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Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement

A Comprehensive Treatise

by Guillermo Velarde, Yigal Ronen, Jose M. Martinez-Val ...

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement provides a comprehensive analysis of directly driven inertial confinement fusion. All important aspects of the process are covered, including scientific considerations that support the concept, lasers and particle beams as drivers, target fabrication, analytical and numerical calculations, and materials and engineering considerations. Authors from Australia, ... Read more

$1,050.00 USD

Nuclear Fusion by Inertial Confinement provides a comprehensive analysis of directly driven inertial confinement fusion. All important aspects of the process are covered, including scientific considerations that support the concept, lasers and particle beams as drivers, target fabrication, analytical and numerical calculations, and materials and engineering considerations. Authors from Australia,
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High-Tc Superconductivity

The Excitonic Coulomb Perspective

by Nie Luo, George H. Miley ...

The exciton mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity in copper oxides was initially proposed by Prof. J. Bardeen. His insight is largely shared by another luminary in superconductivity, Prof. V. L. Ginzburg. The main author of the book, Dr. Nie Luo, was motivated by their insights to give a geometrical explanation to the excitonic Coulomb interaction and has developed a unique formalism to ... Read more

$149.95 USD

The exciton mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity in copper oxides was initially proposed by Prof. J. Bardeen. His insight is largely shared by another luminary in superconductivity, Prof. V. L. Ginzburg. The main author of the book, Dr. Nie Luo, was motivated by their insights to give a geometrical explanation to the excitonic Coulomb interaction and has developed a unique formalism to
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Particle and Astroparticle Physics

by Utpal Sarkar ...

From superstring theory to models with extra dimensions to dark matter and dark energy, a range of theoretically stimulating ideas have evolved for physics beyond the standard model. These developments have spawned a new area of physics that centers on the interplay between particle physics and cosmology-astroparticle physics. Providing the necessa ... Read more

$94.99 USD

From superstring theory to models with extra dimensions to dark matter and dark energy, a range of theoretically stimulating ideas have evolved for physics beyond the standard model. These developments have spawned a new area of physics that centers on the interplay between particle physics and cosmology-astroparticle physics. Providing the necessa
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Beyond the Nanoworld

Quarks, Leptons, and Gauge Bosons

by H. G. Dosch ...

Beyond the world of atoms, at scales smaller than the smallest nuclei, a new world comes into view, populated by an array of colorful elementary particles: strange and charmed quarks, muons and neutrinos, gluons and photons, and many others, all interacting in beautifully intricate patterns. Beyond the Nanoworld tells the story of how this new real ... Read more

$91.99 USD

Beyond the world of atoms, at scales smaller than the smallest nuclei, a new world comes into view, populated by an array of colorful elementary particles: strange and charmed quarks, muons and neutrinos, gluons and photons, and many others, all interacting in beautifully intricate patterns. Beyond the Nanoworld tells the story of how this new real
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Scattering Theory

by Harald Friedrich ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book presents a concise and modern coverage of scattering theory. It is motivated by the fact that experimental advances have shifted and broadened the scope of applications where concepts from scattering theory are used, e.g. to the field of ultracold atoms and molecules, which has been experiencing enormous growth in recent years, largely triggered by the successful realization of Bose ... Read more

$53.99 USD

This book presents a concise and modern coverage of scattering theory. It is motivated by the fact that experimental advances have shifted and broadened the scope of applications where concepts from scattering theory are used, e.g. to the field of ultracold atoms and molecules, which has been experiencing enormous growth in recent years, largely triggered by the successful realization of Bose
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Matière

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...

Pour l'action comme pour la connaissance, la « matière » est toujours première. Première dans ses mixtes et ses confusions, lorsqu'elle résiste aux projets de façonnage ; première dans sa présence originelle, dès qu'apparut le projet d'une construction intelligible du monde. Mais, avant même que... ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Pour l'action comme pour la connaissance, la « matière » est toujours première. Première dans ses mixtes et ses confusions, lorsqu'elle résiste aux projets de façonnage ; première dans sa présence originelle, dès qu'apparut le projet d'une construction intelligible du monde. Mais, avant même que...
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Operando Research in Heterogeneous Catalysis

Edited by Joost Frenken, Irene Groot ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book is devoted to the emerging field of techniques for visualizing atomic-scale properties of active catalysts under actual working conditions, i.e. high gas pressures and high temperatures. It explains how to understand these observations in terms of the surface structures and dynamics and their detailed interplay with the gas phase. This provides an important new link between fundamental ... Read more

$170.09 USD

This book is devoted to the emerging field of techniques for visualizing atomic-scale properties of active catalysts under actual working conditions, i.e. high gas pressures and high temperatures. It explains how to understand these observations in terms of the surface structures and dynamics and their detailed interplay with the gas phase. This provides an important new link between fundamental
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Materials Science: A Field of Diverse Industrial Applications

by Arti Srivastava, Mridula Tripathi, Kalpana Awasthi, Subhash Banerjee ...

Materials Science: A Field of Diverse Industrial Applications provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in new materials and their applications across various fields. With ten chapters from reputed experts in materials chemistry, the book covers a wide range of topics including thin-film nanomaterials (including chalcogenide, zinc oxide and barium fluoride thin films), multiferroic ... Read more

$42.49 USD

Materials Science: A Field of Diverse Industrial Applications provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in new materials and their applications across various fields. With ten chapters from reputed experts in materials chemistry, the book covers a wide range of topics including thin-film nanomaterials (including chalcogenide, zinc oxide and barium fluoride thin films), multiferroic
... Read more
Direct Current Fault Protection

Basic Concepts and Technology Advances

Edited by Isik C. Kizilyalli, Z. John Shen, Daniel W. Cunningham ...

Series series Energy (R0)
The lack of effective DC fault protection technology remains a major barrier for the DC paradigm shift. In addressing the key challenges, Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances starts with an introduction to the advantages of DC power systems before moving on to an in-depth review of DC fault protection technologies, including mechanical circuit breaker (MCB), ... Read more

$143.09 USD

The lack of effective DC fault protection technology remains a major barrier for the DC paradigm shift. In addressing the key challenges, Direct Current Fault Protection: Basic Concepts and Technology Advances starts with an introduction to the advantages of DC power systems before moving on to an in-depth review of DC fault protection technologies, including mechanical circuit breaker (MCB),
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Passive and Active Circuits by Example

by Erkan Yuce, Shahram Minaei ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book enables readers to become familiar with passive and active realizations of the impedances and important filter transfer functions (TFs). Firstly, time, s, and frequency domain analysis of the R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits are discussed. Then, active realizations of the impedances and TFs using different active devices are introduced. Readers will benefit from an example-driven approach to ... Read more

$80.99 USD

This book enables readers to become familiar with passive and active realizations of the impedances and important filter transfer functions (TFs). Firstly, time, s, and frequency domain analysis of the R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits are discussed. Then, active realizations of the impedances and TFs using different active devices are introduced. Readers will benefit from an example-driven approach to
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The Physics of Thin Film Optical Spectra

An Introduction

by Olaf Stenzel ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the physics of thin-film optical spectra, bridging the gap between fundamental physics courses, such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics, and the highly specialized literature on the spectroscopy, design, and application of optical thin film coatings. It presumes a basic understanding from these courses and builds upon ... Read more

$89.99 USD

This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the physics of thin-film optical spectra, bridging the gap between fundamental physics courses, such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics, and the highly specialized literature on the spectroscopy, design, and application of optical thin film coatings. It presumes a basic understanding from these courses and builds upon
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Electron Holography for Electromagnetic Materials

by Daisuke Shindo, Zentaro Akase ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book discusses the direct imaging of electric and magnetic fields of various functional materials using electron holography, providing indispensable information for understanding their electromagnetic properties. In order to clearly demonstrate the principles of this cutting-edge technology, easy-to-understand explanations are accompanied by numerous illustrations and figures throughout the ... Read more

$179.09 USD

This book discusses the direct imaging of electric and magnetic fields of various functional materials using electron holography, providing indispensable information for understanding their electromagnetic properties. In order to clearly demonstrate the principles of this cutting-edge technology, easy-to-understand explanations are accompanied by numerous illustrations and figures throughout the
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Critical States at Phase Transitions of Pure Substances

by Beycan İbrahimoğlu, Beycan Jr. İbrahimoğlu ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book re-examines the conventional pressure-temperature phase diagrams of pure substances, taking into account a universally acknowledged, albeit often neglected, state of matter—the plasma phase. It argues that only the temperature component of the endpoint on the gas-liquid equilibrium curve is critical, not the pressure and volume, which themselves are the corresponding components of the ... Read more

$116.09 USD

This book re-examines the conventional pressure-temperature phase diagrams of pure substances, taking into account a universally acknowledged, albeit often neglected, state of matter—the plasma phase. It argues that only the temperature component of the endpoint on the gas-liquid equilibrium curve is critical, not the pressure and volume, which themselves are the corresponding components of the
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Nanotechnology in Modern Medicine

Edited by Sanjeeva Witharana, M. T. Napagoda ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
This book highlights the applications of nanotechnology in modern medicine. Today we are living in a world of fast-changing behavior and lifestyles. Despite health and wellbeing are often pronounced and enforced, the diseases and illnesses are emerging in different forms, at an alarming rate. Protecting the mankind is becoming ever more challenging. In this backdrop, medicine needs new approaches ... Read more

$89.09 USD

This book highlights the applications of nanotechnology in modern medicine. Today we are living in a world of fast-changing behavior and lifestyles. Despite health and wellbeing are often pronounced and enforced, the diseases and illnesses are emerging in different forms, at an alarming rate. Protecting the mankind is becoming ever more challenging. In this backdrop, medicine needs new approaches
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System-Materials Nanoarchitectonics

Edited by Yutaka Wakayama, Katsuhiko Ariga ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book is the first publication to widely introduce the contributions of nanoarchitectonics to the development of functional materials and systems. The book opens up pathways to novel nanotechnology based on bottom-up techniques. In fields of nanotechnology, theoretical and practical limitations are expected in the bottom-up nanofabrication process. Instead, some supramolecular processes for ... Read more

$107.09 USD

This book is the first publication to widely introduce the contributions of nanoarchitectonics to the development of functional materials and systems. The book opens up pathways to novel nanotechnology based on bottom-up techniques. In fields of nanotechnology, theoretical and practical limitations are expected in the bottom-up nanofabrication process. Instead, some supramolecular processes for
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Nonlinear, Tunable and Active Metamaterials

Edited by Ilya V. Shadrivov, Mikhail Lapine, Yuri S. Kivshar ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Metamaterials, artificial electromagnetic media achieved by structuring on the subwave-length-scale were initially suggested for the negative index and superlensing. They became a paradigm for engineering electromagnetic space and controlling propagation of waves. The research agenda is now shifting on achieving tuneable, switchable, nonlinear and sensing functionalities. The time has come to talk ... Read more

$89.09 USD

Metamaterials, artificial electromagnetic media achieved by structuring on the subwave-length-scale were initially suggested for the negative index and superlensing. They became a paradigm for engineering electromagnetic space and controlling propagation of waves. The research agenda is now shifting on achieving tuneable, switchable, nonlinear and sensing functionalities. The time has come to talk
... Read more
Diverse Quasiparticle Properties of Emerging Materials

First-Principles Simulations

Edited by Tran Thi Thu Hanh, Vo Khuong Dien, Ngoc Thanh Thuy Tran, Ching-Hong Ho, Thi Dieu Hien Nguyen, Ming-Fa Lin ...

Diverse Quasiparticle Properties of Emerging Materials: First-Principles Simulations thoroughly explores the rich and unique quasiparticle properties of emergent materials through a VASP-based theoretical framework. Evaluations and analyses are conducted on the crystal symmetries, electronic energy spectra/wave functions, spatial charge densities, van Hove singularities, magnetic moments, spin ... Read more

$82.99 USD

Diverse Quasiparticle Properties of Emerging Materials: First-Principles Simulations thoroughly explores the rich and unique quasiparticle properties of emergent materials through a VASP-based theoretical framework. Evaluations and analyses are conducted on the crystal symmetries, electronic energy spectra/wave functions, spatial charge densities, van Hove singularities, magnetic moments, spin
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Introdução à Física Química

by Simone Malacrida ...

Os seguintes tópicos são apresentados neste livro:processos termodinâmicos e de difusão a nível físico-químicosuperfícies, defeitos e suas características físico-químicasfenômenos físico-químicostecnologias de detecção físico-química ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Os seguintes tópicos são apresentados neste livro:processos termodinâmicos e de difusão a nível físico-químicosuperfícies, defeitos e suas características físico-químicasfenômenos físico-químicostecnologias de detecção físico-química
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Advances in Research and Applications

by Henry Ehrenreich, Frans Spaepen ...

Series Book 50 - Solid State Physics
Solid State Physics, Volume 50 continues the series' tradition of excellence by focusing on the optical and electronic properties and applications of semiconductors. All of the topics in this volume are at thecutting-edge of research in the semiconductor field and will be of great interest to the scientific community. ... Read more

$239.39 USD

Solid State Physics, Volume 50 continues the series' tradition of excellence by focusing on the optical and electronic properties and applications of semiconductors. All of the topics in this volume are at thecutting-edge of research in the semiconductor field and will be of great interest to the scientific community.
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Theoretische Festkörperphysik Band 1

Grundlagen: Phononen und Elektronen in Kristallen

by Gerd Czycholl ...

Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
Die "Theoretische Festkörperphysik" gibt in zwei Bänden eine Einführung in Methoden, Inhalte und Ergebnisse der modernen Festkörperphysik. Der vorliegende erste Band baut auf dem Grundkurs Theoretische Physik auf, d.h. vorausgesetzt werden Kenntnisse in klassischer Mechanik, Elektrodynamik und insbesondere Quantenmechanik und Statistischer Physik. Der für die Behandlung von Vielteilchen-Effekten ... Read more

$40.49 USD

Die "Theoretische Festkörperphysik" gibt in zwei Bänden eine Einführung in Methoden, Inhalte und Ergebnisse der modernen Festkörperphysik. Der vorliegende erste Band baut auf dem Grundkurs Theoretische Physik auf, d.h. vorausgesetzt werden Kenntnisse in klassischer Mechanik, Elektrodynamik und insbesondere Quantenmechanik und Statistischer Physik. Der für die Behandlung von Vielteilchen-Effekten
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Carbon Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

Edited by Mei Zhang, Rajesh R. Naik, Liming Dai ...

Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
This book covers a wide range of topics relating to carbon nanomaterials, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in advanced biomedical devices and systems. As they possess unique and attractive chemical, physical, optical, and even magnetic properties for various applications, considerable effort has been made to employ carbon nanomaterials (e.g., fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to carbon nanomaterials, from synthesis and functionalization to applications in advanced biomedical devices and systems. As they possess unique and attractive chemical, physical, optical, and even magnetic properties for various applications, considerable effort has been made to employ carbon nanomaterials (e.g., fullerenes, carbon nanotubes,
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Device and Materials Modeling in PEM Fuel Cells

Edited by Stephen J. Paddison, Keith S. Promislow ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Computational studies on fuel cell-related issues are increasingly common. These studies range from engineering level models of fuel cell systems and stacks to molecular level, electronic structure calculations on the behavior of membranes and catalysts, and everything in between. This volume explores this range. It is appropriate to ask what, if anything, does this work tell us that we cannot ... Read more

$215.09 USD

Computational studies on fuel cell-related issues are increasingly common. These studies range from engineering level models of fuel cell systems and stacks to molecular level, electronic structure calculations on the behavior of membranes and catalysts, and everything in between. This volume explores this range. It is appropriate to ask what, if anything, does this work tell us that we cannot
... Read more
Quantum Oscillations and Charge-Neutral Fermions in Topological Kondo Insulator YbB₁₂

by Yuki Sato ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Electronic state of every solid is basically classified into two categories according to its electrical responses: insulator or metal. A textbook of modern solid state physics explains that shape of a Fermi surface plays a key role in most physical properties in metals. One of the well-established experimental methods to detect a Fermi surface is measurement of quantum oscillations that is a ... Read more

$152.09 USD

Electronic state of every solid is basically classified into two categories according to its electrical responses: insulator or metal. A textbook of modern solid state physics explains that shape of a Fermi surface plays a key role in most physical properties in metals. One of the well-established experimental methods to detect a Fermi surface is measurement of quantum oscillations that is a
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Applications of the Gauge/Gravity Duality

by Jonas Probst ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Many open questions in Theoretical Physics pertain to strongly interacting quantum systems such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions or the strange-metal phase observed in many high-temperature superconductors. These systems are notoriously difficult to study using traditional methods such as perturbation theory, but the gauge/gravity duality offers a successful ... Read more

$98.09 USD

Many open questions in Theoretical Physics pertain to strongly interacting quantum systems such as the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions or the strange-metal phase observed in many high-temperature superconductors. These systems are notoriously difficult to study using traditional methods such as perturbation theory, but the gauge/gravity duality offers a successful
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