Binary rare earth oxides / Бинарные оксиды редкоземельных элементов

A number of functional materials based on rare earth oxides have been developed in various fields. Up to 1990, many review articles describing rare earth oxides have been reported and several intensive articles deal the properties e.g. preparation, structure and transformation and have been published early nineteen nineties. In these ten years, much progress has been made in the characterization of rare earth oxides from high-resolution electron microscopy (HREM), as well as in a unique preparation of ultra-fine particles and in the theoretical calculation.

The purpose to publish this book arose out of the realization that, although excellent surveys and reviews of rare earths are available, some of them have been already several decades passed since their publication and in these years, there is no single source covering the field of rare earth oxides. This book means to provide guidance through a comprehensive review of all these characteristics of rare earth oxides for scientists and engineers from universities, research organizations, and industries. <...>