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Group Theory in Solid State Physics and Photonics
Problem Solving with Mathematica
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
While group theory and its application to solid state physics is well established, this textbook raises two completely new aspects. First, it provides a better understanding by focusing on problem solving and making extensive use of Mathematica tools to visualize the concepts. Second, it offers a...
Solid State Properties
From Bulk to Nano
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book fills a gap between many of the basic solid state physics and materials science
books that are currently available. It is written for a mixed audience of electrical
engineering and applied physics students who have some knowledge of elementary
undergraduate quantum mechanics...
Energy-Aware System Design
Algorithms and Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Power consumption becomes the most important design goal in a wide range of electronic systems. There are two driving forces towards this trend: continuing device scaling and ever increasing demand of higher computing power. First, device scaling continues to satisfy Moore’s law via a conventional...
Boxcar Diplomacy
Two Trains that Crossed an Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
WWII was over, but in 1947, the challenge of rebuilding France had just begun. Fields were still pock-marked with ordnance and weather had so decimated the crop yield that there was not enough food to feed the population. Stalin was sweeping eastern bloc countries under an "iron curtain"...
by Henry Ehrenreich, Frans Spaepen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1997
Solid State Physics, Volume 51 continues the serial's tradition of excellence by focusing on the optical and electronic properties and applications of semiconductors. All of the topics in this volume are at the cutting-edge of research in the semiconductor field and will be of great interest to the scientific community.
by Thomas Pruschke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book will introduce advanced concepts and topics of solid-state theory. To this end we need a tool box that enables us to treat electron–electron interactions, and possibly also electron–phonon or phonon–phonon interactions in some well-defined, appro
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
by Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The importance of the effective mass (EM) is already well known since the inception of solid-state physics and this first-of-its-kind monograph solely deals with the quantum effects in EM of heavily doped (HD) nanostructures. The materials considered are HD quantum confined nonlinear optical, III-V,...
by Matthew D. McCluskey, Eugene E. Haller
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Praise for the First Edition
"The book goes beyond the usual textbook in that it provides more specific examples of real-world defect physics … an easy reading, broad introductory overview of the field"
―Materials Today
"… well written, with clear, lucid explanations...
by Barry R. Harker
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
It's Sunday in America is about the return of mandatory Sunday worship and rest to the center of American national life and how this will shape the future of America and the world.
American greatness rests upon its constitutional guarantees of civil and religious liberty. Separation of church and...
From Dissonance to Sense
Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this book focuses on the new role of private law in late modernity. It analyses the pressures for changes in this area of law due to the present processes of privatisation and marketisation. The perspective is welfarist: in what ways and to what extent can the welfare state...
Islamic Exceptionalism
How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of the Middle East. Divides...
Beyond the Windswept Dunes
The Story of Maritime Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Beyond the Windswept Dunes takes the reader into a world of maritime adventure as it was experienced by the sailors, passengers, rescue workers, shipping magnates, industrialists, and many other people whose livelihoods revolved around Michigan’s port city of Muskegon. At one time the leading edge...
Outlaw Tales of Missouri
True Stories Of The Show Me State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
True stories of the Show Me state’s most infamous crooks, culprits, and cutthroats.