TY - BOOK AU - Tyagi ,A.K. AU - Roy ,Mainak AU - Kulshreshtha ,S.K. AU - Banerjee ,S. TI - Advanced Techniques for Materials Characterization / AV - TA410 A38 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Zurich : PB - Trans Tech Publications , KW - Materials KW - Testing KW - LCSH N1 - Includes Index; Includes Bibliographical References N2 - Nowadays, an impressively large number of powerful characterization techniques is being used by physicists, chemists, biologists and engineers in order to solve analytical research problems; especially those related to the investigation of the properties of new materials for advanced applications. Although there are a few available books which deal with such experimental techniques, they are either too exhaustive and cover very few techniques or are too elementary to provide a solid basis for learning to use the characterization technique. Moreover, such books usually over-emphasize the textbook approach: being full of theoretical concepts and mathematical derivations, and omitting the practical instruction required in order to permit newcomers to use the techniques ER -