Overview
- Brings together experts in glasses, geometrical frustration, and functional materials
- Covers theory, experiment, and simulations of ferroics
- Features an easy-to-read introduction in each chapter to make specialized topics accessible to a broad readership in condensed matter physics and materials science
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 275)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to ferroics and frustrated materials. Ferroics comprise a range of materials classes with functionalities such as magnetism, polarization, and orbital degrees of freedom and strain. Frustration, due to geometrical constraints, and disorder, due to chemical and/or structural inhomogeneities, can lead to glassy behavior, which has either been directly observed or inferred in a range of materials classes from model systems such as artificial spin ice, shape memory alloys, and ferroelectrics to electronically functional materials such as manganites. Interesting and unusual properties are found to be associated with these glasses and have potential for novel applications. Just as in prototypical spin glass and structural glasses, the elements of frustration and disorder lead to non-ergodocity, history dependence, frequency dependent relaxation behavior, and the presence of inhomogeneous nano clusters or domains. In addition, there are new states of matter, such as spin ice; however, it is still an open question as to whether these systems belong to the same family or universality class.
The purpose of this work is to collect in a single volume the range of materials systems with differing functionalities that show many of the common characteristics of geometrical frustration, where interacting degrees of freedom do not fit in a lattice or medium, and glassy behavior is accompanied by additional presence of disorder. The chapters are written by experts in their fields and span experiment and theory, as well as simulations. Frustrated Materials and Ferroic Glasses will be of interest to a wide range of readers in condensed matter physics and materials science.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Frustrated Materials and Ferroic Glasses
Editors: Turab Lookman, Xiaobing Ren
Series Title: Springer Series in Materials Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-96913-8Published: 12 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07270-4Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-96914-5Published: 01 November 2018
Series ISSN: 0933-033X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-2812
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 276
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 133 illustrations in colour
Topics: Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanochemistry, Optical and Electronic Materials, Solid State Physics