| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings |
| Phase Transformations |
| Role of a Free Energy Action Principle in Predicting Microstructure Formation / J.S. Kirkaldy |
| Phase Coarsening as a Relaxation Phenomenon / S.P. Marsh |
| Phase Separation and Elastic Fields: Three-Dimensional Simulations of a Phase Field Model / Daniel Orlikowski ; Celeste Sagui ; Andres Somoza ; Christopher Roland |
| A DICTRA Simulation of [theta]-Phase Dissolution in Al-Cu Alloys / Raymond G. Thompson ; Curt Malam |
| Characterization of the Early Stages on Phase Separation by Atom Probe Tomography / M.K. Miller |
| Interdiffusion Microstructure Map Topology / J.E. Morral ; Huimin Chen ; Frederick Meisenkothen |
| Growth of Lamellar Products During Discontinuous Solid State Reactions / P. Zieba ; W. Gust |
| Formation and Evolution of Three-Dimensional Structures in the Cu/Sn/Si(111) System / Qin Hu ; I.V. Mitchell ; M. Zinke-Allmang |
| Early Stages of Decomposition in Ni-Rich Ni-Ti / M. Kompatscher ; B. Deme ; J. Hecht ; H. Heinrich ; J. Kohlbrecher ; J-M. Schneider ; B. Schonfeld ; G. Kostorz |
| Phase Evolution and Transformations During Long-Term Creep of Two-Phase Titanium Aluminides / F. Appel ; M. Oehring ; P.J. Ennis |
| Diffusion Pathway of Interface Reactions in Amorphous-SiC/Ni / Z.F. Dong ; J.H. Perepezko ; A.S. Edelstein |
| Phase Transition and Pattern of Self-Organized Microstructures in Presence of Mobile Impurities / K. Ivanova ; M. Ausloos |
| Evolution of Stress: Phase Formation and Microstructure in TiCu[subscript x]-Alloy Films / S. Bertel ; R. Abermann |
| Eutectoid Decomposition in Three Ti-Co Alloys / E. Coomber ; M.J. Whiting ; P. Tsakiropoulos |
| Solid Solutions (PbI[subscript 2])[subscript x]-(BiI[subscript 3])[subscript 1-x] / Yu.N. Dmitriev ; P.R. Bennett ; L.J. Cirignano ; T.K. Gupta ; M. Klugerman ; K.S. Shah |
| Effect of Fe on Sintering of Al[subscript 2]O[subscript 3]-MgO-Fe[subscript 2]O[subscript 3] Spinel / O.V. Kharissova ; J.A. Aguilar ; U. Ortiz |
| Silicon Crystal Growth on a Ni Silicide Seeding Layer by DC Magnetron Sputtering / E. Guliants ; W.A. Anderson |
| Process and Mechanism of CoSi[subscript 2]/Si Solid Phase Epitaxy by Multilayer Reaction / Bing-Zong Li ; Xin-Ping Qu ; Guo-Ping Ru ; Ning Wang ; Paul Chu |
| Controlled Phase Formation by Using a Diffusion Barrier--The Fe-Si Reaction / C.C. Theron ; A. Falepin ; S. Degroote ; J. Dekoster ; A. Vantomme ; G. Langouche ; H.S. de Waal ; R. Pretorius |
| Estimation of the Critical Radius for the Nucleation of the C54 Phase in C49 TiSi[subscript 2]: Role of the Difference in Density / D.B. Migas ; M. Iannuzzi ; Leo Miglio ; F. La Via ; M.G. Grimaldi |
| Characterization of Epitaxial Growth of Semiconducting Rhenium "Disilicide" Films / A. Misra ; M. Verdier ; J.E. Mahan ; T.E. Mitchell |
| Selective Aluminum CVD on Si(100) from DMAH / C. Bisch ; S. Rogge ; T. Melin ; G.C.A.M. Janssen |
| Influence of the Alloy Composition on the Thermodynamic Parameters of Nucleation and Growth of SiGe / J. Olivares ; A. Rodriguez ; J. Sangrador ; R. Rodriguez ; P. Martin ; J. Jimenez ; C. Ballesteros ; M. Castro |
| Effects of Ge on the Nucleation and Growth of Si[subscript 1-x]-Ge[subscript x] / S. Yamaguchi ; S.K. Park ; N. Sugii ; K. Nakagawa ; M. Miyao |
| Growth of Epitaxial Cu/TiN/6H-SiC(0001) Heterostructures by Pulsed Laser Deposition / A. Kvit ; A.K. Sharma ; J. Narayan |
| In Situ Morphological Study of the Al/SiO[subscript 2] Reaction Around the Eutectic Point / Levy Allam ; Vincent Fleury |
| Effect of Preparation and Impurities on the Size and Shape of the Crystallites and on the Crystal Symmetry of Superionic PbSnF[subscript 4] / George Denes ; M. Cecilia Madamba |
| Nanoscale Sn Inclusions in Al--Structure and Melting-Solidification Properties / E. Johnson ; C.R.H. Bahl ; V.S. Touboltsev ; A. Johansen |
| Grain Growth in Nanocrystalline Nickel / G.D. Hibbard ; U. Erb ; K.T. Aust ; G. Palumbo |
| Effects of Boron Doping on the Grain Growth Behavior of [gamma]/[gamma]' Nickel-Aluminum Alloy / Y.L. Chiu ; A.H.W. Ngan |
| Influence of the Electrochemical Environment on Diffusion Processes Near Step and Island Edges: Ag(111) and Ag(100) / Michael I. Haftel ; T.L. Einstein |
| An Investigation of Temperature-Manipulated Size and Shape Evolution of Preformed Core-Shell Nanoparticles / M.M. Maye ; W.X. Zheng ; F.L. Leibowitz ; N.K. Ly ; H.H. Eichelberger ; C.J. Zhong |
| Interrogation of Alumina Grain Boundaries Using Atomic Force Microscopy / P.A. Tibble ; B.R. Heywood ; R. Richardson ; P. Barnes |
| Crystallization of TiO[subscript 2] in Sol-Gel Derived SiO[subscript 2]-TiO[subscript 2] System: Formation of TiO[subscript 2](B) Nanocrystallites / T. Kogure ; T. Umezawa ; Y. Kotani ; A. Matsuda ; M. Tatsumisago ; T. Minami |
| Liquid-Solid and Martensitic Transformations |
| Initial Crystallization Reactions / D.R. Allen |
| Modeling Solid Nucleation and Growth in Supercooled Liquid / J.P. Leonard ; James S. Im |
| Nucleation Behavior and Solid-Liquid Interfacial Energy of Polytetrahedral Phases / Dirk Holland-Moritz |
| Crystallization of Al-Gd-La-Ni Metallic Glasses / T.K. Croat ; A.K. Gangopadhyay ; K.F. Kelton |
| Kinetic Limitations to Shape Equilibration of Liquid Pb Inclusions in Al / H. Gabrisch ; L. Kjeldgaard ; A. Vaernholt Olesen ; U. Dahmen |
| Coupling the Nano and Micro Scales in Modeling the Formation of Metallic Microstructures / A. Chirazi ; H. Rafii-Tabar |
| Transitory Metastable Phases in Refractory Metals-Based Systems Solidified by Drop-Tube Processing: A First-Principles Approach / C. Berne ; A. Pasturel ; M. Sluiter ; B. Vinet |
| Optimizing the Metalloid Content in Bulk Metallic Glasses / O. Jin ; R.B. Schwarz ; F.M. Alamgir ; H. Jain |
| Atomic Structure of Alloys Close to Phase Transitions / G. Van Tendeloo ; D. Schryvers |
| Premonitory Martensitic Surface Relief Via Novel X-ray Diffuse and Laser Light Reflectivity From the (001)-Surface of a Ni[subscript 63]Al[subscript 37] Single Crystal / U. Klemradt ; M. Aspelmeyer ; H. Abe ; L.T. Wood ; S.C. Moss ; E. Dimasi ; J. Peisl |
| Nucleation and Growth in Martensitic Transformations / R.C. Pond ; T. Nixon |
| A Self-Similar Solution for the Growth Rate of a Compound Layer in Thin-Film Binary Diffusion Couples / Huifang Zhang ; Harris Wong |
| Particle Coarsening in Multiphase Ternary Systems / W.C. Holmes ; J.J. Hoyt |
| Microstructure Evaluation for Time Dependent Nucleation Protocols in KJMA Kinetics / Eloi Pineda ; Daniel Crespo |
| 3-D Simulation of Coarsening of [gamma]' Precipitates in a Ni-Al Alloy / V. Vaithyanathan ; L.Q. Chen |
| Microdynamic Mechanisms of Crystal Growth Under Applied Electric Fields / Y.N. Jiao ; S. Takamori ; Y. Ohsawa ; G. Arakane ; A. Sato |
| Growth Stress of Thin Ti-, Al- and TiAl[subscript x]-Films Deposited Under UHV-Conditions and Its Dependence on Substrate Temperature / St. Lackner |
| Growth, Microstructure and Micro-Raman Studies of RF Magnetron Sputter Deposited SrBi[subscript 2]Ta[subscript 2]O[subscript 9] and SrBi[subscript 2]TaNbO[subscript 9] Films / S. Srinivas ; Menka Jain ; Ram S. Katiyar |
| In Situ Ellipsometry Study of the Diamond Film Evolution Process / L.M. Cancel ; O.L. Figueroa ; B.R. Weiner ; G. Morell |
| The Effects of Nucleation in the Two Step Growth of HVPE GaN / P.R. Tavernier ; E.V. Etzkorn ; Y. Wang ; D.R. Clarke |
| Coarse Grained Free Energy Functional for Lennard-Jones Systems / M.E. Gracheva ; J.M. Rickman ; J.D. Gunton ; D.C. Coffey |
| Morphology Control of Sulfide in Fe-Cr-S Alloys During the Solidification / Katsunari Oikawa ; Tamio Ikeshoji ; Hajime Mitsui ; Kiyohito Ishida |
| On the Effect of Au Addition and the Role of B on Nanocrystallization of Fe-Zr-B Amorphous Alloy / Y. Zhang ; N. Wanderka ; U. Czubayko ; F. Zhu ; H. Wollenberger |
| Short-Range Order and Nanocrystallization in Amorphous Zr-Ti-Cu-Ni-Al / L.Q. Xing ; Xiaofeng Gu ; T.A. Lusby ; A.J. Melmed ; T.C. Hufnagel |
| A Raman Study of a Metastable Crystalline State in Amorphous SiGe Layers Under cw Laser Illumination: Influence of the Temperature / T. Rodriguez |
| Nucleation in Undercooled Co-Pd Alloys / D. Holland-Moritz ; Th. Schenk ; D.M. Herlach |
| Nucleation and Growth |
| Stochastic Modeling of Grain Growth and Coarsening / C.S. Pande ; R.A. Masumura |
| Modeling of Non-Random Nucleation Protocols / Trinitat Pradell |
| Phase Field Approach to Transformations Involving Concurrent Nucleation and Growth / J.P. Simmons ; C. Shen |
| In Situ STM Observation of the Spiral Growth in the Epitaxial Fe Films on MgO(001) / Agus Subagyo ; Kazuhisa Sueoka ; Koichi Mukasa |
| Author Index |
| Subject Index |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
| Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings |
| Phase Transformations |
| Role of a Free Energy Action Principle in Predicting Microstructure Formation / J.S. Kirkaldy |
| Phase Coarsening as a Relaxation Phenomenon / S.P. Marsh |
