Diffusion in Solids

Physicists, chemists, metallurgists and materials engineers in academic and industrial research laboratories will benefit from this book as will graduate students in solid state physics, physical metallurgy, materials science, physical and inorganic chemistry or geophysics.

Most comprehensive and modern one on diffusion in the various classes of materials Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
History and Bibliography of Diffusion.- History and Bibliography of Diffusion.- Fundamentals of Diffusion.- Continuum Theory of Diffusion.- Solutions of the Diffusion Equation.- Random Walk Theory and Atomic Jump Process.- Point Defects in Crystals.- Diffusion Mechanisms.- Correlation in Solid-State Diffusion.- Dependence of Diffusion on Temperature and Pressure.- Isotope Effect of Diffusion.- Interdiffusion and Kirkendall Effect.- Diffusion and External Driving Forces.- Irreversible Thermodynamics and Diffusion.- Experimental Methods.- Direct Diffusion Studies.- Mechanical Spectroscopy.- Nuclear Methods.- Electrical Methods.- Diffusion in Metallic Materials.- Self-diffusion in Metals.- Diffusion of Interstitial Solutes in Metals.- Diffusion in Dilute Substitutional Alloys.- Diffusion in Binary Intermetallics.- Diffusion in Quasicrystalline Alloys.- Diffusion in Semiconductors.- General Remarks on Semiconductors.- Self-diffusion in Elemental Semiconductors.- Foreign-Atom Diffusion in Silicon and Germanium.- Interstitial-Substitutional Diffusion.- Diffusion and Conduction in Ionic Materials.- Ionic Crystals.- Fast Ion Conductors.- Diffusion in Glasses.- The Glassy State.- Diffusion in Metallic Glasses.- Diffusion and Ionic Conduction in Oxide Glasses.- Diffusion along High-Diffusivity Paths and in Nanomaterials.- High-diffusivity Paths in Metals.- Grain-Boundary Diffusion.- Dislocation Pipe Diffusion.- Diffusion in Nanocrystalline Materials.