Title page -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 DENSITY, THERMAL PROPERTIES, AND THE GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE OF GLASSES -- Part I: Introduction to Physical Properties and Their Uses -- Part II: Density -- 1.1 DENSITY: EXPERIMENTAL BACKGROUND AND THEORY -- Part III: Thermal Effects with a Focus on the Glass Transition Temperature -- 1.2 OVERVIEW -- 1.3 EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND THEORY -- 1.4 INSTRUMENTATION USED FOR DETERMINING Tg AND RELATED THERMAL EVENTS -- 1.5 ANALYSIS OF DATA AND EXTRACTION OF USEFUL INFORMATION -- 1.6 CASE STUDIES FROM GLASS SYSTEMS -- 1.7 CONCLUSION TO THERMAL PROPERTIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 2 INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF GLASSES -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 BACKGROUND AND THEORY -- 2.3 INSTRUMENTATION -- 2.4 ANALYSIS OF INFRARED DATA -- 2.5 CASE STUDIES -- 2.6 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 3 RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF GLASSES -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 BACKGROUND -- 3.3 INSTRUMENTATION AND DATA ANALYSIS -- 3.4 CASE STUDIES -- 3.5 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERING -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 BACKGROUND AND THEORY -- 4.3 INSTRUMENTATION -- 4.4 DATA ANALYSIS AND INFORMATION CONTENT -- 4.5 EXAMPLES OF CASE STUDIES -- 4.6 SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 5 NEUTRON DIFFRACTION TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF GLASSES -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 INSTRUMENTATION -- 5.3 THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF NEUTRON DIFFRACTION ON GLASSES -- 5.4 THE APPLICATION OF NEUTRON DIFFRACTION TO STUDIES OF GLASS STRUCTURE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Notes -- 6 X-RAY DIFFRACTION FROM GLASS -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 BACKGROUND/THEORY -- 6.3 ANALYSIS OF DATA, EXTRACTION OF USEFUL INFORMATION -- 6.4 INSTRUMENTATION -- 6.5 CASE STUDIES -- 6.6 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 7 XAFS SPECTROSCOPY AND GLASS STRUCTURE -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION.

7.2 THE ORIGINS OF X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTRA -- 7.3 XAFS INSTRUMENTATION -- 7.4 THE PHYSICAL MECHANISM OF XAFS -- 7.5 EXAFS -- 7.6 XAFS DATA ANALYSIS -- 7.7 EXAFS ACCURACY AND LIMITATIONS -- 7.8 XANES -- 7.9 XAFS SPECTROSCOPY APPLIED TO GLASS STRUCTURE: SOME EXAMPLES -- 7.10 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 8 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF GLASSES -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- 8.3 INSTRUMENTATION -- 8.4 DATA ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL INTERPRETATION -- 8.5 CASE STUDIES -- 8.6 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 9 ADVANCED DIPOLAR SOLID STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF GLASSES -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 THEORETICAL ASPECTS -- 9.3 HETERONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTS -- 9.4 HOMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTS -- 9.5 CASE STUDIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 10 ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY OF GLASSES -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 BACKGROUND AND THEORY -- 10.3 INSTRUMENTATION -- 10.4 ANALYSIS METHODS -- 10.5 CASE STUDIES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- EULA.