Materials / States of matter

Solid-State Imaging with Charge-Coupled Devices covers the complete imaging chain: from the CCD's fundamentals to the applications.

Cyclic Polymers (Second Edition) reviews the many recent advances in this rapidly expanding subject since the publication of the first edition in 1986.

Advances in nanoscale science show that the properties of many materials are dominated by internal structures.

Over the last two years we have witnessed a continuation in the breakthrough shift toward pulse tube cryocoolers for long-life, high-reliability cryocooler applications.

Oaxaca, Mexico, was the place chosen by a large international group of scientists to meet and discuss on the recent advances on the understanding of the physical prop- ties of low dimensional systems; one of the most active fields of research in condensed matter in the last years.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

Cryocoolers 10 is the premier archival publication of the latest advances and performance of small cryogenic refrigerators designed to provide localized cooling for military, space, semi-conductor, medical, computing, and high-temperature superconductor cryogenic applications in the 2-200 K temperature range.

Although rigidity has been studied since the time of Lagrange (1788) and Maxwell (1864), it is only in the last twenty-five years that it has begun to find applications in the basic sciences.

The International Conference on Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems was held on the campus of Boston College in Newton, Massachusetts, August 3-10, 1997.

In 1987 a major breakthrough occurred in materials science.

Since the discovery in 1986 of high temperature superconductors by J.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

In The New Superconductors, Frank J.

In this text, Shigeji Fujita and Salvador Godoy guide first and second-year graduate students through the essential aspects of superconductivity.

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science.

In this definitive text in the field, the author gives a detailed account of the major problem of applied superconductivitiy-the stability of superconductors.

Designed for graduate students in mechanical engineering, this textbook discusses the basic concepts of superconducting magnet technology.

The modeling of minerals and silicated materials is a.

This book gathers original contributions from a selected group of distinguished researchers that are actively working in the theory and practical applications of solvent effects and chemical reactions.

Self-assembly monolayer (SAM) structures of lipids and macromolecules have been found to play an important role in many industrial and biological phenomena.

This iconoclastic book proposes that superconductivity is misunderstood in contemporary science and that this hampers scientific and technological development.

Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson's Electron to Higgs' Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the Standard Model of particle physics in the early 21st century.

As the global push toward energy accelerates, NanoRevolution: Unveiling the Future of Energy through Advanced Materials and Digital Technologies brings forward a powerful vision of how advanced materials and digital technologies are redefining energy solutions.

This book systematically explains the mechanics of fracture phenomena, focusing on cracking under high temperature conditions.

As the global push toward energy accelerates, NanoRevolution: Unveiling the Future of Energy through Advanced Materials and Digital Technologies brings forward a powerful vision of how advanced materials and digital technologies are redefining energy solutions.

The study of materials is a major field of research that supports and drives innovation in technology.

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This book celebrates a few examples of the many women who have advanced the field of nanotechnology.

Fluid dynamics is the engineering science dealing with forces and energies generated by fluids in motion.

Given the widespread interest in macroscopic phenomena in liquid crystals, stemming from their applications in displays and devices.

Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear).

Wavelets as a Powerful Signal Processing ToolThe principles of wavelets can be applied to a range of problems in civil engineering structures, such as earthquake-induced vibration analysis, bridge vibrations, and damage identification.

This book brings together many different relaxation phenomena in liquids under a common umbrella and provides a unified view of apparently diverse phenomena.

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table.

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table.

This monograph, suitable for use as an advanced text, presents the statistical mechanics of solids from the perspective of the material properties of the solid state.

Due to its nondestructive imaging power, scanning tunneling microscopy has found major applications in the fields of physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

This graduate-level text reviews the field of critical phenomena, including the use of neutron scattering techniques as an aid in their study.

Superconductivity has become one of the most intensely studied physical phenomena of our times, with tremendous potential to revolutionize fields as diverse as computing and transportation.

Two topics in the forefront of superconductor research--superconductor-insulator transition in thin films and vortex tunneling in granular, bulk, and high temperature superconductors--have never before been given a unified and deductive treatment.

"e;Mesoscopic physics"e; refers to the physics of structures larger than a nanometer (one billionth of a meter) but smaller than a micrometer (one millionth of a meter).

Graphite intercalation compounds are a new class of electronic materials that are classified as graphite-based host guest systems.

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a coherent and updated comprehensive treatise that covers the central subjects of the field.

This landmark work chronicles the origin and evolution of solid state physics, which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960.