Smart Materials : Proceedings of the 1st Caesarium, Bonn, November 17-19, 1999

Contains lectures presented during the meeting "1st caesarium" held on the topic "Smart Materials" in Bonn. Results in theory and engineering of smart materials were discussed. Special emphasis was put on thin film technology and its role in sensor and actuator applications.

1 Hetero-Micromachining of Epitaxial III/V Compound Semiconductors.- 2 A Fully Coupled Model of a Nonlinear Thin Plate Excited by Piezoelectric Actuators.- 3 Influence of the Microstructure on the Magnetic Properties of Giant-Magnetostrictive TbDyFe Films.- 4 Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Electrorheological Devices.- 5 A Simple Model for Shape Memory Alloys Under Multi-axial Non-Proportional Loading.- 6 Micro- and Nanostructures Preparation and Applications.- 7 Analysis and Simulation of Two-dimensional Dopant Diffusion in Silicon.- 8 Modelling and Simulation of Phase Transition in Shape Memory Metals.- 9 Magnetic Properties of Rare Earth-Fe Amorphous Films Under Applied Stress.- 10 Transient Numerical Simulation of Sublimation Growth of SiC Single Crystals.- 11 Asymptotic Analysis of Interface Problems in Piezoelectric Composite Materials.- 12 Linkage of Inanimate Structures to Biological Systems - Smart Materials in Biological Micro- and Nanosystems.- 13 Thin Film SMA/Si Composite Actuators.