Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics)

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of scanning optical microscopy for scientists and engineers.

The field of quantum and molecular simulations has experienced strong growth since the time of the early software packages.

Unraveling the mystery of the negative thermal expansion of liquid water has been a challenge for scientists for centuries.

Two typical hybrid laser surface modification processes, i.

In this thesis Johanna Bruckner reports the discovery of the lyotropic counterpart of the thermotropic SmC* phase, which has become famous as the only spontaneously polarized, ferroelectric fluid in nature.

The book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Inventive Material Science Applications (ICIMA 2023) organized by PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, during May 11-12, 2023.

Physics of Thin Films is one of the longest running continuing series in thin film science, consisting of 25 volumes since 1963.

Despite the vast knowledge accumulated on silicon, germanium, and their alloys, these materials still demand research, eminently in view of the improvement of knowledge on silicon-germanium alloys and the potentialities of silicon as a substrate for high-efficiency solar cells and for compound semiconductors and the ongoing development of nanodevic

This graduate textbook provides a unified view of quantum information theory.

This thesis develops a nested sampling algorithm into a black box tool for directly calculating the partition function, and thus the complete phase diagram of a material, from the interatomic potential energy function.

Principles of Semiconductor Network Testing gathers together comprehensive information which test and process professionals will find invaluable.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the fundamental theory and applications of slow-neutron scattering.

The book reviews the properties of surface plasmons that depict electromagnetic surface waves or surface plasma polaritons.

This book presents the recent achievements towards the next generation of Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LEC).

The research on condensed molecular solids is truly interdisciplinary, spanning the range from statistical and molecular physics to solid-state-physics, chemistry, up to materials science.

This monograph discusses the essential principles of the evaporationprocess by looking at it at the molecular and atomic level.

This work pursues a novel route to functionalizing large surfaces with hybrid nanoparticles.

This monograph is devoted to a detailed treatment of the nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals.

This book brings together selective and specific chapters on nanoscale carbon and applications, thus making it unique due to its thematic content.

Carbon nanostructures, namely fullerenes, single and multiwall carbon nanotubes, graphene as well as the most recent graphene quantum dots and carbon nanodots, have experienced a tremendous progress along the last two decades in terms of the knowledge acquired on their chemical and physical properties.

This book provides a single-source reference to the state-of-the-art in emerging computer systems.

This book describes in great detail the semi-solid processing of aluminum alloys.

The renormalization group (RG) has nowadays achieved the status of a meta-theory, which is a theory about theories.

This set of lectures provides an introduction to the structure, thermodynamics and dynamics of liquids, binary solutions and polymers at a level that will enable graduate students and non-specialist researchers to understand more specialized literature and to possibly start their own work in this field.

Warm Dense Matter (WDM) occupies a loosely defined region of phase space intermediate between solid, liquid, gas, and plasma, and typically shares characteristics of two or more of these phases.

Researchers and engineers working in nuclear laboratories, nuclear electric plants, and elsewhere in the radiochemical industries need a comprehensive handbook describing all possible radiation-chemistry interactions between irradiation and materials, the preparation of materials under distinct radiation types, the possibility of damage of material

This is the second edition of a very popular 1991 book describing the physics and technology of semiconductor electronic devices exploiting the Hall effect.

This book collects recent topics of theoretical chemistry for advanced nanomaterials from the points of view of both computational and experimental chemistry.

Bringing together leading researchers from particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology, Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology presents reviews of current theoretical ideas, experimental results, and future perspectives in this topical field.

These lecture notes deal with the problem of collective coordinates in many-body systems, which are treated as gauge systems in (0+1) dimensions.

This textbook provides a theoretical background for contemporary trends in solid-state theory and semiconductor device physics.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the field of thermodynamic properties of solids due to the development of advanced experimental and modeling tools.

Spectroscopy of Condensed Media: Dynamics of Molecular Interactions discusses the use of molecular spectroscopy (including nuclear magnetic resonance [NMR] and nonlinear optical spectroscopy) in dynamic processes in condensed molecular systems.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.

Anisotropy of Metamaterials: Beyond Conventional Paradigms provides a comprehensive introduction to the mathematical modeling of metamaterials based on the macroscopic complex-valued permittivity tensor of dispersed random composites.

This book describes the development of a new low-cost medium wavelength IR (MWIR) monolithic imager technology for high-speed uncooled industrial applications.

This book introduces readers to the cutting-edge topic of nanophotonic photochemical reactions and their applications.

This book highlights a comprehensive review of synthesis, properties, and strategies to improve the applicability of 2D materials like graphene, borophenes, metal nanosheets, phosphorene, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

Environmental problems are becoming an important aspect of our lives as industries grow apace with populations throughout the world.

This book, a collection of works by leading figures in the field, is devoted to the latest developments of modern magnetism including micromagnetism, nanomagnetic materials, magnetic multilayers, macroscopic quantum magnetism, rare-earth intermetallic compounds, giant magnetoresistance, and their applications.

Wetting Theory discusses the numerous practical applications of wetting, such as preparing self-cleaning surfaces, manufacturing artificial blood vessels, and developing new lubricants and nonadhesive dishes.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Workshop 'Nonlinear Physics.

Explore the intriguing world of photocatalysis with Introduction to Photocatalysis: Fundamentals and Applications.

The revised second edition of this established text offers readers a significantly expanded introduction to the effects of radiation on metals and alloys.

This book is in honor of the contribution of Professor Xin Jiang (Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany) to diamond.

This book comprehensively summarizes the recent achievements and trends in encapsulation of micro- and nanocontainers for applications in smart materials.