Materials / States of matter

This book provides an overview of the electronic applications of nanotechnology.

The book provides an overview of the author's work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions, such as solving the problem of critical indices of the metal-insulator transition in doped semiconductors, investigation of transitions from different kinds of hopping conductivity, development of the 'hopping spectroscopy' method that allows to reveal the details of the density-of-states near the Fermi level - appearance of a hard 'magnetic gap', temperature induced smearing of the soft Coulomb gap, the 'phononless' hopping and so on.

This book provides a complete overview of a wide range of nanomaterials from their synthesis and characterization to current and potential applications with special focus on the use of such nano-based products as functional agents in biomedical, environmental and industrial applications.

This book provides a new understanding of the large amount of experimental results gained in solid state physics during the last seven decades.

'Written by two professors emeriti with a long and distinguished career both in research and teaching, the book clearly shows the wide experience of its authors .

This book presents, in the form of reviews by world's leading physicists in wide-ranging fields in theoretical physics, the influence and prescience of Skyrme's daring idea of 1960, originally conceived for nuclear physics, that fermions can arise from bosons via topological solitons, pervasively playing a powerful role in wide-ranging areas of physics, from nuclear/astrophysics, to particle physics, to string theory and to condensed matter physics.

This book includes problems based on the material in the course of physical kinetics for the students of general and applied physics.

Geometry and topology have been a fascination in physics since the start of the 20th century.

This book highlights the principles, research advances, and applications of plasmonic photocatalysis.

Cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) generators have been actively developed as a new device for medical treatment.

The book is a collection of best selected research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Inventive Material Science Applications (ICIMA 2022) organized by PPG Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, during May 6-7, 2022.

This book presents state-of-the-art coverage of synthesis of advanced functional materials.

This book offers a concise primer on energy conversion efficiency and the Shockley-Queisser limit in single p-n junction solar cells.

This book presents state-of-the-art coverage of synthesis of advanced functional materials.

This volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators.

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented in the 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances and Application (ICAIAA 2021), held in Poornima College of Engineering, Jaipur, India during 27-28 March 2021.

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

'Overall, the text is very well written in a style that is precise yet easy to understand and interesting to follow .

This book introduces the physical principles behind levitation with superconductors, and includes many examples of practical magnetic levitation demonstrations using superconducting phenomena.

This book highlights the growing applications of THz technology and various modules used for their successful realization.

This book focuses on chemical reactions and processing under extreme conditions-how materials react with highly concentrated active species and/or in a very confined high-temperature and high-pressure volume.

This book covers the important contributions of the Chinese during the development of high-temperature superconductors (HTS).

This book offers a balanced and comprehensive guide to the core principles, fundamental properties, experimental approaches, and state-of-the-art applications of two major groups of emerging non-volatile memory technologies, i.

This book is a primer on the interplay between plasma and materials in a fusion reactor, so-called plasma-materials interactions (PMIs), highlighting materials and their influence on plasma through PMI.

This unique volume provides a broad introduction to plasmon resonances in nanoparticles and their novel applications.

This book highlights the latest advances in bioMEMS for biosensing applications.

The book is aimed at assessing the capabilities of state-of-the-art optical techniques in elucidating the fundamental electronic and structural properties of semiconductor and metal surfaces, interfaces, thin layers, and layer structures, and assessing the usefulness of these techniques for optimization of high quality multilayer samples through feedback control during materials growth and processing.

This book is a collection of lecture notes which were presented by invited speakers at the Eleventh School on Theoretical Physics 'Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter SSPCM 2014' in Rzeszow (Poland) in September 2014.

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Soft Computing for Intelligent Systems (SCIS 2020), held during 18-20 December 2020 at University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India.

This book highlights the symmetry properties of acoustic fields and describes the gauge invariance approach, which can be used to reveal those properties.

This book is a compilation of selected papers presented at the 3rd Malaysian International Tribology Conference (MITC 2020) held in Langkawi, Malaysia, September 28-30, 2020.

This book presents the new discovery of the origin of turbulence from Navier-Stokes equations.

This book highlights state-of-the-art in III-nitrides-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

The book includes a thorough description of a wide range of physical properties of organic superconductors of reduced dimensionality.

This volume is the third edition of the first-ever elementary book on the Langevin equation method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian motion of particles and spins in a potential highlighting modern applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and so on.

This book provides a relatively complete introduction to the methods used in computational condensed matter.

This book highlights a series of new itinerant electron models proposed based on the experimental results of electron spectra obtained since 1970.

This book presents recent developments and future scopes of glassy systems, such as their electrical and optical properties, use as electrodes, photonics devices, battery applications and others, which are of great interest for material scientists and professionals.

This book is meant as an introduction to graphene plasmonics and aims at the advanced undergraduate and graduate students entering the field of plasmonics in graphene.

The book provides an introduction to nanostructured materials and guides the reader through their different engineering applications.

This book highlights the state-of-the-art research and discovery in the use of MOFs in catalysis, highlighting the scope to which these novel materials have been incorporated by the community.

This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms.

This book derives from the content of graduate courses on cold atomic gases, taught at the Renmin University of China and at the University of Science and Technology of China.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the two fundamental aspects of a solid that determine its physical properties: lattice structure and atomic vibrations (phonons).

This book highlights recent advances in quantum control technologies with regard to hybrid quantum systems.

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Applications of Networks, Sensors and Autonomous Systems Analytics (ICANSAA 2020), held during December, 11 - 12, 2020, at JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

The book presents an advanced tool for experimentalists using spectral lineshapes for diagnostics of laboratory or astrophysical plasmas, and for theorists helping the experimentalists in interpreting the experimental line profiles.

This book contains papers presented in the 3rd International Conference on Separation Technology 2020 (ICoST 2020) held from 15 to 16th August 2020 at Johor, Malaysia.

This book highlights recent advances and applications in terahertz (THz) technology, addressing advanced topics such as THz biomedical imaging, pattern recognition and tomographic reconstruction for THz biomedical imaging by machine learning and artificial intelligence, THz imaging radars for autonomous vehicle applications, and THz imaging systems for security and surveillance.