Materials Science and Engineering B provides an international medium for the publication of theoretical and experimental studies and reviews related to the electronic, ionic, magnetic and optical properties of materials both in bulk and in thin films. Papers dealing with the processing, characterization, structure and physical properties and computational aspects of the crystalline, amorphous and glassy forms of metals, superconductors, semiconductors, insertion compounds, low-dimensional compounds and systems, fast-ion conductors, polymers and dielectrics are viewed as suitable for publication.