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Disorder and Strain-Induced Complexity in Functional Materials

By Ekhard K. H. Salje , Jason C. Lashley (auth.) , Tomoyuki Kakeshita , Takashi Fukuda , Avadh Saxena , Antoni Planes (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2012
ISBN
978-3-642-20942-0, 978-3-642-20943-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-20943-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10201439 bytes)
Series
Springer Series in Materials Science 148
Edition
1
Pages
308\315
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
CompositesGlassMagnetic Materials;CeramicsNatural Methods;Nanoscale Science and Technology;AStructural Materials;Magnetism

Description

This book brings together an emerging consensus on our understanding of the complex functional materials including ferroics, perovskites, multiferroics, CMR and high-temperature superconductors. The common theme is the existence of many competing ground states and frustration as a collusion of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom in the presence of disorder and (both dipolar and elastic) long-range forces. An important consequence of the complex unit cell and the competing interactions is that the emergent materials properties are very sensitive to external fields thus rendering these materials with highly desirable, technologically important applications enabled by cross-response.

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