaching. They are: * Understanding t[...]

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In "Rhinoceros" we are shown the innate brutality of people as everyone, except for Berenger, turn into clumsy, unthinking rhinoceroses. "The Chair[...]

Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's novel in verse follows the fates of three men and three women. It was Pushkin's own favourite work, and this new translation conveys the literal sense and the poe[...]

Ecologies of the Heart offers a highly readable new look at the range of approaches we use in thinking about environmental management. In answering the questions of why people hold beliefs about the environment that are 'counterfactual' - against the facts - to modern scientists, often making ecolog[...]

While scholars in political science, social psychology, and mass communications have made notable contributions to understanding democratic citizenship, they concentrate on very different dimensions of citizenship. The current volume challenges this fragmentary pattern of inquiry, and adopts an inte[...]

His Excellency Eugene Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the Second Empire, satirizing the corruption and cronyism at its heart.[...]