Download or read book Positron Annihilation ICPA-11 written by Y. C. Jean and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one and a half decades, the application of positron annihilation to condensed-matter physics concentrated on the study of the Fermi surfaces of metals and alloys. As other, often more powerful, techniques for performing this type of study were developed, it appeared that condensed-matter positron physics was going to be relegated to being a niche interest. However, the situation changed dramatically when it was found that measurements of positron annihilation in metals were sensitive to the structures of well-known defects. This discovery, and subsequent research made it a major tool in materials science.