Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

Focusing on practical applications, the author provides a balanced introduction to the many possible technological uses of metal complexes.

The study of sliding friction is one of the oldest problems in physics, and certainly one of the most important from a practical point of view.

Modern cosmology has changed significantly over the years, from the discovery to the precision measurement era.

In this book the author carefully analyses the role of the concept of causality in Quantum Electrodynamics.

Columnar structures, many of which are helical, refer to dense cylindrical packings of particles.

A revised second edition, dedicated to the technology and physics of LEDs.

Starting from first principles, this graduate-level monograph discusses turbulent flow in a wide range of geophysical and astrophysical settings.

Many books and reviews about scanning probe microscopies (SPM) cover the basics of their performance, novel developments, and state-of-the-art applications.

This textbook serves to supplement existing quantum mechanics courses with the WKB (Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin) theory for recently discovered Dirac materials, such as graphene, a dice lattice, and alpha-T3 materials.

This book covers the latest trends in the design of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), which are the front-end sensors in modern photon counting systems.

Since 1963 the Research Materials Information Center has been answering inquiries on the availability, preparation, and properties of ultrapure inorganic research specimens.

In the 1990s, nanoparticles and quantum dots began to be used in optical, electronic, and biological applications.

The Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon, was the venue for the 1997 Cryogenic Engineering Conference.

What are the relations between the shape of a system of cities and that of fish school?

The first part of this three-volume treatment, Phonons: Theory and Exper- iments I, has been devoted to the basic concepts of the physics of phonons and to a study of models of interatomic forces.

This book presents mechanics miniaturization trends explored step by step, starting with the example of the miniaturization of a mechanical calculator.

This book offers a guide to understanding models of vortex rings, starting from classical ones (circular vortex filament, Hill and Norbury-Fraenkel inviscid models) to very recent models incorporating viscous effects and realistic shapes of the vortex core.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

Erhard Scheibe is one of the most outstanding German philosophers of science.

This volume contains invited and contributed papers presented at the conference on 'Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials' held at the University of Cambridge on 2-5 April 2007.

The energy cost associated with modern information technologies has been increasing exponentially over time, stimulating the search for alternative information storage and processing devices.

The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS),Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002.

This book is the result of frustration.

This book is about spin systems as models for magnetic materials, especially antiferromagnetic lattices.

This book explains modern and interesting physics in heavy-fermion (HF) compounds to graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics.

The present book gives a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physics of life and the particular role played by lipids (fats) and the lipid-bilayer component of cell membranes.

This book explores the status of paper-based diagnostic solutions, or Microfluidics 2.

These papers provide an interesting collection of contributions on fundamental magnetic behaviour, microstructural studies, processing methods and applications of rare earth, iron-rich, high performance permanent magnets.

This book provides a systematic description of the molecular structures and bonding in simple compounds of the main group elements with particular emphasis on bond distances, bond energies and coordination geometries.

Quantum field theoretical applications for graduate students in statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics.

This book contains a comprehensive description of the mechanical equilibrium and deformation of membranes as a surface problem in differential geometry.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry Collections presents critical reviews from the journal Topics in Current Chemistry organized in topical volumes.

This monograph deals with the behavior of essentially nonlinear heterogeneous materials in processes occurring under intense dynamic loading, where microstructural effects play the main role.

Flexible-electronics is rapidly finding many main-stream applications where low-cost, ruggedness, light weight, unconventional form factors and ease of manufacturability are just some of the important advantages over their conventional rigid-substrate counterparts.

Fuel Cells have become a potentially highly efficient sustainable source of energy and electricity for an ever-demanding power hungry world.

Cosmology has undergone a revolution in recent years.

This book deals with the use of the hodograph equation in phase transformations in condensed matter, especially, for crystallization and solidification processes.

Nanotechnology has been established in membrane technology for decades.

Quantal density functional theory (Q-DFT) is a new local effective potential energy theory of the electronic structure of matter.

This book presents the fundamentals of the thermoelectrical effect in silicon carbide (SiC), including the thermoresistive, thermoelectric, thermocapacitive and thermoelectronic effects.

This graduate textbook describes the transport phenomena in systems of nanoscale dimensions for graduate students in physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering.

This book explores the application of external physical fields to the solidification processing of metallic alloys.

This book, the first of this kind, provides a comprehensive introduction to ultrafast phenomena, covering the fundamentals of ultrafast spin and charge dynamics, femtosecond magnetism, all-optical spin switching, and high-harmonic generation.

A comprehensive overview of industrial crystallization, its theory and practice, including recent advances, real world case studies, and worked examples.

This book sheds light on the molecular aspects of liquids and liquid-based materials such as organic or inorganic liquids, ionic liquids, proteins, biomaterials, and soft materials including gels.

This book describes the design, construction, and characterization of a new type of aberration-corrected, neutral-atom lens.

Collected in this volume are nineteen selected contributions written by twenty-six scholars in the field, in honour of their teacher and colleague, Professor Joseph Marin.