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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Ellipsometry is the method of choice to determine the properties of surfaces and thin films. It provides comprehensive and sensitive characterization in contactless and non-invasive measurements. This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of ellipsometric investigations of organic films and surfaces,...
by Robert Blinc
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The field of ferroelectricity has greatly expanded and changed in recent times. In addition to classical organic and inorganic ferroelectrics, new fields and materials, unknown or inactive 20 to 40 years ago, have appeared. They are important for both basic science and applications, and show technological...
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...
Molecular Spintronics
From Organic Semiconductors to Self-Assembled Monolayers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This thesis targets molecular or organic spintronics and more particularly the spin polarization tailoring opportunities that arise from the ferromagnetic metal/molecule hybridization at interfaces: the new concept of spinterface. Molecular or organic spintronics is an emerging research field at 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...
Pulsed Laser Ablation of Solids
Basics, Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
The book introduces ‘the state of the art' of pulsed laser ablation and its applications. It is based on recent theoretical and experimental studies. The book reaches from the basics to advanced topics of pulsed laser ablation. Theoretical and experimental fundamental phenomena involved in pulsed...
The Fracture of Good Order
Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending anti-death penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions. In The Fracture of Good Order, Jason Bivins examines...
America on the Cusp of God’S Grace
The Biblical Connection to the Stars and Stripes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
America on the Cusp of Gods Grace issues a rousing call for true, Bible-believing patriots to save America by reverting back to the august principles of our Founding Fathers. With simple, straightforward language, Dennis G. Hurst digs deep into the ideas and beliefs upon which the Republic was founded...
Religion and Reaction
The Secular Political Challenge to the Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
While the Religious Right has received considerable scholarly attention and media coverage in recent years, the story of the growing number of Secular Americans—those who identify themselves as atheists, agnostics, or as not having any religious ties—has yet to be told. In the first book devoted...
Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society
Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Since the end of state repression against religion, two major processes have taken place in the formerly socialist countries: historically dominant churches strive to reassert their position in society, while new religious groups and ideas from various parts of the world are proliferating. This generates...
by Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region.
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely...