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This book covers the thermodynamic foundations of inorganic materials science and the controlled synthesis of inorganic materials. A new thermodynamic approach to the non-stoichiometry of crystalline solids, known as vapor pressure scanning, has been developed by the author and is described in detail in this book. It is based on the high-precision experimental determination of the boundaries of the single-phase volume of the solid in the pressure-temperature-composition P-T-X phase space. This approach has been tested on a number of inorganic materials and has been shown to have an unparalleled precision (up to 10-4 at. per cent) in the determination of non-stoichiometry directly at high temperatures (up to 1200? C). Along with the results obtained by the author and his colleagues, the P-T-X diagrams of other important materials (e.g. , III-V, IV-VI semiconductors) are also discussed.

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We recommend this book to any physicist concerned with phase diagrams and to any materials scientist concerned with semiconducting compounds. --Physicalia

We recommend this book to any physicist concerned with phase diagrams and to any materials scientist concerned with semiconducting compounds. <p>--Physicalia

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