Optical physics

Three dimensional (3D) optical geometries are becoming more common in the literature and lexicon of solar cells.

Nanoscale Applications for Information and Energy Systems presents nanotechnology fundamentals and applications in the key research areas of information technology (electronics and photonics) and alternative (solar) energy: plasmonics, photovoltaics, transparent conducting electrodes, silicon electroplating, and resistive switching.

This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of optical approaches used in brain imaging and therapy.

"e;Telescopes and Techniques"e; has proved itself in its first edition, having become probably one of the most widely used astronomy texts, both for numerate amateur astronomers and for astronomy and astrophysics undergraduates.

The use of pattern recognition and classification is fundamental to many of the automated electronic systems in use today.

Materials and Reliability Handbook for Semiconductor Optical and Electron Devices provides comprehensive coverage of reliability procedures and approaches for electron and photonic devices.

This book describes the state-of-the-art in energy efficient, fault-tolerant embedded systems.

Quantum dots as nanomaterials have been extensively investigated in the past several decades from growth to characterization to applications.

This book is a compendium of the finest research in nanoplasmonic sensing done around the world in the last decade.

Nonlinear Photonics and Novel Optical Phenomena contains contributed chapters from leading experts in nonlinear optics and photonics, and provides a comprehensive survey of fundamental concepts as well as hot topics in current research on nonlinear optical waves and related novel phenomena.

Enhancement cavities are passive optical resonators in which continuous-wave laser radiation or pulses of a frequency comb are coherently overlapped, allowing for a power and intensity scaling of up to several orders of magnitude.

Rectenna Solar Cells discusses antenna-coupled diode solar cells, an emerging technology that has the potential to provide ultra-high efficiency, low-cost solar energy conversion.

Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 3, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the third volume of six from the Conference, brings together 26 contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Theory, Analysis and Design of RF Interferometric Sensors presents the theory, analysis and design of RF interferometric sensors.

Planetary Nebulae and How to Observe Them is for amateur astronomers who want to go beyond the Messier objects, concentrating on one of the most beautiful classes of astronomical objects in the sky.

In this brief we review several approaches that provide super resolved imaging, overcoming the geometrical limitation of the detector as well as the diffraction effects set by the F number of the imaging lens.

Reviews in Plasmonics 2010, the first volume of the new book serial from Springer, serves as a comprehensive collection of current trends and emerging hot topics in the field of Plasmonics and closely related disciplines.

This book presents the fundamental physics of optical interferometry as applied to biophysical, biological and medical research.

Regularity and Complexity in Dynamical Systems describes periodic and chaotic behaviors in dynamical systems, including continuous, discrete, impulsive, discontinuous, and switching systems.

Fractional Dynamics and Control provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, vibration and control with analytical, numerical, and experimental results.

The formation of images by ultrasound is a fascinating study, with well-established, yet rapidly growing, applic- ations in medicine and with increasing relevance to a surprisingly disparate set of problems in the non-destructive examination of materials and components.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications SOLITONS IN PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, AND NONLINEAR OPTICS is based on the proceedings of two workshops which were an integral part of the 1988-89 IMA program on NONLINEAR WAVES.

The First Binational USA-USSR Seminar-Symposium on the Theory of Light Scattering in Condensed Matter was held in Moscow 26-30 May 1975.

Shortly after the inception of the Brown Boveri Research Center in 1966, plans were made to organize a series of biennial scientific symposia.

Many years spent in an industrial engineering laboratory have convinced me that there is ever-increasing need to present recent and current research in forms which can be easily assimilated by engineers, technical managers, and others concerned with applications and the development of new tech- nology.

Since the first papers by E.

This volume contains the proceedings of a two-week NATO A.

This text is intended to provide an in-depth, self-contained, treatment of optical waveguide theory.

The Advanced Study Institute on Fiber and Integrated Optics was held at Cargese from June 23 to July 7, 1978, at a time when both fields were undergoing a very rapid evolution.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging, held in Key Biscayne, Miami, Florida May 29th to June 2nd, 1978.

This volume contains the Proceedings of a two-week NATO A.

This book contains a selection of papers and articles in instrumentation previously pub- lished in technical periodicals and journals of learned societies.

This book has been written as part of a new series of scientific text-books being published by Plenum Publishing Company Limited.

A fundamental problem in cell biology is the cause of aging.

IMAGE TRACKS AT HALIFAX by L.

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in Second Generation Image and Video Coding Techniques.

An impulse for writing this book has originated from the effort to sum- marize and publicise the acquired results of a research team at the De- partment of Automation of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and In- formatics, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava.

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a powerful methodology for the quantitative analysis of geometrical structures.

This book presents an account of the course "e;Spectroscopy of Solid-State Laser-Type Materials"e; held in Erice, Italy, from June 16 to 30, 1985.

Here is the first graduate-level textbook to offer an introduction to the field of laser spectroscopy.

There are many books in the market devoted to the review of certain fields.

IMA Volumes 135: Transport in Transition Regimes and 136: Dispersive Transport Equations and Multiscale Models focus on the modeling of processes for which transport is one of the most complicated components.

The Perception of Illusory Contours is a complete and comprehensive volume on one of the most important phenomena in modern perception research.

A textbook on lasers and optical engineering should include all aspects of lasers and optics; however, this is a large undertaking.

Probing matter with beams of photons, neutrons and electrons provides the main source of information about both the microscopic and macroscopic structure of materials.

The contributions of this book represent only a small sample of the work of the many researcher electromagneticians who have had the pleasure of being associated with Professor Papas, either as students or as colleagues.

Certain magnetic materials have optical properties that make them attractive for a wide variety of applications such as optical switches.