Defects and Diffusion in Metals, 2003

This tenth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective IX (Volume 265) and the end of May 2008 (journal availability permitting). As well as the 452 metals abstracts, the issue includes - in line with the new editorial policy of including original papers on all of the major material groups: &quote;Defect Investigation of Plastically Deformed Al 5454 Wrought Alloy Using PADBS and Electrical Measurements&quote; (Abdel-Rahman, Kamel, Lotfy, Badawi and Abdel-Rahman), &quote;Activation Enthalpy of Dislocation Migration in Aircraft (Aerospace) (2024) Alloy by Positron Spectroscopy&quote; (Abdel-Rahman, Abdallah, Hassan and Badawi), &quote;Effect of Irradiation Dose on AlCu6.5 Alloy using Positron Annihilation Doppler Broadening Technique&quote; (Abdel-Rahman, Lotfy, Abdel-Rahman and Badawi), &quote;Dependence of Mono-Vacancy Formation Energy on the Parameter of Ashcroft's Potential&quote; (Ghorai), &quote;X-Ray Characterization of Ag Impurities in Na1-xAgxCl&quote; (Hazeen, Syed Ali, Prema Rani and Saravanan), &quote;Self-Organization Behavior of Sub-Micron CdO Grains Grown during Vapour-Solid Transition&quote; (Zhang, Wang and Li), &quote;Studies of the Local Structure and the Spin Hamiltonian Parameters for Co2+ in CaTiO3&quote; (Lu, Wu, Zhang and Wei).&quote;The Effect of Defect Disorder on the Electronic Structure of Rutile TiO2-x&quote; (Hossain, Murch, Sheppard and Nowotny), &quote;Grain-Boundary-Defects-Induced Switching in Zn-Bi-Mo Ceramic&quote; (El-Hofy), &quote;Synthesis and Characterization of ZrW2O7(OH1-x,Clx)2H2O (x = 0.016, 0.025)&quote; (Cao, Deng, Ma, Wang and Zhao), &quote;Modelling of the Gettering by Mechanical Damage of Metallic Impurities in Silicon&quote; (Ayad and Remram), &quote;Deep Trap Concentrations from Three-Dimensional Carrier Concentration Profiles in Hydride Vapor Pressure Epitaxially-Grown GaN&quote; (Halder, Martin and Sisler), &quote;Slow Positron Studies of Defects in Si-Doped GaAs&quote; (Godbole, Badera, Shrivastava and Joshi), &quote;Six-Jump-Cycle Mechanism for Collective Correlations in Nonstoichiometric Intermetallic Compounds&quote; (Gosain, Chaturvedi, Belova and Murch), &quote;Vacancy-Wind Factors and Collective Correlation Factors in Nonstoichiometric B2 Intermetallic Compounds&quote; (Gosain, Chaturvedi, Belova and Murch), &quote;Defect Densities using the Positron Annihilation Doppler Broadening Technique in Wrought Alloys 3003 and 3005&quote; (Abdel-Rahman, Kamel, Abo-Elsoud, Lotfy and Badawi), &quote;Phenomenological Model for Creep Behaviour in Cu-8.5at%Al Alloy&quote; (Abo-Elsoud), &quote;Surface Microstructural Evolution up to Creep Rupture under the Power-Law Regime in Cu-8.5at%Al Alloy at Intermediate Temperatures&quote; (Abo-Elsoud), &quote;Effect of y-Irradiation on the Mechanical Properties of Al-Cu Alloy&quote; (Abo-Elsoud and Ismail), &quote;On the Physics of the Anomalous Characteristics of Fickian Diffusion of Fe and Other Transition-Element Impurities in Crystalline Al at Elevated Temperatures&quote; (Nechaev), &quote;On the Physics of Enhanced Fickian Diffusion and Structural-Phase Changes in Intensively Deforming Metallic Materials&quote; (Nechaev).