advances in materials research 11 advances in materials research Series Editor-in-Chief: Y. Kawazoe Series Editors: M. Hasegawa A. Inoue N. Kobayashi T. Sakurai L. Wille The series Advances in Materials Research reports in a systematic and comprehensive way on the latest progress in basic materials sciences. It contains both theoretically and experimentally oriented texts written by leading experts in the f ield. Advances in Materials Research is a continuation of the series Research Institute of Tohoku University (RITU). 1 Mesoscopic Dynamics of Fracture Computational Materials Design Editors: H. Kitagawa, T. Aihara, Jr., and Y. Kawazoe 7 Advanced Materials Characterization for Corrosion Products Formed on the Steel Surface Editors: Y. Waseda and S. Suzuki 2 Advances in Scanning Probe Microscopy Editors: T. Sakurai and Y. Watanabe 8 Shaped Crystals Growth by Micro-Pulling-Down Technique Editors: T. Fukuda and V.I. Chani 3 Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Materials Preparation, Properties, and Applications Editors: A. Inoue and K. Hashimoto 9 Nano- and Micromaterials Editors: K. Ohno, M. Tanaka, J. Takeda, and Y. Kawazoe 4 Materials Science in Static High Magnetic Fields Editors: K. Watanabe and M. Motokawa 5 Structure and Properties of Aperiodic Materials Editors: Y. Kawazoe and Y. Waseda 6 Fiber Crystal Growth from the Melt Editors: T. Fukuda, P. Rudolph, and S. Uda 10 Frontiers in Materials Research Editors: Y. Fujikawa, K. Nakajima, and T. Sakurai 11 High-Temperature Measurements of Materials Editors: H. Fukuyama, Y. Waseda 12 Oxide and Nitride Semiconductors Processing, Properties and Applications Editors: T. Yao, S.-K. Hong Hiroyuki Fukuyama Yoshio Waseda (Eds.) High-Temperature Measurements of Materials With 125 Figures ABC Professor Hiroyuki Fukuyama Professor Dr. Yoshio Waseda Tohoku University, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan E-mail:
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