Editor\u27s Foreword

This issue, as well as the previous issue, of Educational Considerations is devoted to the concept of financing public elementary and secondary education in the United States

Funding Public Education Based on the Concept of Cost of Living

The vast majority of education finance researchers would concede that cost of living issues are legitimate variables for any education finance distribution program

Guest Editors\u27 Foreword

This issue, as well as the next, is devoted to the financing of public elementary and secondary schools in America

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Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 25, no. 1, Fall 1997

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Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 25, no. 2, Spring 1998

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Atomistic Simulations of Metallic Cluster Coalescence

A new computational method is introduced to investigate the stresses developed in the island-coalescence stage of polycrystalline film formation during deposition. The method uses molecular dynamics to examine the behavior of clusters of atoms both in free space and on substrates. Continuum treatments used in previous models may not be applicable at small length scales or low dimensionality. In atomistic simulations, the effects of surface diffusion, bond straining and defect formation can be directly studied. TEM experiments will be used to evaluate the validity of the simulation model.Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA

Metallic Cluster Coalescence: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Boundary Formation

During the evaporative deposition of polycrystalline thin films, the development of a tensile stress at small film thicknesses is associated with island coalescence. Several continuum models exist to describe the magnitude of this tensile stress but the coalescence stress becomes significant at small enough thicknesses to draw the continuum models into question. For nanometer-sized islands, we perform atomistic simulations of island coalescence to determine if the atomistic methods and continuum models are mutually consistent. The additional detail provided by the atomistic simulations allows for study of the kinetics of island coalescence and the treatment of different crystallographic orientations. We find that the atomistic simulations are consistent with the continuum models. We also note that the atomistic simulations predict extremely fast coalescence times and include the possibility of island rotations during coalescence.Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA