Relaxation Phenomena: Liquid Crystals, Magnetic Systems, Polymers, High-Tc Superconductors, Metallic Glasses [Paperback]

Relaxation Phenomena in Physics and Chemistry.- I Experimental Methods for Investigating Relaxation Phenomena in Condensed Matter.- 1 Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy.- 2 Dynamic Susceptibility of Magnetic Systems.- 3 Relaxation Phenomena in High-Tc Superconductors: Experimental Methods and Results.- II Relaxation Phenomena in Liquid Crystals.- 4 Non-chiral Calamitic Liquid Crystals.- 5 Ferro- and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals.- 6 Calamitic and Discotic Metallomesogens.- III Special Aspects of Relaxation Phenomena in Magnetic Systems.- 7 Magnetic Properties and ESR Behavior of Some Molecular Compounds Containing Copper(II) Trimers with the Quartet Spin Ground State.- 8 Magnetic Properties and Relaxations Processes in Manganese (III)-Porphyrins-TCNE-Systems.- 9 Dipolar Interaction and Three-Dimensional Magnetic Ordering of some Chain and Layered Compounds.- 10 Electron Delocalization in Dimeric Mixed-Valence Systems.- IV Relaxation Phenomena in High-Tc Superconducting Systems, Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Metallic Glasses.- 11 High-Tc Superconductors.- 12 Relaxation Phenomena in Nonlinear Optical Polymers.- XXIII 13 Relaxation Processes in Two- and Three-Component Metallic Glasses.

 The authors describe the electric, magnetic and other relaxational processes in a wide spectrum of materials: liquid crystals, molecular magnets, polymers, high-Tc superconductors and glasses. The book summarizes the phenomenological fundamentals and the experimental methods used. A detailed description of molecular and collective dynamics in the broad range of liquid crystals is presented. Magnetic systems, high-Tc superconductors, polymers and glasses are an important subject of matter. It is shown that the researchers working on relaxation processes in different fields of materials sciences are dealing with the same physical fundamentals, but are sometimes using slightly different terms. The book is addressed to scientists, engineers, graduate and undel#S