Engineering applications of electronic, magnetic, optical materials

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology.

This book is the result of recent research that deals with the built environment and innovative materials, carried out by specialists working in universities and centers of research in different professional fields - architecture, engineering, physics - and in an area that that spans from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, and from South Eastern Europe to the Middle East.

This book brings together the state-of-the-art in energy and resources research.

This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art theoretical and simulation techniques for determining transport in complex band structure materials and nanostructured-geometry materials, linking the techniques developed by the electronic transport community to the materials science community.

This textbook, based on the authors' class-tested material, is accessible to students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate level in physics and engineering.

Designed to sit alongside more conventional established condensed matter physics textbooks, this compact volume offers a concise presentation of the principles of solid state theory, ideal for advanced students and researchers requiring an overview or a quick refresher on a specific topic.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the latest advances, challenges and accomplishments in the rapidly growing field of theoretical and computational materials science.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the new wide-bandgap semiconductor gallium oxide (Ga2O3).

This collection addresses the pressing needs for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and environmental pollutions and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and efficient and long-lasting energy supply.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in the development of semiconductor nanostructures and nanophotonic devices.

This thesis reports a rare combination of experiment and theory on the role of geometry in materials science.

This book presents sustainable synthetic pathways and modern applications of ammonia.

Written by a pioneer in the development of spin labeling in biophysics, this expert book covers the fundamentals of nitroxide spin labeling through cutting-edge applications in chemistry, physics, materials science, molecular biology, and biomedicine.

This book focuses on solar energy conversion systems that can be implemented in the built environment, at building or at community level.

This book focuses on the use of novel electron microscopy techniques to further our understanding of the physics behind electron-light interactions.

The long-awaited third edition of this classic textbook provides a genuinely accessible introduction to the principles and technology of optical communication systems.

Invisibility has fascinated people since time immemorial, but only a decade ago did invisibility become a serious subject of scientific investigation.

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This book describes the development, functioning, and results of a successful binational program to promote significant scientific advances in Earth-abundant photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), advanced process/manufacturing technologies, multiscale modeling and reliability testing, and analysis of integrated solar energy systems.

This book highlights the state of the art in solid electrolytes, with particular emphasis on lithium garnets, electrolyte-electrode interfaces and all-solid-state batteries based on lithium garnets.

This compact undergraduate textbook provides a concise yet thorough introduction to the fundamentals of solid-state physics, while also briefly discussing the historical context surrounding key scholars in the field.

In this book, the authors discuss some of the main challenges and new opportunities in science and engineering research, which involve combining computational and experimental approaches as a promising strategy for arriving at new insights into composition-structure-property relations, even at the nanoscale.

This classroom-tested textbook is a modern primer on the rapidly developing field of quantum nano optics which investigates the optical properties of nanosized materials.

This book includes both theoretical and practical aspects within optics, photonics and lasers.

This book provides detailed information on how to set up Deep Energy Retrofits (DERs) in public buildings, and shares in-depth insights into the current status of the major technologies, strategies and best practice examples of how to cost-effectively combine them.

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels.

This book systematically describes free-standing films and self-supporting nanoarrays growing on rigid and flexible substrates, and discusses the numerous applications in electronics, energy generation and storage in detail.

This book presents recent developments in the areas of engineering and technology, focusing on experimental, numerical, and theoretical approaches.

This thesis makes significant advances in the design of electrolytes and interfaces in electrochemical cells that utilize reactive metals as anodes.

This book provides the most up-to-date information on hybrid solar cell and solar thermal collectors, which are commonly referred to as Photovoltaic/Thermal (PV/T) systems.

This book explores key parameters, properties and fundamental concepts of electrocatalysis.

This thesis presents the discovery of a surprising phase transition between a topological and a broken symmetry phase.

What is the nature of light?

This updated, second edition textbook provides a thorough and accessible treatment of semiconductor lasers from a design and engineering perspective.

This book covers the recent development of metal oxides, hydroxides and their carbon composites for electrochemical oxidation of water in the production of hydrogen and oxygen as fuels.

This revised and updated edition of the well-received book by C.

A new experimental method - the "e;Stiffnessometer"e;, is developed to measure elementary properties of a superconductor, including the superconducting stiffness and the critical current.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the recent development trends in photovoltaics - a big business field that is rapidly growing and well on its way to maturity.

This textbook on quantum mechanics has been designed for use in two-semester undergraduate courses.

This book discusses advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as a way to provide safe, clean, and affordable nuclear power options.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the technology of flash lamp annealing (FLA) for thermal processing of semiconductors.

This book covers solar energy and the use of solar radiation in connection with lighting.

       This proceedings book presents dual approaches to examining new theoretical models and their applicability in the search for new scintillation materials and, ultimately, the development of industrial technologies.

This book presents the current advances in understanding of the fast excitation transfer processes in inorganic scintillation materials, the discovery of new materials exhibiting excellent time resolution, and the results on the evaluation of timing limits for scintillation detectors.

This book presents synthesis techniques for the preparation of low-dimensional nanomaterials including 0D (quantum dots), 1D (nanowires, nanotubes) and 2D (thin films, few layers), as well as their potential applications in nanoelectronic systems.

This book will provide readers with deep insight into the intriguing science of thermoelectric thin films.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the sol to gel transition in inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems, one of the most important chemical-physical transitions and the basis of the sol-gel process.

This review book focuses on the structure-property relationships of polyurethane nanocomposite foams in comparison with those of conventional polyurethane composite foams.

This book provides an overview of the current state of the art in novel piezo-composites based on ferroelectrics.

This book describes the rapidly expanding field of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes).