Front Cover; Solid State Physics; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors to Volume 46; Preface; Chapter 1. Band Offsets In Semiconductor Heterojunctions; I. Introduction; II. Theories and Empirical Rules; III. Experimental Techniques; IV. III-V Material Systems; V. II-VI Material Systems; VI. Strain Effects in Lattice-Mismatched Heterojunctions; VII. Heterovalent Material Systems; VIII. Discussion; IX. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 2. Physical Properties of Macroscopically lnhomogeneous Media; I. Introduction; II. DC Electrical Properties-General Theory and Calculational Techniques.

III. DC Electrical Properties-Applications to Specific ProblemsIV. Electromagnetic Properties; V. Nonlinear Properties and Flicker Noise; Acknowledgments; Chapter 3. Fundamental Magnetization Processes in Thin-Film Recording Media; I. Introduction; II. Microstructures and Magnetic Properties of Thin-Film Materials; III. Micromagnetic Modeling; IV. Reversal Processes and Domain Structures; V. Simulations of the Magnetic Recording Process; VI. Self-Organized Behavior in Magnetic Systems; Acknowledgments; Author Index; Subject Index; Cumulative Author Index.