Charge Density Waves in Solids: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Budapest, Hungary, September 3–7, 1984: Lecture Notes in Physics, cartea 217

Summary.- Neutron and x-ray scattering study on K0.3MoO3 and other quasi one dimensional conductors.- X-ray study of charge-density wave in K0.30Mo03 under electric fields.- Transmission electron microscopy for imaging and diffraction studies of low dimensional transition metal chalcogenides.- Aspects of charge-density waves in the TaTe4-NbTe4 structures and in 2H-TaSe2.- Charge density waves, phasing, sliding and related phenomena in NbSe3 and other transition metal chalcogenides.- Structural and electrical properties interpretation through band structure calculations on the (MSe4)nI SERIES (M = Nb, Ta)..- Defects and charge density waves in irradiated layer and chain compounds.- Electron diffraction charge density wave studies in the chalcogenide compounds (MX4)nI.- Neutron studies of the blue bronzes K0.3MoO3 and Rb0.3MoO3.- The effect of a magnetic field on the discotm1ensurate to commensurate transition in 2H TaSe2.- High pressure investigation of the cdw phase diagram of 1T-TaS2.- Landau theory of 2H-TaSe2.- Multidomain structures of incommensurate phases in CDW states of 2H-TaSe2.- Electron microscopy of charge density wave defects in 1T-TaS2 and 1T-TaSe2.- Aspects of strong electron-phonon coupling related to the CDW transition at temperatures above it.- Elastic and other properties at the commensurate-incommensurate transition in 2H-TaSe2.- CDW phase mode investigation in the FIR in K0.3MaO3 and band structure calculation.- 93Nb NMR study of CDW in (NbSe4)10/3I single crystal.- Electronic Properties and Fe57 Mössbauer measurements of T1+xNb3-xSe10 with T = Fe, Cr.- Transport and Mössbauer studies of the peierls transition in Fe-doped K0.30MoO3.- Charge density wave instabilities in quasi two-dimensional oxides n-Mo4O11 and ?-Mo4O11.- Thermal conductivity oflayered dichalcogenides.- Tunneling study of commensurate charge density wave states in 1T-TaS2.- Galvanomagnetic properties of the quasi-two dimensional purple bronze K0.9Mo6O17.- Non-local elastic forces in charge-density wave systems.- Soliton model of charge-density-wave depinning.- Dynamics of incommensurate structures.- Some problems arising from electrostatic potential in CDW behavior.- The single domain model of charge-density wave transport.- On the microscopic theory of kinetic phenomena in peierls conductors.- Near commensurability effects on charge density wave dynamics.- Shift in the longitudinal sound velocity due to sliding charge density waves.- Microscopic local mechanisms for “Noises” generated by moving CDW.- Phase vortices and CDW conduction noise.- Damping of CDW-condensate motion by interaction with thermal phasons.- Microscopic theory of interaction of CDW with impurities.- Quantum effects in the Josephson approach to a CDW.- Fokker planck theory of the classical charge density wave model with current noise.- Travelling charge density waves : A mean field treatment.- Coherent and incoherent effects in charge density wave transport.- Threshold field, electrical conductivity and time-dependent voltage in transition metal tri- and tetrachalcogenides.- Solitons in TaS3 experiment.- Thermal gradient experiments on the charge-density-wave conduction noise spectrum.- Broadband noise in orthorhombic TaS3.- High field I–V characteristics of orthorhombic TaS3.- Inertial dynamics of CDW transport in NbSe3.- Frequency dependent conductivity of CDW compounds.- AC conductivity of the blue bronze K0.3 MoO3.- Subharmonic shapiro steps, devil's staircase, and synchronization in RF-driven CDW conductors.- Mode locking and chaos in sliding charge-density-wavesystems.- Chaos in charge density wave systems.- Contribution of CDW motion to the hall effect and to the transverse conductivity in TaS3. experiment.- Contribution of CDW motion to the hall effect and to the transverse conductivity. Theory.- Dependence of the elastic modulus of TaS3 on the CDW current.- Low frequency elastic properties of materials containing a sliding CDW.- The conductivity of orthorhombic TaS3 under uniaxial strain.- Ohmic and nonlinear transport of (TaSe4)2I under pressure.- Pinning, metastability and sliding of charge-density-waves.- Distortion, metastability and breaking in charge-density wave transport: Recent experiments on niobium triselenide, suggesting a new mean-field approach.- Bistable configurations of the pinned charge density wave: Random-field-model dynamics observed in rearrangement prior to depinning.- Electric field induced relaxation of metastable states in TaS3.- Remanent deformation of CDWs.- Relaxation of the deformed cdw state: electric and thermal hysteresis.- Thermal hysteresis in the thermopower of o-TaS3.- Delayed switching between normal and CDW conducting states in o-TaS3.- The effect of uniaxial strain on metastable states in TaS3.- Influence of defects on the metastable states of o-TaS3.- Charge density wave transport in the blue bronzes K0.30MoO3 and Rb0.30MoO3 : metastability, hysteresis and memory effects.- Effects of irradiation on the blue bronzes K0.30MoO3 and Rb0.30MoO3.- Relaxation of metastable states in blue bronze K0.3MoO3.- Incommensurate ferroelectrics.- Commensurate and incommensurate phases of a two-dimensional lattice of superconducting vortices.- (TMTSF)2X compounds: Superconductivity, spin-density waves and anion ordering.- Impurity pinning in quasi-1D superconductivity.- Numerical studies of the effect of a wall on SDW in a jellium.- Pinning of amplitude solitons in Peierls systems with impurities.- New resistive state in low dimensional superconductor TaSe3.- Switching in cdw systems and in V02 — A comparative study.- The effect of varying the bandfilling in a Peierls conductor.- Solitons and polarons in a spin density wave chain.- Charge density waves in superionic conductors.- Numerical study of impurity pinning in one-dimensional interacting electron systems.- Multivalued charge-density waves.