Advances in Materials Characterization II [Paperback]

This book represents the proceedings of the second inter? disciplinary conference on materials characterization held from July 30 through August 3, 1984 at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. The conference was the 20th in the University Series on Ceramic Science, instituted in 1964 by Alfred University, the University of California at Berkeley, North Carolina State University and Notre Dame University. Volume I of the proceedings of the first conference using this interdisciplinary approach to materials characterization was published as Advances in Materials Characterization , edited by D. R. Rossington, R. A. Condrate and R. L. Snyder, and was listed as volume 15 of the Materials Science Research series of Plenum Press (New York, 1983). The purpose of bringing together scientists from a wide range of disciplines to present and discuss the latest developments in their fields is to promote cross fertilization. The first conference of this type and its resulting volume of proceedings stimulated a significant dialogue between disciplines concerning the characterization of materials, therefore indicating a need for a continuing series of such conferences. Characterization lies at the core of materials science.Structural and Elemental Characterization.- NMR Characterization of Glasses.- Application of Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry for the Analysis of Ceramics and Glasses.- Raman Spectra and Structure of Fluorine- and Water-bearing Silicate Glasses and Melts.- Simultaneous Crystallite Size, Strain and Structure Analysis from X-ray powder Diffraction Pattern.- The Infrared and Raman Spectra of Phosphorosilicate Phases With 1:1 SiO2/P2O5 Molar Ratios.- Measurement of Nonstoichiometry in BaTiO3 Using Raman Spectroscopy.- Reststrahlen Effects in DRIFT Experiments for NaCl in the Far-Infrared Region.- Phase Characterization.- Newer Techniques in Optical Microscopy.- Laser Raman Microprobe Study of the Identification and Thermal Transformatilƒ´