Solid State category: 612 books
Electronic Structure Methods for Complex Materials
The orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Density functional theory (DFT) has blossomed in the past few decades into a powerful tool that is used by experimentalists and theoreticians alike. This book highlights the extensive contributions that the DFT-based OLCAO method has made to progress in this field, and it demonstrates its competitiveness...
Density Functionals
Thermochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research. The scope of coverage is all areas of chemical science including the interfaces with related disciplines such as biology, medicine and materials science. The goal of each...
by Akira Satoh
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The main objective of the book is to highlight the modeling of magnetic particles with different shapes and magnetic properties, to provide graduate students and young researchers information on the theoretical aspects and actual techniques for the treatment of magnetic particles in particle-based...
by Thomas D Swinburne
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
This thesis is concerned with establishing a rigorous, modern theory of the stochastic and dissipative forces on crystal defects, which remain poorly understood despite their importance in any temperature dependent micro-structural process such as the ductile to brittle transition or irradiation...
Photons in Fock Space and Beyond
(In 3 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The three-volume major reference “Photons in Fock Space and Beyond” undertakes a new mathematical and conceptual foundation of the theory of light emphasizing mesoscopic radiation systems. The quantum optical notions are generalized beyond Fock representations where the richness of an infinite...
Hyperpolarized and Inert Gas MRI
From Technology to Application in Research and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Hyperpolarized and Inert Gas MRI: Theory and Applications in Research and Medicine is the first comprehensive volume published on HP gas MRI. Since the 1990’s, when HP gas MRI was invented by Dr. Albert and his colleagues, the HP gas MRI field has grown dramatically. The technique has proven to...
Fundamentals of the Physics of Solids
Volume 3 - Normal, Broken-Symmetry, and Correlated Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
This book is the third of a three-volume series written by the same author. It aims to deliver a comprehensive and self-contained account of the fundamentals of the physics of solids. In the presentation of the properties and experimentally observed phenomena together with the basic concepts and theoretical...
Magnetic Perovskites
Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Magnetic perovskite with multi functional properties (magneto-resistive, magneto-dielectric, multiferroics, spintronics, etc.) have attracted increasing attention due to their possible applications towards storage materials and intriguing fundamental Physics. Despite the numerous investigations on...
by G Barbero, L R Evangelista
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
This book was written to enable physicists and engineers to learn, within a single course, some topics in variational calculus, theory of elasticity, molecular models, and surface properties of nematic materials. It prepares graduate students for studies that require a simple knowledge in the physics...
Quantum Statistical Mechanics
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium theory from first principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book establishes the foundations of non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics in order to support students and academics in developing and building their understanding. The formal theory is derived from first principles by mathematical analysis, with concrete physical interpretations and...
Quantum Criticality in Condensed Matter
Phenomena, Materials and Ideas in Theory and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators. The contributing lecturers are outstanding researchers, and experts in various fields of physics, in particular in condensed matter, quantum phase transitions and quantum...
Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter
Statistical and Quantum Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Modern electrodynamics in different media is a wide branch of electrodynamics which combines the exact theory of electromagnetic fields in the presence of electric charges and currents with statistical description of these fields in gases, plasmas, liquids and solids; dielectrics, conductors and superconductors....
by Carl L. Yaws
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Covering more than 7,800 organic and inorganic chemicals and hydrocarbons, Transport Properties of Chemical and Hydrocarbons, Second Edition is an essential volume for any chemist or chemical engineer. Spanning gases, liquids, and solids, the book covers all critical properties (including viscosity,...
by Subba Ramaiah Kodigala
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Cu(In1-xGax)Se2 Based Thin Film Solar Cells provides valuable contents about the fabrication and characterization of chalcopyrite Cu(In1-xGax)Se2 based thin film solar cells and modules. The growth of chalcopyrite Cu(In1-xGax)(S1-ySey)2 absorbers, buffers, window layers, antireflection coatings, and...