The special edition is devoted to issues related to applying Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy as a nondestructive technique for studying voids and defects in solids. The first chapter contains articles that analyse the features of the latest techniques and instrumentation and present the results of developing some of them. The second chapter is devoted to the practical application of the methods of positron annihilation spectroscopy for studying and analysing defects in alloys, multilayer graphene, photoconductor thin films, complex iron-containing oxide glasses, for the early detection of mental disorders and cancer, etc. Without a doubt, this special edition will be useful for both beginners and professionals with experience in the field of positron annihilation spectroscopy.
Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Positron Studies of Defects Workshop. Techniques and Instrumentation
- Investigation of In-Flight Annihilation of Positrons Using Coincidence Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy
- Fundamental Experiments with Positronium Confined in Micro-Cavities and Emitted into Vacuum with the New Bunched Positron Beam at the Antimatter Lab of Trento
- Feasibility of a ’Brightness Booster’ for the Intense Slow Positron Source NEPOMUC
- Development of Slow Positron Beamline Using 30-MeV L-Band LINAC
- Chapter 2: Positron Studies of Defects Workshop. Applications
- Coincidence Doppler Broadening Spectroscopy of Multilayer Graphene on Copper Surface Using a Variable Energy Positron Beam
- Applications of Electron-Positron Correlation-Polarization Potential Method to Positron Binding in Glycine Conformers
- Positron Studies of Bismuth Donor Centers in Silicon: Effect of Irradiation with 15 MeV Protons
- Variability in FeB Pair Association Rates in Silicon under Ultrasound Loading: Effects of Acoustic Wave Types
- Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy of Hot-Rolled and Subsequently T4-Treated AlCuMgAg
- The S-Phase Formation in a High-Purity Al-Cu-Mg Alloy Monitored by Truncation during Heating-Up
- Amorphous PbO Photoconductive Film Structure Revealed by Variable-Energy, Doppler-Broadened Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy
- Phase Transition and Structural Defects in Complex Iron-Containing Oxide Glasses Probed by Positron Annihilation
- Advances in Medical Imaging: Will Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy Be the Promise of Preventive Diagnostics
- Melting Front of Ice: What Do the Positrons can Say about it?
- Ab Initio Calculations of Positron Lifetimes in Diamond: The Bulk, Vacancies and Grain Boundary
- The Positron User Facility at the PULSTAR Nuclear Reactor Applications in Materials Studies and Recent Upgrades