Publisher's Synopsis
This volume presents collective studies comparing diffusion in the inorganic, metallic and polymeric amorphous materials. Independent and highly sophisticated current research is documented which, because of the close similarities in diffusion formalism and the concepts of amorphous structure, can be applied to all three types of amorphous materials.;Coverage includes: diffusion in amorphous solids - some general features; role of structure in ionic diffusion in inorganic glasses; self-diffusion processes in amorphous metallic alloys; metal atom diffusion in amorphous polyimides; and amorphous thin films for diffusion barriers in microelectronic devices.;The book is drawn from an international symposium on Diffusion in Amorphous Materials held at Materials Week '93 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 17-21, 1993.
