Material Science category: 3562 books
by Agham B. Posadas, Alexander A. Demkov
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
This book describes the basic physical principles of the oxide/semiconductor epitaxy and offers a view of the current state of the field. It shows how this technology enables large-scale integration of oxide electronic and photonic devices and describes possible hybrid semiconductor/oxide systems....
by Pilar Gonzalez Ruiz, Kristin De Meyer, Ann Witvrouw
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Polycrystalline SiGe has emerged as a promising MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) structural material since it provides the desired mechanical properties at lower temperatures compared to poly-Si, allowing the direct post-processing on top of CMOS. This CMOS-MEMS monolithic integration can lead...
Metallic Biomaterials
New Directions and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
With its comprehensive coverage of recent progress in metallic biomaterials, this reference focuses on emerging materials and new biofunctions for promising applications.
The text is systematically structured, with the information organized according to different material systems, and concentrates...
Flows in Polymers, Reinforced Polymers and Composites
A Multi-Scale Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
This book gives a detailed and practical introduction to complex flows of polymers and reinforced polymers as well as the flow of simple fluids in complex microstructures.
Over the last decades, an increasing number of functional and structural parts, made so far with metals, has been progressively...
Tubular Structures XI
11th International Symposium and IIW International Conference on Tubular Structures
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This topical book contains the latest scientific and engineering developments in the field of tubular steel structures, as presented at the "11th International Symposium and IIW International Conference on Tubular Structures". The International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS) has...
Polypropylene Nanofibers
Melt Electrospinning Versus Meltblowing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book provides a comparison between melt electrospinning and meltblowing as techniques for the production of polypropylene nanofibers. The author compares the morphological, structural, chemical and mechanical characteristics of the different produced fibers. Moreover, the degree of thermal degradation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Graphene has been hailed as a rising star in photonics and optoelectronics. The wonderful optical properties of graphene make possible the multiple functions of signal emission, transmission, modulation, and detection to be realized in one material. This book compiles and details cutting-edge research...
Biaxial Fatigue of Metals
The Present Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Problems of fatigue under multiaxial fatigue loads have been addressed in a very large number of research publications. The present publication is primarily a survey of biaxial fatigue under constant amplitude loading on metal specimens. It starts with the physical understanding of the fatigue phenomenon...
Introduction to Semiconductor Lasers for Optical Communications
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
This textbook provides a thorough and accessible treatment of semiconductor lasers from a design and engineering perspective. It includes both the physics of devices as well as the engineering, designing and testing of practical lasers. The material is presented clearly with many examples provided....
by Yilei Li
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This thesis focuses on the study of the optical response of new atomically thin two-dimensional crystals, principally the family of transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS2. One central theme of the thesis is the precise treatment of the linear and second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities...
by Kwai Hei Li
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book describes the design and fabrication of novel nanostructures in III-nitride material systems. It introduces an inexpensive and ultra-efficient nanopatterning method – nanosphere lithography (NSL) – used to develop diversely functional nanostructures, including clover-shaped photonic...
Engineering Models in High-Speed Penetration Mechanics and Their Applications
(A Two-Volume Set)Volume 1: Engineering ModelsVolume 2: Applied Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
This two-volume, 1100 pages, 38 chapters book is a significantly expanded, revised and updated version of the monograph by the authors published in 2013 (Ben-Dor, G, Dubinsky, A, Elperin, T, 'High Speed Penetration Dynamics: Engineering Models and Methods,' Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company)....
Integration of Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Thin Films
Concepts and Applications for Microsystems
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This book contains four parts. The first one is dedicated to concepts. It starts with the definitions and examples of what is piezo-pyro and ferroelectricity by considering the symmetry of the material. Thereafter, these properties are described within the framework of Thermodynamics. The second part...
Nanostructured Lead, Cadmium, and Silver Sulfides
Structure, Nonstoichiometry and Properties
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2017
This book presents and analyzes the influence of small size particles of lead, cadmium and silver sulfide on the properties of nonstoichiometric semiconductors. Important nonstoichiometry aspects in nanostructures are discussed, such as the distribution of sulfur atoms in nanofilms, a non-periodic...