Defects and Diffusion Ceramics Abstracts

This eighth volume in the series covering the latest results in the field includes abstracts of papers which appeared between the publication of Annual Retrospective VII (Volumes 242-244) and the end of June 2006 (journal availability permitting).As well as the 473 ceramics abstracts, the issue includes - in line with the new editorial policy of including original papers on all of the major material groups - the works: &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).