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A First Example of a Lyotropic Smectic C* Analog Phase

Design, Properties and Chirality Effects

by Johanna. R Bruckner ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
In this thesis Johanna Bruckner reports the discovery of the lyotropic counterpart of the thermotropic SmC* phase, which has become famous as the only spontaneously polarized, ferroelectric fluid in nature. By means of polarizing optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction and electro-optic experiments she firmly establishes aspects of the structure of the novel lyotropic liquid crystalline phase and ... Read more

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In this thesis Johanna Bruckner reports the discovery of the lyotropic counterpart of the thermotropic SmC* phase, which has become famous as the only spontaneously polarized, ferroelectric fluid in nature. By means of polarizing optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction and electro-optic experiments she firmly establishes aspects of the structure of the novel lyotropic liquid crystalline phase and
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Neural-Network Simulation of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems

by Stefanie Czischek ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Quantum systems with many degrees of freedom are inherently difficult to describe and simulate quantitatively. The space of possible states is, in general, exponentially large in the number of degrees of freedom such as the number of particles it contains. Standard digital high-performance computing is generally too weak to capture all the necessary details, such that alternative quantum ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Quantum systems with many degrees of freedom are inherently difficult to describe and simulate quantitatively. The space of possible states is, in general, exponentially large in the number of degrees of freedom such as the number of particles it contains. Standard digital high-performance computing is generally too weak to capture all the necessary details, such that alternative quantum
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Structural Modeling of Metamaterials

by Vladimir I. Erofeev, Igor S. Pavlov ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book discusses the theoretical foundations of the structural modeling method applied to metamaterials. This method takes into account the parameters of the crystal lattice, the size of the medium particles, as well as their shape and constants of force interactions between them. It provides mathematical models of metamaterials that offer insights into the qualitative influence of the local ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book discusses the theoretical foundations of the structural modeling method applied to metamaterials. This method takes into account the parameters of the crystal lattice, the size of the medium particles, as well as their shape and constants of force interactions between them. It provides mathematical models of metamaterials that offer insights into the qualitative influence of the local
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Electrodynamics of Conducting Dispersive Media

by Babak Shokri, Anri A. Rukhadze ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book presents a sequential representation of the electrodynamics of conducting media with dispersion. In addition to the general electrodynamic formalism, specific media such as classical nondegenerate plasma, degenerate metal plasma, magnetoactive anisotropic plasma, atomic hydrogen gas, semiconductors, and molecular crystals are considered.The book draws on such classics as Electrodynamics ... Read more

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This book presents a sequential representation of the electrodynamics of conducting media with dispersion. In addition to the general electrodynamic formalism, specific media such as classical nondegenerate plasma, degenerate metal plasma, magnetoactive anisotropic plasma, atomic hydrogen gas, semiconductors, and molecular crystals are considered.The book draws on such classics as Electrodynamics
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21st Century Nanoscience - A Handbook

Advanced Analytic Methods and Instrumentation (Volume 3)

Edited by Klaus D. Sattler ...

Series series 21st Century Nanoscience
This up-to-date reference is the most comprehensive summary of the field of nanoscience and its applications. It begins with fundamental properties at the nanoscale and then goes well beyond into the practical aspects of the design, synthesis, and use of nanomaterials in various industries. It emphasizes the vast strides made in the field over the past decade – the chapters focus on new, promising ... Read more

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This up-to-date reference is the most comprehensive summary of the field of nanoscience and its applications. It begins with fundamental properties at the nanoscale and then goes well beyond into the practical aspects of the design, synthesis, and use of nanomaterials in various industries. It emphasizes the vast strides made in the field over the past decade – the chapters focus on new, promising
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Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructured Materials

Fabrication, Properties, and Applications

by Weiping Cai, Guotao Duan, Yue Li ...

Series series Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructured Materials: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications presents the latest fabrication, properties, and applications of hierarchical micro/nanostructured materials in two sections-powders and arrays. After a general introduction to hierarchical micro/nanostructured materials, the first section begins with a detailed ... Read more

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Hierarchical Micro/Nanostructured Materials: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications presents the latest fabrication, properties, and applications of hierarchical micro/nanostructured materials in two sections-powders and arrays. After a general introduction to hierarchical micro/nanostructured materials, the first section begins with a detailed
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Organic Solar Cells

Theory, Experiment, and Device Simulation

by Wolfgang Tress ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book covers in a textbook-like fashion the basics or organic solar cells, addressing the limits of photovoltaic energy conversion and giving a well-illustrated introduction to molecular electronics with focus on the working principle and characterization of organic solar cells. Further chapters based on the author’s dissertation focus on the electrical processes in organic solar cells by ... Read more

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This book covers in a textbook-like fashion the basics or organic solar cells, addressing the limits of photovoltaic energy conversion and giving a well-illustrated introduction to molecular electronics with focus on the working principle and characterization of organic solar cells. Further chapters based on the author’s dissertation focus on the electrical processes in organic solar cells by
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Ternary and Multinary Compounds

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, University of Salford, 8-12 September, 1997

Edited by R.D Tomlinson, A.E Hill, R.D Pilkington ...

Series series Institute of Physics Conference Series
Multinary compounds are now used in a wide range of devices, including photovoltaic solar cells, light emitters and detectors, and piezoelectric actuators. Ternary and Multinary Compounds provides an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers working on fundamental and applied aspects of these materials. The volume focuses on optoelectronic properties, electronic band structure, charge ... Read more

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Multinary compounds are now used in a wide range of devices, including photovoltaic solar cells, light emitters and detectors, and piezoelectric actuators. Ternary and Multinary Compounds provides an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and engineers working on fundamental and applied aspects of these materials. The volume focuses on optoelectronic properties, electronic band structure, charge
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Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics II

THz Circuits, Materials, Devices

Edited by Antonio Maffucci, Sergey A. Maksimenko ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The increasing prevalence of nanotechnologies has led to the birth of “nanoelectromagnetics,” a novel applied science related to the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with quantum mechanical low-dimensional systems.This book provides an overview of the latest advances in nanoelectromagnetics, and presents contributions from an interdisciplinary community of scientists and technologists ... Read more

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The increasing prevalence of nanotechnologies has led to the birth of “nanoelectromagnetics,” a novel applied science related to the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with quantum mechanical low-dimensional systems.This book provides an overview of the latest advances in nanoelectromagnetics, and presents contributions from an interdisciplinary community of scientists and technologists
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Nanomaterials in Daily Life

Compounds, Synthesis, Processing and Commercialization

by Zhypargul Abdullaeva ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book describes nanomaterials used and existing in the environment, food industry and packaging, health care products and cosmetics, housekeeping, nanomaterials for cleaning purposes, architectural building products, medicine, clothing and textile, smart electronics and sensors. Each chapter provides basic knowledge on synthesis of nanomaterials by biological approaches. Fundamental terms are ... Read more

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This book describes nanomaterials used and existing in the environment, food industry and packaging, health care products and cosmetics, housekeeping, nanomaterials for cleaning purposes, architectural building products, medicine, clothing and textile, smart electronics and sensors. Each chapter provides basic knowledge on synthesis of nanomaterials by biological approaches. Fundamental terms are
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Intermediate Statistical Mechanics

by Dhruba Banerjee, Jayanta K Bhattacharjee ...

In this new textbook, a number of unusual applications are discussed in addition to the usual topics covered in a course on Statistical Physics. Examples are: statistical mechanics of powders, Peierls instability, graphene, Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap, Casimir effect and the quantum Hall effect. Superfluidity and super-conductivity (including the physics of high-temperature superconductors ... Read more

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In this new textbook, a number of unusual applications are discussed in addition to the usual topics covered in a course on Statistical Physics. Examples are: statistical mechanics of powders, Peierls instability, graphene, Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap, Casimir effect and the quantum Hall effect. Superfluidity and super-conductivity (including the physics of high-temperature superconductors
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Sound Topology, Duality, Coherence and Wave-Mixing

An Introduction to the Emerging New Science of Sound

by Pierre Deymier, Keith Runge ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book offers an essential introduction to the notions of sound wave topology, duality, coherence and wave-mixing, which constitute the emerging new science of sound. It includes general principles and specific examples that illuminate new non-conventional forms of sound (sound topology), unconventional quantum-like behavior of phonons (duality), radical linear and nonlinear phenomena ... Read more

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This book offers an essential introduction to the notions of sound wave topology, duality, coherence and wave-mixing, which constitute the emerging new science of sound. It includes general principles and specific examples that illuminate new non-conventional forms of sound (sound topology), unconventional quantum-like behavior of phonons (duality), radical linear and nonlinear phenomena
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Power GaN Devices

Materials, Applications and Reliability

Edited by Enrico Zanoni, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Matteo Meneghini ...

Series series Power Electronics and Power Systems
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the properties and fabrication methods of GaN-based power transistors, with contributions from the most active research groups in the field. It describes how gallium nitride has emerged as an excellent material for the fabrication of power transistors; thanks to the high energy gap, high breakdown field, and saturation velocity of GaN, these ... Read more

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This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the properties and fabrication methods of GaN-based power transistors, with contributions from the most active research groups in the field. It describes how gallium nitride has emerged as an excellent material for the fabrication of power transistors; thanks to the high energy gap, high breakdown field, and saturation velocity of GaN, these
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Nanoscale Redox Reaction at Metal/Oxide Interface

A Case Study on Schottky Contact and ReRAM

by Takahiro Nagata ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Oxide materials are good candidates for replacing Si devices, which are increasingly reaching their performance limits, since the former offer a range of unique properties, due to their composition, design and/or doping techniques.The author introduces a means of selecting oxide materials according to their functions and explains metal/oxide interface physics. As he demonstrates, material ... Read more

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Oxide materials are good candidates for replacing Si devices, which are increasingly reaching their performance limits, since the former offer a range of unique properties, due to their composition, design and/or doping techniques.The author introduces a means of selecting oxide materials according to their functions and explains metal/oxide interface physics. As he demonstrates, material
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The Chemistry of CO2 and TiO2

From Breathing Minerals to Life on Mars

by Svatopluk Civiš, Martin Ferus, Antonín Knížek ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of CO2 in relation to surface interactions and photocatalytic transformation by UV radiation. The first part deals with the modelling of an anatase surface, its interaction with CO2, and the spontaneous exchange of oxygen atoms between the gas and solid phases. The book then naturally transitions to the photocatalytic reduction of CO2, ... Read more

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the chemistry of CO2 in relation to surface interactions and photocatalytic transformation by UV radiation. The first part deals with the modelling of an anatase surface, its interaction with CO2, and the spontaneous exchange of oxygen atoms between the gas and solid phases. The book then naturally transitions to the photocatalytic reduction of CO2,
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Modern Problems of the Physics of Liquid Systems

Selected Reviews from the 8th International Conference “Physics of Liquid Matter: Modern Problems”, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 18-22, 2018

Edited by Leonid A. Bulavin, Limei Xu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book presents a collection of selected reviews from PLMMP 2018 that address modern problems in the fields of liquids, solutions and confined systems, critical phenomena, as well as colloidal and biological systems. The papers focus on state-of-the-art developments in the contemporary physics of liquid matter, and are divided into four parts: (i) water and water systems, (ii) physical–chemical ... Read more

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This book presents a collection of selected reviews from PLMMP 2018 that address modern problems in the fields of liquids, solutions and confined systems, critical phenomena, as well as colloidal and biological systems. The papers focus on state-of-the-art developments in the contemporary physics of liquid matter, and are divided into four parts: (i) water and water systems, (ii) physical–chemical
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Molecular- and Nano-Tubes

Edited by Oliver Hayden, Kornelius Nielsch ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Molecular- and Nano-Tubes summarizes recent advancements in the synthesis, fabrication and applications of tubular structures. An interdisciplinary overview of innovative science focused on tubular structures is provided. The reader is offered an overview of the different fields that molecular and nano tubes appear in, in order to learn the fundamental basics as well as the applications of these ... Read more

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Molecular- and Nano-Tubes summarizes recent advancements in the synthesis, fabrication and applications of tubular structures. An interdisciplinary overview of innovative science focused on tubular structures is provided. The reader is offered an overview of the different fields that molecular and nano tubes appear in, in order to learn the fundamental basics as well as the applications of these
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2D Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

by Prof. Honey John, Ms. Parnia Forouzandeh, Dr. Pradeepan Periyat, Dr. Graeme Cunningham, Dr. N. Sandhyarani, Dr. Reny Thankam Thomas, Dr. Sujin P Jose, Dr. Srabanti Ghosh, Mr. Syam Kumar R, Ms. Payal Wadhwa, Dr. U. S. Hareesh ...

Series series IOP ebooks
This reference text provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in 2D materials for energy storage and conversion. It covers a wide range of 2D materials and energy applications, including 2D heterostructures for hydrogen storage applications, cathode and anode materials for lithium and sodium-ion batteries, ultrafast lithium and sodium-ion batteries, MXenes for improved ... Read more

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This reference text provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in 2D materials for energy storage and conversion. It covers a wide range of 2D materials and energy applications, including 2D heterostructures for hydrogen storage applications, cathode and anode materials for lithium and sodium-ion batteries, ultrafast lithium and sodium-ion batteries, MXenes for improved
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Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Spintronics

by Vladimir Litvinov ...

This second edition of the book presents spintronic properties of III–V nitride semiconductors. As wide bandgap III-nitride nanostructures are relatively new materials, the book pays particular attention to the difference between zinc-blende GaAs- and wurtzite GaN-based structures where the Rashba spin–orbit interaction plays a crucial role in voltage-controlled spin engineering. It also deals ... Read more

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This second edition of the book presents spintronic properties of III–V nitride semiconductors. As wide bandgap III-nitride nanostructures are relatively new materials, the book pays particular attention to the difference between zinc-blende GaAs- and wurtzite GaN-based structures where the Rashba spin–orbit interaction plays a crucial role in voltage-controlled spin engineering. It also deals
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Introduction to the Theory of Dielectric Resonators

by Alexander Trubin ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Embark on a comprehensive exploration of high-Q dielectric resonators. The book covers various shapes, introducing innovative scattering theories and new perspectives on coupling coefficients. It breaks ground by investigating coupled oscillations in diverse resonator types, shapes, and dielectrics, extending to frequency-detuned resonators and lattice formations. The revolutionary S-matrix ... Read more

$152.99 USD

Embark on a comprehensive exploration of high-Q dielectric resonators. The book covers various shapes, introducing innovative scattering theories and new perspectives on coupling coefficients. It breaks ground by investigating coupled oscillations in diverse resonator types, shapes, and dielectrics, extending to frequency-detuned resonators and lattice formations. The revolutionary S-matrix
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Handbook of the Physics of Thin-Film Solar Cells

by Karl W. Böer ...

Series series Energy (R0)
This handbook is a compendium giving a comprehensive description of the basics of semiconductor physics relevant to the design and analysis of thin film solar cell materials. It starts from the basics of material science, describing the material and its growth, defect and electrical properties, the basics of its interaction with photons and the involved statistics, proceeding to space charge ... Read more

$530.99 USD

This handbook is a compendium giving a comprehensive description of the basics of semiconductor physics relevant to the design and analysis of thin film solar cell materials. It starts from the basics of material science, describing the material and its growth, defect and electrical properties, the basics of its interaction with photons and the involved statistics, proceeding to space charge
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Intelligent Hydrogels

Edited by Walter Richtering, Gabriele Sadowski ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This volume of Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science assembles original contributions and invited reviews from the priority research program "Intelligent Hydrogels", funded by the German Science Foundation DFG since 2006, with about 25 contributing research groups. In the center of interest of this program and the present book are responsive hydrogels, i.e. hydrophilic polymer or polyelectrolyte ... Read more

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This volume of Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science assembles original contributions and invited reviews from the priority research program "Intelligent Hydrogels", funded by the German Science Foundation DFG since 2006, with about 25 contributing research groups. In the center of interest of this program and the present book are responsive hydrogels, i.e. hydrophilic polymer or polyelectrolyte
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Topology in Magnetism

Edited by Jiadong Zang, Vincent Cros, Axel Hoffmann ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book presents both experimental and theoretical aspects of topology in magnetism. It first discusses how the topology in real space is relevant for a variety of magnetic spin structures, including domain walls, vortices, skyrmions, and dynamic excitations, and then focuses on the phenomena that are driven by distinct topology in reciprocal momentum space, such as anomalous and spin Hall ... Read more

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This book presents both experimental and theoretical aspects of topology in magnetism. It first discusses how the topology in real space is relevant for a variety of magnetic spin structures, including domain walls, vortices, skyrmions, and dynamic excitations, and then focuses on the phenomena that are driven by distinct topology in reciprocal momentum space, such as anomalous and spin Hall
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Molecular Architectonics and Nanoarchitectonics

Edited by Thimmaiah Govindaraju, Katsuhiko Ariga ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book is the ultimate assembly of recent research activities on molecular architectonics and nanoarchitectonics by authors who are worldwide experts. The book proposes new ways of creating functional materials at the nano level using the concepts of molecular architectonics and nanoarchitectonics, which are expected to be the next-generation approaches beyond conventional nanotechnology. All ... Read more

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This book is the ultimate assembly of recent research activities on molecular architectonics and nanoarchitectonics by authors who are worldwide experts. The book proposes new ways of creating functional materials at the nano level using the concepts of molecular architectonics and nanoarchitectonics, which are expected to be the next-generation approaches beyond conventional nanotechnology. All
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