Materials / States of matter

Research advances in III-nitride semiconductor materials and device have led to an exponential increase in activity directed towards electronic and optoelectronic applications.

This book explores the fascinating field of high-temperature superconductivity.

The past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in the diversity and complexity of device applications where vacuum is required to support either high voltages or high electric fields.

Clear evidence of increasing demands in the processing industry prompted the editors and authors to publish a new book about High Pressure Process Technology: Fundamentals and Applications.

This volume in the Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids is the first and only book to provide comprehensive coverage of refractive index and thermo-optic coefficients.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

This reference provides engineers with values for thermal conductivity as a function of temperature for the major organic compounds.

The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications.

This book presents the author's view of how the global semiconductor industry will evolve, based on recent megatrends not only in the industry but also in society, including the rapid proliferation of AI, the global semiconductor shortage, the rising importance of semiconductors in the value chain, and the movement to democratize semiconductors.

As it results from the very nature of things, the spherical symmetry of the surrounding of a site in a crystal lattice or an atom in a molecule can never occur.

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

During the past fifteen years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of different surfaces whose structures have been determined experimentally.

The aim of this book is to provide a timely collection that highlights advances in current research of crystal growth ranging from fundamental aspects to current applications involving a wide range of materials.

This book deals with the electronic and optical properties of two low-dimensional systems: quantum dots and quantum antidots and is divided into two parts.

This book presents a consistent mathematical theory of the non-electronic physical properties of disordered and amorphous solids, starting from the atomic-level dynamics and leading to experimentally verifiable descriptions of macroscopic properties such as elastic and viscoelastic moduli, plasticity, phonons and vibrational spectra, and thermal properties.

Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors.

Each chapter presents a detailed background of the described method, its theoretical foundations, and its applicability to different biomedical material.

Many laser applications depend on the ability of a particular laser to be frequency tunable.

This text explains how hard disk drives operate, how billions of bytes of digital information are stored and accessed, and where the technology is going.

The second part of 'Statistical Physics' deals with the quantum theory of the condensed state of matter.

This Third Edition of ELECTRONS IN SOLIDS: AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, is the result of a thorough re-examination of the entire text, incorporating suggestions and corrections by students and professors who have used the text.

This book describes the computational methods most frequently used to deal with the interaction of charged particles, notably electrons, with condensed matter.

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

Although there are many books published in solid state physics, there is a wide gap between the active field of research and the conceptstraditionally taught in solid state courses.

Our current concept of matter, one of scientific research's greatest successes, represents a long journey, from questions posed during the birth of philosophy in Ancient Greece to recent advances in physics and chemistry, including Quantum Physics.

Since its inception in 1966, the series of numbered volumes known as Semiconductors and Semimetals has distinguished itself through the careful selection of well-known authors, editors, and contributors.

Advanced Chemistry of Monolayers at Interfaces describes the advanced chemistry of monolayers at interfaces.

The book contains 5 chapters with 19 contributions form internationally well acknowledged experts in various fields of crystal growth.

Current developments in optical technologies are being directed toward nanoscale devices with subwavelength dimensions, in which photons are manipulated on the nanoscale.

Surfactants have been used for many industrial processes such as flotation, enhanced oil recovery, soil remediation and cleansing.

The goal of this Volume "e;Conceptual Foundations of Materials: A standard model for ground- and excited-state properties"e; is to present the fundamentals of electronic structure theory that are central to the understanding and prediction of materials phenomena and properties.

This updated/augmented second edition retains it class-tested content and pedagogy as a core text for graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics and applied science.

The article by Fulde, Thalmeier and Zwicknagl traces many of the recent developments in the field of strongly correlated many electron systems.

This second volume in the Handai Nanophotonics book series covers the area of Nanoplasmonics, a recent hot topic in the field of nanophotonics, impacting a diverse range of research disciplines from information technology and nanotechnology to the bio- and medical sciences.

This book introduces the ideas and concepts of nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy, outlines its history, and provides insight into the present state of the art of the experimental technology and understanding of nonlinear dielectric effects.

Macroscopic objects made of magnetic materials have been known to mankind for several thousand years and are widely used in various fields of human activity.

Transient problems in transport phenomena have a variety of applications, ranging from drug delivery systems in chemotherapy in bioengineering to heat transfer to surfaces in fluidized bed combustion (FBC) boilers in mechanical engineering.

Nanotechnology is no longer a merely social talking point and is beginning to affect the lives of everyone.

A detailed treatment of the modern functional approach to non-equilibrium field-theoretical methods, now in its Second Edition.

Nuclear spins are highly coherent quantum objects that were featured in early ideas and demonstrations of quantum information processing.

Batteries for Portable Devices provides a comprehensive overview of all batteries used in portable electric and electronic, as well as medical devices.

This volume is another in the series of IUPAC sponsored monographs that summarize the state of knowledge with respect to experimental techniques in thermochemistry and thermodynamics.

This book provides an overview of electrodeposition of nanomaterials from principles to modern concepts for advanced materials in science and technology.

This book is a collection of contributions presented at the 16th annual international symposium "e;Frontiers of Fundamental Physics"e; (FFP16), supported by Istanbul University.

There are many more states of matter than just solid, liquid, and gas.

Written by three leading experts in the field, this book describes and explains all essential aspects of scanning probe microscopy.

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This book provides for the first time an insider's view into ITER, the biggest fusion reactor in the world, which is currently being constructed in southern France.

Granular forms of common materials such as metals and ceramics, sands and soils, porous energetic materials (explosives, reactive mixtures), and foams exhibit interesting behaviors due to their heterogeneity and critical length scale, typically commensurate with the grain or pore size.

Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials: From Fundamentals to Frontiers provides a comprehensive exploration of the theoretical foundations, material systems, and emerging applications of quantum materials with reduced dimensionality.