January 1998
Technical Articles/Special Features: Electron-Crystals and Phonon-Glasses:
A New Path to Improved Thermoelectric Materials; Computational
Alchemy: The Search for New Superhard Materials; Lateral Manipulation
of Single Adsorbates and Substrate Atoms With the Scanning Tunneling
Microscope; Nanoscale Scanning Force Imaging of Polarization
Phenomena in Ferroelectric Thin Films |
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February 1998
Theme: Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Guest Editor: Alex Zunger (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) |
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March 1998
Theme: Materials for Sports
Guest Editor: F.H. Froes (University of Idaho) |
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April 1998
Theme: Silicon-Based Optoelectronics
Guest Editor: Salvatore Coffa (CNR-IMETEM) |
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May 1998
Technical Articles/Special Features: From Surface Materials
to Surface Technologies (1997 MRS Von Hippel Address); Solidification
Science and Engineering Practice (1997 MRS Fall Meeting Turnbull
Lecture); InGaN/GaN/AlGaN-Based Laser Diodes with an Estimated
Lifetime of Longer Than 10,000 Hours (1997 MRS Fall Meeting MRS
Medalist Address) |
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June 1998
Theme: Fundamentals of Friction
Guest Editor: Jacqueline Krim (Northeastern University) |
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July 1998
Theme: Emergence of Chalcopyrites as Nonlinear Optical Materials
Guest Editors: Ravi Pandey (Michigan Tech University) and Melvin
C. Ohmer (AFOSR-Wright Laboratory) |
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August 1998
Theme: Materials Science of Field Responsive Smart Fluids
Guest Editor: Pradeep P. Phulé (University of Pittsburgh)
and John Ginder (Ford Motor Company) |
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September 1998
Theme: Diamond Films: Recent Developments
Guest Editors: Dieter M. Gruen (Argonne National Laboratory)
and Ian Buckley-Golder (Harwell Laboratory) |
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October 1998
Theme: Colloidal Materials
Guest Editor: David G. Grier (University of Chicago) |
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November 1998
Theme: New Functionality of Glass
Guest Editors: Susan Houde-Walter (University of Rochester) and
Peter Green (University Of Texas at Austin) |
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December 1998
Theme: Silicon-on-Insulator Developments
Guest Editors: Robert Bower (UC-Davis) and Jean-Pierre Colinge
(University Catholique de Louvain) |
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