This text reviews the major advances made in recent years in both the theoretical and experimental areas of rapid solidification technology and processing. Topics covered include: processing technologies of rapid solidification and thermodynamic properties; thermodynamics of metastable alloys, relaxation, diffusion, magnetic and electric properties; the structural characterization of supercooled melts, and ultrafine polycrystalline materials.

Elements of Rapid Solidification: Fundamentals and Applications is the product of many years of concentrated work in the field of rapid solidification and processing. This quasi-monograph is unique in two ways. It brings together the talent of many international scientists in an effort to focus attention on all aspects of a new scientific field and it concentrates on fundamentals and practical applications. Simply stated, this book has been written by the senior students in the field of rapid solidification technology for the new generation of solid-state physicists, materials...