A brief survey is given of the thermochemistry of a number of silicon-containing substances that are of interest in modern technology. Among those discussed are: silicalite (SiO2), silicon disulfide (SiS2), the crystalline and vitreous forms of silicon diselenide (SiSen), silicon sesquitelluride (Si2Te3), silicon nitride (Si3N4), and vanadium disilicide (VSi2).

With the development of information technology, quick rate of data transfer and high capacity of data storage are expected for advanced recording media. Although data storage media and technique have been developed from soft discs, hard disk, CD-ROM and DVDROM to multi-layered blue-ray discs, undoubtedly, holography is one of the most fascinating and attractive techniques. As shown in Figure 1,...

In recent decades, the design and construction of smart materials capable of switching into a polyzwitterionic state by an external trigger have been intensively pursued. Polyzwitterionic states have unique antifouling and surface properties and external triggers, such as pH, light, ions, electric field and CO2, cause significant changes in materials with regard to overall charge, ionic strengt...

Field emission displays (FEDs) show great promise as high performance flat panel displays. The light emission process is efficient, long lifetimes are possible with high brightness, and bright passive matrix displays can be built. Because passive matrix displays don’t need a transistor backplane, it was once thought that these displays would be cheaper to fabricate than their competitors. It is...