Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization is a comprehensive volume on analytical techniques used in materials science for the characterization of surfaces, interfaces and thin films. This flagship volume in the Materials Characterization Series is a unique, stand-alone reference for materials science practitioners, process engineers, students and anyone with a need to know about the capabilities available in materials analysis. An encyclopedia of 50 concise articles, this book will also be a practical companion to the forthcoming books in the Series. It describes widely-ranging techniques in a jargon-free manner and includes summary pages for each technique to supply a quick survey of its capabilities.
This volume contains 50 articles describing analytical techniques for the characterization
of solid materials, with emphasis on surfaces, intedices, thin films,
and microanalytical approaches. It is part of the Materzah Characterization Series,
copublished by Buttenvorth-Heinemann and Manning. This volume can serve as a
stand-alone reference as well as a companion to the other volumes in the Series
which deal with individual materials classes. Though authored by professional
characterization experts the articles are written to be easily accessible to the
materials user, the process engineer, the manager, the student-in short to all those
who are not (and probably don’t intend to be) experts but who need to understand
the potential applications of the techniques to materials problems. Too often,
technique descriptions are written for the technique specialist.