edited by Albert Furrer (ETH Zürich & Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)

Understanding and manipulating the properties of materials naturally occurring in our world and artificially produced by modern technologies requires detailed information on their properties on the atomic scale. This information is the basis for any kind of research in physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, metallurgy, and ceramics. Among the various experimental methods, neutron and photon scattering have become the key techniques of choice.

This book provides an overview of the complementarity between neutron and synchrotron x-ray scattering. The most important topics are covered, including structure determination, magnetic correlations, polymer dynamics, thin films and multilayers, photoemission studies, etc; they are thoroughly introduced and discussed by experts from both the experimental and the theoretical side.

• Neutron- and Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering (The Theoretical Principles) (W E Fischer)
• Structure Determination by Powder Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction (A N Fitch)
• Magnetic Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering (W G Stirling)
• Magnetic Excitations Through the Eye of the Neutron (W J L Buyers)
• Topological Excitations in Low-Dimensional Magnets (H B Braun)
• Elastic and Inelastic X-Ray Scattering from Correlated Electrons: A Theoretical Perspective (M Altarelli)
• From Thin Films to Superlattices Studied with X-Rays and Neutrons (D F McMorrow)
• Small-Angle and Surface Scattering from Porous and Fractal Materials (S K Sinha)
• Hot Topics in Condensed Matter Physics (H R Ott)
• Neutron Beam Optics (P Böni)
• Synchrotron X-Ray Beam Optics (A Freund)
• Summary Lecture: Some Features of the Scattering and Absorption of Beams of Neutrons and Beams of X-Rays (S W Lovesey)
• and other papers