Frontiers of Materials Research

Novel Materials for Electronics.- Science, for the Benefit of Mankind.- Trends of Condensed Matter Science: A Personal View.- Measurements and Mechanisms of Single-Molecule Conductance Switching.- Exploration of Oxide Semiconductor Electronics Through Parallel Synthesis of Epitaxial Thin Films.- Epitaxial Growth and Transport Properties of High-Mobility ZnO-Based Heterostructures.- A Scaling Behavior of Anomalous Hall Effect in Cobalt Doped TiO2.- Synthesis, Phase Diagram, and Evolution of Electronic Properties in LixZrNCl Superconductors.- Ambipolar Tetraphenylpyrene (TPPy) Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistor with Symmetric and Asymmetric Electrodes.- Bulk Zinc Oxide and Gallium Nitride Crystals by Solvothermal Techniques.- Materials for Ecological and Biological Systems.- High-Quality Si Multicrystals with Same Grain Orientation and Large Grain Size by the Newly Developed Dendritic Casting Method for High-Efficiency Solar Cell Applications.- Growth of High-Quality Polycrystalline Si Ingot with Same Grain Orientation by Using Dendritic Casting Method.- Floating Cast Method as a New Growth Method of Silicon Bulk Multicrystals for Solar Cells.- Dehydriding Reaction of Hydrides Enhanced by Microwave Irradiation.- Mechanically Multifunctional Properties and Microstructure of New Beta-Type Titanium Alloy, Ti-29Nb-13Ta-4.6Zr, for Biomedical Applications.- Precise Control of Microscopic and Complex Systems.- Atom Probe Tomography at The University of Sydney.- A Study on Age Hardening in Cu-Ag Alloys by Transmission Electron Microscopy.- Rubber-Like Entropy Elasticity of a Glassy Alloy [1].- Formation and Mechanical Properties of Bulk Glassy and Quasicrystalline Alloys in Zr-Al-Cu-Ti System.- Fabrication and Characterization of Metallic Glassy Matrix Composite Reinforced with ZrO2 Particulate by Spark Plasma Sintering Process.- Nucleation and Growth of Thin Pentacene Films Studied by LEEM and STM.- Mechanism of Chiral Growth of 6, 13-Pentacenequinone Films on Si (111).- GaN Integration on Si via Symmetry-Converted Silicon-on-Insulator.- Functional Probes for Scanning Probe Microscopy.