Handbook of Solid State Diffusion: Volume 1: Diffusion Fundamentals and Techniques

Handbook of Solid State Diffusion, Volume 1: Diffusion Fundamentals and Techniques covers the basic fundamentals, techniques, applications, and latest developments in the area of solid-state diffusion, offering a pedagogical understanding for students, academicians, and development engineers. Both experimental techniques and computational methods find equal importance in the first of this two-volume set.

Volume 1 covers the fundamentals and techniques of solid-state diffusion, beginning with a comprehensive discussion of defects, then different analyzing methods, and finally concluding with an exploration of the different types of modeling techniques.

Presents a handbook with a short mathematical background and detailed examples of concrete applications of the sophisticated methods of analysisEnables readers to learn the basic concepts of experimental approaches and the computational methods involved in solid-state diffusionCovers bulk, thin film, and nanomaterialsIntroduces the problems and analysis in important materials systems in various applicationsCollates contributions from academic and industrial problems from leading scientists involved in developing key concepts across the globe

1. Types of Defects, Driving Forces, and Diffusion in Solids 2. Tracer Diffusion and Understanding the Atomic Mechanisms of Diffusion 3. Diffusion Couple Techniques in Binary and Pseudo-Binary Systems 4. Diffusion in Multicomponent Systems 5. Point Defects and Diffusion in Semiconductors 6. CALPHAD-Type Modeling of Diffusion Kinetics in Multicomponent Alloys 7. Phase-field modeling as a method relevant for modeling solid-state phase formation during interdiffusion 8. Thermodynamic treatment of diffusive phase transformations: Reactive diffusion 9. Monte Carlo methods in diffusion 10. Defects and Diffusion mechanisms in ordered phases