This work constitutes the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Electrical Machines and Drives. There are 83 papers altogether.

Proceedings of the 1997 Cryogenic Engineering Conference, July/August 1997, Portland, Oregon. Contains 263 papers discussing latest developments in cryogenic research. Reports on innovations in: superconductivity applications; superconducting RF technologies; design, performance, technology and applications of magnets; the large hadron collider (LHC); large-scale systems; mechanisms, machinery, instrumentation, and control; cryoelectronics; cryobiology and medical applications; space, electric power, and transportation applications; thermal and helium properties and mass transport; and heat exchangers, cryopumps, heat pipes and cryocoolers, including regenerative and pulse tube cryocoolers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contains papers from a May 1997 symposium, divided into sections on processing and single crystal growth, crystal structure and synthesis, phase equilibria and crystal growth, films and applications, and wires and composites. Papers address current processing techniques and methods for high temperat

Proceedings of a session at an April 1999 meeting of The American Ceramic Society, reporting on perovskite oxides for electronic, energy conversion, and energy efficiency applications. Papers are in sections on chemistry and synthesis, structure/property relationships in perovskites, and processing