Scientific standards, measurement etc

This book is intended for scientists and engineers in the field of micro- and nano- electro-mechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and introduces the development of cantilever-based sensor systems using CMOS-compatible micromachining from the design concepts and simulations to the prototype.

Das Buch beinhaltet die Ergebnisse des dreijährigen Verbundprojekts "Separator i4.

A broad class of accelerators rests on the induction principle whereby the accelerating electrical fields are generated by time-varying magnetic fluxes.

This thesis presents significant new observations of nuclear wobbling, and thus expands our understanding of nuclear triaxiality and its prevalence in the nuclear chart.

Wideband Radar focuses on system theories and signal processing techniques for wideband radar systems.

This practical handbook provides a clearly structured, concise and comprehensive account of the huge variety of atmospheric and related measurements relevant to meteorologists and for the purpose of weather forecasting and climate research, but also to the practitioner in the wider field of environmental physics and ecology.

New interferometers as the VLTI, the Keck-I and CHARA along with their sophisticated instrumentation have provided new levels of accuracy, spectral resolution and access to various spectral bands from the optical to the thermal infrared.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory have been the pioneering satellites for studying the Universe with X-rays and the cornerstone of X-ray spectroscopy since their launches more than 20 years ago.

Tests of the current understanding of physics at the highest energies achievable in man-made experiments are performed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Modeling Nanoscale Imaging in Electron Microscopy presents the recent advances that have been made using mathematical methods to resolve problems in microscopy.

The study of nuclear reaction dynamics and thermodynamics with nuclear degrees of freedom has progressed dramatically in the past 20 years, from inclusive charge distributions to exclusive isotopically resolved fragment observables and from schematic phenomenological break-up models to sophisticated quantum many-body transport theories.

This book summarizes the main methods of experimental stress analysis and examines their application to various states of stress of major technical interest, highlighting aspects not always covered in the classic literature.

Solid state field-effect devices such as organic and inorganic-channel thin-film transistors (TFTs) have been expected to promote advances in display and sensor electronics.

This book provides an introduction to the field of Penning traps and related experimental techniques.

Digitale Oszilloskope, Netzwerk- und Spektrumanalysatoren gehören in Forschung, Lehre und Praxis zu den wichtigsten Messgeräten.

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This book highlights the most complete characterization of the Higgs boson properties performed to date in the "e;golden channel,"e; i.

Thermoluminescence (TL) is a well-established technique widely used in do- metric and dating applications.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Dieses seit Jahren bewährte und international verbreitete Standardwerk der Bildverarbeitung baut auf Prinzipien und mathematischen Methoden auf, die aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik bekannt sind.

Progress in atomic physics has been so vigorous during the past decade that one is hard pressed to follow all the new developments.

This book describes the application of a novel technology for beam instrumentation and luminosity measurement and first results on a cutting edge technology potentially to be used after the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider to higher luminosity.

A comprehensive introduction to the history, theory, and policy implications of self-governance in commercial and academic science communities.

The book covers in particular state-of-the-art scientific research about product quality control and related health and environmental safety topics, including human, animal and plant safety assurance issues.

This thesis addresses two different topics, both vital for implementing modern high-energy physics experiments: detector development and data analysis.

This book gathers, for the first time, an overview of nearly all of the magnetic sensors that exist today.

The search for neutrinoless double beta decay is one of the highest priority areas in particle physics today; it could provide insights to the nature of neutrino masses (currently not explained by the Standard Model) as well as how the universe survived its early stages.

This book reports a search for theoretically natural supersymmetry (SUSY) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

This book describes hydration structures of proteins by combining experimental results with theoretical considerations.

Dieses seit Jahren bewährte und international verbreitete Standardwerk der Bildverarbeitung baut auf Prinzipien und mathematischen Methoden auf, die aus Naturwissenschaft und Technik bekannt sind.

Since the time our first book Fault Diagnosis in Dynamic Systems: The- ory and Applications was published in 1989 by Prentice Hall, there has been a surge in interest in research and applications into reliable methods for diag- nosing faults in complex systems.

Seven years have passed since the publication of the previous edition of this book.

This book provides undergraduate physics majors and students of related sciences with a sound basic understanding of electronics and how it is used, principally in the physical sciences.

In recent decades, surface and interface physics has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within the physics of condensed matter as well as an interdisciplinary ?

This book recasts the classical Gaussian error calculus from scratch, the inducements concerning both random and unknown systematic errors.

This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data handling.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in infrared thermography (IRT) applications with a focus on moisture assessment in buildings.

The use of infrasound to monitor the atmosphere has, like infrasound itself, gone largely unheard of through the years.

This is the first book summarizing the theoretical basics of thermal nondestructive testing (TNDT) by combining elements of heat conduction, infrared thermography, and industrial nondestructive testing.

This book offers a genuinely practical introduction to the most commonly encountered optical and non-optical systems used for the metrology and characterization of surfaces, including guidance on best practice, calibration, advantages and disadvantages, and interpretation of results.

From a perspective of precision instrumentation, this book provides a guided tour to readers on exploring the inner workings of atomic force microscopy (AFM).

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is one of the most powerful analytical methods.

The aim of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive summary of sensing and measurement in precision manufacturing, which is essential for process and quality control.

This book presents recent progresses in control, automation, robotics and measuring techniques.

Measuring the long-term durability of new types of concrete and concrete technologies is crucial to their acceptance in the marketplace.