Optical physics

In the past ten years, heteroepitaxy has continued to increase in importance with the explosive growth of the electronics industry and the development of a myriad of heteroepitaxial devices for solid state lighting, green energy, displays, communications, and digital computing.

Shelving Guide: Electrical Engineering In 1900 the great German theoretical physicist Max Planck formulated a correct mathematical description of blackbody radiation.

Advances in Magnetic Materials: Processing, Properties, and Performance discusses recent developments of magnetic materials, including fabrication, characterization and applications in the aerospace, biomedical, and semiconductors industries.

This dedicated overview of optical compressive imaging addresses implementation aspects of the revolutionary theory of compressive sensing (CS) in the field of optical imaging and sensing.

This new edition details the important features of beam shaping and exposes the subtleties of the theory and techniques that are best demonstrated through proven applications.

While books on the medical applications of x-ray imaging exist, there is not one currently available that focuses on industrial applications.

Semiconductor nanocrystals and metal nanoparticles are the building blocks of the next generation of electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices.

"e;This engagingly written text provides a useful pedagogical introduction to an extensive class of geometrical phenomena in the optics of polarization and phase, including simple explanations of much of the underlying mathematics.

Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals is a comprehensive and updated research monograph that focuses on recent advances in metamaterials based on the effective medium theory in microwave frequencies.

This book sets out to build bridges between the domains of photonic device physics and neural networks, providing a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of "e;neuromorphic photonics.

The fiber laser, with its humble beginning in the late 1980s, has undergone tremendous development in the past decade or so, transforming itself from a research curiosity to a major force in modern manufacturing.

This book is designed to introduce typical cleanroom processes, techniques, and their fundamental principles.

This highly comprehensive, introductory book explains the basics of structural health monitoring aspects of composite structures.

During the last decade, there has been a great deal of interest in TFETs.

Visible Light Communications, written by leading researchers, provides a comprehensive overview of theory, stimulation, design, implementation, and applications.

Shelving Guide: Electrical EngineeringSince the 1980s more than 100 books on the finite element method have been published, making this numerical method the most popular.

This book is a reference for researchers who want to learn about resonant periodic structures for applications in microstrip circuits.

Polycrystalline silicon (commonly called "e;polysilicon"e;) is the material of choice for photovoltaic (PV) applications.

This book systematically introduces physical characteristics and implementations of III-nitride wide bandgap semiconductor materials and electronic devices, with an emphasis on high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs).

This book will discuss how glass and glass ceramic interact with light, both transiently and permanently.

Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics is devoted to achievements in diffractive optics, focusing on the creation of new nanophotonic components and devices, as well as instrumentation and available information technology.

"e;This beautiful book can be read as a novel presenting carefully our quest to get more and more information from our observations and measurements.

Dielectrics in Electric Fields explores the influence of electric fields on dielectric-i.

In the extensive fields of optics, holography and virtual reality, technology continues to evolve.

Full-field optical coherence microscopy (FF-OCM) is an imaging technique that provides cross-sectional views of the subsurface microstructure of semitransparent objects.

Thanks to the pioneering works of Ashkin and coworkers, optical tweezers (OTs) have become an invaluable tool for myriad studies throughout the natural sciences.

Photonics is a key technology of this century.

Moore's Law predicts that the degree of microprocessor integration of circuits would double every 18 months in DRAM.

Space-time transformations as a design tool for a new class of composite materials (metamaterials) have proved successful recently.

The domain of metamaterials now covers many area of physics: electromagnetics, acoustics, mechanics, thermics, or even seismology.

In the recent decades, laser cooling or optical refrigeration-a physical process by which a system loses its thermal energy as a result of interaction with laser light-has garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to the importance of its applications.

This book summarizes the history and present status and applications of Josephson junctions.

Today, the concepts of single-electron tunneling (SET) are used to understand and model single-atom and single-molecule nanoelectronics.

This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications.

This comprehensive handbook gives a fully updated guide to lasers and laser technologies, including the complete range of their technical applications.

This overview of the analysis and design of buildings runs from basic principles and elementary structural analysis to the selection of structural systems and materials, and on to foundations and retaining structures.

This overview of the analysis and design of buildings runs from basic principles and elementary structural analysis to the selection of structural systems and materials, and on to foundations and retaining structures.

"e;a detailed, cognizant account of numerous crucial aspects of optical microring resonators"e; - Amr S.

"e;a detailed, cognizant account of numerous crucial aspects of optical microring resonators"e; - Amr S.

This reference book concentrates on microstructuring surfaces of optical materials with directed fluxes of off-electrode plasma generated by high-voltage gas discharge and developing methods and equipment related to this technique.

This reference book concentrates on microstructuring surfaces of optical materials with directed fluxes of off-electrode plasma generated by high-voltage gas discharge and developing methods and equipment related to this technique.

Spectroscopic Tools and Techniques for Analysis of Dental Materials: Current Trends introduces the dental materials and spectroscopic techniques applied for the analysis of such materials, including ceramic, metallic, polymeric and composites.

For courses in Optics A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background through a lively and clear narrative.

This book is aimed at students taking practical laboratory courses in experimental optics to help them understand the components within optical instruments.

This book is aimed at students taking practical laboratory courses in experimental optics to help them understand the components within optical instruments.

A systematic presentation of the foundations of imaging and wavefield inversion that bridges the gap between mathematics and physics.

The first comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the angular momentum of light, illustrating both its theoretical and applied aspects.

Fully revised and in its second edition, this standard reference on nano-optics is ideal for graduate students and researchers alike.

A self-contained treatment of field quantization requiring no prior knowledge of nonlinear optics.

A self-contained treatment of field quantization requiring no prior knowledge of nonlinear optics.