Surface segregation and related phenomena in alloys with long-range order (LRO) or short-
range order (SRO) are reviewed with emphasis on prominent deviations from the well …

When systems that can undergo phase separation between two coexisting phases in the
bulk are confined in thin film geometry between parallel walls, the phase behavior can be …

Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

A microscopic magnetic antiphase domain structure has been observed in a single-crystal
Gd-Y superlattice by neutron diffraction. Furthermore, this long-range antiferromagnetic …

This book deals with the application of grazing angle x-ray and neutron scattering to the
study of surface-induced critical phenomena. With the advent of even more advanced …

Epitaxial Gd (0001) has been investigated with spin-polarized low-energy-electron
diffraction and the magneto-optic Kerr effect. The ferromagnetic critical temperature of the …

Electronic materials and devices corrode in the same ways as automobiles, bridges, and
pipelines, but their typically small dimensions make them orders of magnitude more …

Advances in molecular beam epitaxy deposition techniques have recently made it possible
to grow, an atomic plane at a time, single crystalline superlattices composed of alternating …

We present a brief review of Monte Carlo simulations of ferromagnetic Ising lattices in a film
geometry with surface magnetic fields. The seminal work of Nakanishi and Fisher [Phys …

Critical, tricritical, and first-order wetting transitions are studied in a simple-cubic nearest-
neighbor Ising model, with exchange J in the bulk and exchange J s in the surface planes …