Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

We report on the physical characterization of a dioctyl‐substituted polyfluorene, both in
solution and in the solid state. We focus on studies of chain geometry both by molecular …

Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional fluids with a truncated Lennard-Jones
interaction in the NVT ensemble are analysed with a block density distribution technique, for …

This book provides an overview of various concepts in cluster physics and related topics in
physics, including the fundamentals and tools underlying novel cluster ion beam technology …

We have studied the ion bombardment induced amorphous-to-crystal transition in silicon
using molecular dynamics techniques. The growth of small crystal seeds embedded in the …

Optimal use of materials in constructing structures is one of the main goals of any design.
Construction of structural systems is costly for their builders, so structures and buildings that …

Using the PVM programming environment for parallel applications, we have parallelized a
simulation of the two-dimensional Ising Model on a cluster of IBM RISC System/6000 …

Development of new materials is an important activity in the continued progress of science
and technology. Metallic amorphous alloys [1, 2, 3] are one such category of materials which …

A new and efficient algorithm is presented for the calculation of the partition function in the
S=±1 Ising model. As an example, we use the algorithm to obtain the thermal-dependence …

The work presented in this thesis consists of using computational methods to understand the
nature of vitreous silica at high pressure, predict the possible atomistic processes that lead …