Atom movements / / Jean Philibert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EDP Sciences Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Philibert, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Les Ulis : : EDP Sciences, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Hors collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (602 p.)

The present book is the result of diverse courses on diffusion. It is intended to give as complete an overview as possible of diffusion in solid media, while relating the process of diffusion to both their physical bases and their applications. A series of a real situations is covered in this account, from self-diffusion of radiotracers to the more complex cases of mass flow under chemical or thermal gradients or under electric fields, or diffusion in structures of lower dimensionality (surfaces and interfaces). In all these analyses, no category of materials was favored; metals, ionic crystals, oxydes, and semiconductors all had their turn. Only polymers were not specifically touched. One chapter is specifically devoted to techniques for studying diffusion, including methods of numerical simulation, and a last and long chapter gives a number of metallurgical phenomena in which diffusion plays a fundamental role.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Translator’s Acknowledgments -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- General Bibliography -- Notation -- CHAPTER I: DIFFUSION AND DRIFT -- CHAPTER II: ATOMIC THEORY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER III: DIFFUSION MECHANISMS AND CORRELATION EFFECTS -- CHAPTER IV: SELF-DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER V: SOLUTE DIFFUSION IN PURE MATERIALS. DIFFUSION IN ALLOYS -- CHAPTER VI: DIFFUSION AND DRIFT IN ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS -- CHAPTER VII: DIFFUSION IN MEDIA OF LOWER DIMENSIONALITY -- CHAPTER VIII: PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER IX: TECHNIQUES FOR THE STUDY OF DIFFUSION -- CHAPTER X: THE STUDY OF SOME DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED PROCESSES -- EXERCISES -- INDEX