The synthesis of multicomponent/multilayered superconducting, conducting, semiconducting and insulating thin films has become the subject of an intensive, world

Recent developments in microelectronics technologies have created a great demand for interlayer dielectric materials with a very low dielectric constant. They w

A two-volume reference set for all ceramicists, both in research and working in industry The only definitive reference covering the entire field of advanced cer

The impetus for the rapid development of thin film technology, relative to that of bulk materials, is its application to a variety of microelectronic products.

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