Materials science

Ferromagnetism of metallic systems, especially those including transition metals, has been a controversial subject of modern science for a long time.

Molecular Beam Epitaxy describes a technique in wide-spread use for the production of high-quality semiconductor devices.

Modern technologies increasingly rely on low-dimensional physics at interfaces and in thin-films and nano-structures.

The characterization of epitaxial layers and their surfaces has benefitted a lot from the enormous progress of optical analysis techniques during the last decade.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy II, like its predecessor, presents detailed and comprehensive accounts of the basic principles and the broad range of applications of STM and related scanning probe techniques.

Lectures on Non-linear Plasma Kinetics is an introduction to modern non-linear plasma physics showing how many of the techniques of modern non-linear physics find applications in plasma physics and how, in turn, the results of this research find applications in astrophysics.

High-Temperature Superconductors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the properties of these fascinating materials.

Tis book concentrates on atomic force microscopy (AFM), a method recently - veloped to study the surfaces of synthetic polymeric membranes.

Solid-State Theory - An Introduction"e; is a textbook for graduate students of physics and material sciences.

Intended for a two semester advanced undergraduate or graduate course in Solid State Physics, this treatment offers modern coverage of the theory and related experiments, including the group theoretical approach to band structures, Moessbauer recoil free fraction, semi-classical electron theory, magnetoconductivity, electron self-energy and Landau theory of Fermi liquid, and both quantum and fractional quantum Hall effects.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance is a powerful tool, especially for the identification of 1 13 hitherto unknown organic compounds.

The book reviews the two features of the variational approach: its use as a universal tool to describe physical phenomena and as a source for qualitative and quantitative methods of studying particular problems.

We are pleased by the positive resonance of our book which now necessitates a fourth edition.

The recent emergence and proliferation of proximal probes and computational techniques for simulating tip-surface interactions has led to the appearance of the new, interdisciplinary fields of micro/nanotribology and micro/nanomechanics.

Just like the periodical crystalline potential in solid-state crystals determines their properties for the conduction of electrons, the periodical structuring of photonic crystals leads to envisioning the possibility of achieving a control of the photon flux in dielectric and metallic materials.

This self-tutorial offers a concise yet thorough grounding in the mathematics necessary for successfully applying FEMs to practical problems in science and engineering.

In this book the longitudinal behavior of road vehicles is analyzed.

This concise and readable book addresses primarily readers with a background in classical statistical physics and introduces quantum mechanical notions as required.

"e;Systems of Commercial Turbofan Engines"e; gives the reader information about the operation of the engine systems, its components and the terminology used throughout the industry.

Surfaces and interfaces of polymers play an important role in most of the application areas of polymers, e.

How do engineering materials deform when bearing mechanical loads?

This hugely successful and highly acclaimed text is designed to meet the needs of materials scientists at all levels.

Light scattering is a very powerful method to characterize the structure of polymers and nanoparticles in solution.

The focus of this book is the physical modeling of mechatronic sensors and actuators and their precise numerical simulation using the Finite Element Method (FEM).

A new calculation method is presented for heat transfer in coupled convective-conductive fluid-wall systems under periodical intensity oscillations in fluid flow.

Fluid mechanics is a field that spreads widely and to all fields of engineering, science and medicine.

The subject of this book is model abstraction of dynamical systems.

The inspiration for this book can be traced back many years to two major works that in?

later versions.

In order to allow the application of the theory from all the three volumes also to processes in combustion engines a systematic set of internally consistent state equations for diesel fuel gas and liquid valid in broad range of changing pressure and temperature are provided also in Volume 3.

Applications of X-ray scattering to soft matter have advanced considerably within recent years, both conceptually and technically - mature high-power X-ray sources, synchrotrons and rotating anodes, as well as high-speed detectors have become readily available.

Ground Vehicle Dynamics is devoted to the mathematical modelling and dynamical analysis of ground vehicle systems composed of the vehicle body, the guidance and suspension devices and the corresponding guideway.

Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method presents an introduction as well as recent developments of this accurate, powerful, and versatile method.

Nanocrystals and Their Mesoscopic Organization is an up-to-date monograph on an important aspect of nanoscience and technology.

Over the past decades a considerable interest has been concentrated on problems involving signals and systems that depend on more than one variable.

Polymer physics is a key part of macromolecular science.

The investigation ofmost problems of quantum physics leads to the solution of the Schrodinger equation with an appropriate interaction Hamiltonian or potential.

The liquid crystalline state may be identified as a distinct and unique state of matter which is characterised by properties which resembles those of both solids and liquids.

Structural Analysis with Finite Elements, 2nd Edition provides a solid introduction to the foundation and the application of the finite element method in structural analysis.

Radiation Materials Science teaches readers the fundamentals of the effects of radiation on metals and alloys.

The rate of development in modern digital computer systems and software has led to an almost insatiable demand for ever increasing storage capacities.

Interface phenomena are most fascinating because of the mixing of different scales and the interference of diverse physical processes.

Superconductors have been known about since the turn ofthe century.

At the time I learned quantum field theory it was considered a folk theo- rem that it is easy to construct field theories fulfilling either the locality or the spectrum condition.