Wood R.F. (Ed). Defects in Insulating Crystals (1977)

Proceedings. — International Conference "Defects in In Insulating Crystals" (9—14 October 1977). Gatlinburg, Tennessee, USA: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1977. — 496 p.+ 24 p.This conference may be considered to be а member of the series of international symposia on the physics of color centers in ionic crystals which began in 1956. The 1977 conference, while maintaining the continuity and tradition of the series, departs substantially from the scope and emphasis of past color center conferences. Meetings in this series have been held at three year intervals to report and discuss results of studies of defects in ionic crystals. Traditionally, these studies have been heavily weighted toward the alkali halides as host crystals. However, over the years а slow but steady growth in the number of papers on defects in other insulating materials has occurred. An effort has been made by the Organizing Committee of the 1977 conference to encourage this growth and to emphasize research оп materials of interest in newly evolving energy technologies. Although the committee judges this effort to have been only partially successful, the data for the conference abstracts show that the papers оп alkali halides and those on all other materials are rюw roughly comparable in number. In order to stimulate discussion оп а wider variety of materials and phenomena, the committee decided to introduce poster sessions. For the conference, 268 abstracts were received from scientists in 23 countries. Of these, approximately 80 percent were selected for oral or poster presentation. Assignment of papers to the two types of sessions in no way implied а judgement of the merit of the work reported. Without poster sessions only about 20 percent of the contributed papers could have been presented.Invited Papers.
Radiation Effects in MgO (Y.Chen).
The Jahn-Teller Effect in Ionic Crystals: Recent Developments (J.Duran).
AgI-type Solid Electrolytes (К.Funke).
The Excited States of F-centres in Oxides (В.Henderson).
Electron-Phonon Interaction in Alkali and Silver Halides (Н.Kanzaki).
Segregation Phenomena in Magnesium Oxide (W.D.Kingery).
Broadly Tunable Lasers Using Color Centers in the Alkali Halides (L.F.Mollenauer).
The role of Fundamental Research In Device Development (N.А.Siblеу).
Ion Transport in Simple Ionic Crystals (L.Slifkin).
Dislocations and Mechanical Properties of Ionic Crystals (R.W.Whitworth).
Photochemistry of F-center Formation in Simple Halide Crystals (R.Т.Williams).Conference topics.
Transport.
Defect Levels.
Applications.
Superionic Conductors.
Jahn-Teller Effect.
Radiation Effects.
Aggregation.
Relaxed Excited States.
Excitons.
Electron-Lattice Interactions.
Impurities.
Mechanical Properties.