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Condensed-Matter and Material Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology (Physics in a New Era)
By Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materi, National Research Council,
Publisher: National Academy Press
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: 1999-04
Sales Rank: 1146658
ISBN / ASIN: 0309063493
EAN: 9780309063494
In the spring of 1996, the National Research Council’s Board on Physics and Astronomy established the Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics to prepare a scholarly assessment of the field as part of the new survey of physics, Physics in a New Era, that is now in progress. This assessment has five objectives.
1. Identify future opportunities and priorities in the field.
2. Articulate the fundamental scientific challenges in the field.
3. Assess related infrastructure, institutional, resource, and educational issues.
4. Provide evidence of the societal impact of the field.
5. Provide a forum for coordinated community-wide communications with federal agencies, policy makers, and the public.
The committee was composed of individuals whose backgrounds reflect the diversity of the field and its close connections with related branches of science, including chemistry, biology, and engineering. The field spans research environments from principal investigators carrying out benchtop studies in universities to large collaborations carrying out experiments at major national facilities. It also spans the forefronts of many-body theory, the behavior of complex materials and fluids, and the design of semiconductor devices and circuits. Condensed matter and materials physics research is carried out in various institutional settings, including university, government, and industrial research laboratories. In the course of the study, the committee held two workshops on research frontiers and policy issues. These workshops brought together leadingresearch ers in the field as well as leading policy makers fromgovernment, industry, and
universities. The committee met several times to plan its work, debate the issues, and formulate its report. An early output of the study was the report The Physics of Materials: How Science Improves Our Lives, a short, colorful, and easy-toread pamphlet illustrating how research in the field affects our daily lives. The committee generated several progress reports and held public forums at materials-related meetings of the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society. The committee also sought input from the general science and engineering communities. We are particularly grateful to our colleagues in biology, chemistry, and materials and electrical engineering for their support and help in carrying out this study.
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