Raman scattering is now being applied with increasing success to a wide range of practical problems at the cutting edge of materials science. The purpose of this book is to make Raman spectroscopy understandable to the non-specialist and thus to bring it into the mainstream of routine materials characterization. The book is pedagogical in approach and focuses on technologically important condensed-matter systems in which the specific use of Raman spectroscopy yields new and useful information. Included are chapters on instrumentation, bulk semiconductors and alloys, heterostructures, high-Tc...

Written over an extraordinary twenty-two years, Ariel & Electra draws on R.Merlin's experience as a laser artist, working Druid, and occult initiate, as well as his passion for the Eleusinian Mysteries.

And, while he wryly suggests it be listed under -sex, drugs, rock/n/roll, lightshows and magic in space, - (and, truth be told, all those things are in there), the novel is really about the evolution of consciousness.

Set in a hopeful near/future time, Ariel & Electra covers the adventures of a ship-full of visionary artists and, ultimately, the...