Solid State Physics category: 599 books
by Nils Andersen, Klaus Bartschat
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
This book covers polarization, alignment, and orientation effects in atomic collisions induced by electron, heavy particle, or photon impact. The first part of the book presents introductory chapters on light and particle polarization, experimental and computational methods, and the density matrix...
by Malte Hildebrandt, Robert Robson, Ronald White
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive and cohesive overview of transport processes associated with all kinds of charged particles, including electrons, ions, positrons, and muons, in both gases and condensed matter. The emphasis is on fundamental physics, linking experiment, theory and applications. In...
Physics of Solar Cells
From Basic Principles to Advanced Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The new edition of this highly regarded textbook provides a detailed overview of the most important characterization techniques for solar cells and a discussion of their advantages and disadvantages.
It describes in detail all aspects of solar cell function, the physics behind every single step, as...
Vibronic Interactions and the Jahn-Teller Effect
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
The concepts of the Jahn-Teller effect and vibronic coupling are being applied to more and more systems in both chemistry and physics. Aspects of structural chemistry such as the distortion of the nuclear framework to a lower-symmetry conformation have received an increasing attention, as well as...
Flexoelectricity in Liquid Crystals
Theory, Experiments and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The book intends to give a state-of-the-art overview of flexoelectricity, a linear physical coupling between mechanical (orientational) deformations and electric polarization, which is specific to systems with orientational order, such as liquid crystals.
Chapters written by experts in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The purpose of this book is to convey to the worldwide scientific community the rapid and enthusiastic progress of state-of-the-art quantum chemistry. Quantum chemistry continues to grow with remarkable success particularly due to rapid progress in supercomputers. The usefulness of quantum chemistry...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Electron backscatter diffraction is a very powerful and relatively new materials characterization technique aimed at the determination of crystallographic texture, grain boundary character distributions, lattice strain, phase identification, and much more. The purpose of this book is to provide the...
Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitectures
Designing Next-Generation Devices
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Devices built from three-dimensional nanoarchitectures offer a number of advantages over those based on thin-film technology, such as larger surface area to enhance the sensitivity of sensors, to collect more sunlight to improve the efficiency of solar cells, and to supply higher density emitters...
Symmetry, Spin Dynamics and the Properties of Nanostructures
Lecture Notes of the 11th International School on Theoretical Physics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
This book is a collection of lecture notes which were presented by invited speakers at the Eleventh School on Theoretical Physics "Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter SSPCM 2014" in Rzeszów (Poland) in September 2014. The main challenge for the lecturers was the objective...
Nanophenomena at Surfaces
Fundamentals of Exotic Condensed Matter Properties
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
This book presents the state of the art in nanoscale surface physics. It outlines contemporary trends in the field covering a wide range of topical areas: atomic structure of surfaces and interfaces, molecular films and polymer adsorption, biologically inspired nanophysics, surface design and pattern...
by Mário J. de Oliveira
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena. The applications include several areas of condensed matter physics and include also a chapter on thermochemistry....
Atom-Probe Tomography
The Local Electrode Atom Probe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Nanocharacterization by Atom Probe Tomography is a practical guide for researchers interested atomic level characterization of materials with atom probe tomography.
Readers will find descriptions of the atom probe instrument and atom probe tomography technique, field ionization, field evaporation...
Application of Braid Groups in 2D Hall System Physics
Composite Fermion Structure
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In the present treatise progress in topological approach to Hall system physics is reported, including recent achievements in graphene. The homotopy methods of braid groups turn out to be of particular convenience in order to grasp peculiarity of 2D charged systems upon magnetic field resulting in...
Statistical Mechanics of Magnetic Excitations
From Spin Waves to Stripes and Checkerboards
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The aim of this advanced textbook is to provide the reader with a comprehensive explanation of the ground state configurations, the spin wave excitations and the equilibrium properties of spin lattices described by the Ising–Heisenberg Hamiltonians in the presence of short (exchange) and long range...