Download or read book Crystals That Flow written by Timothy J. Sluckin and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection is divided into sections, each of which is prefaced by a brief commentary referring to the historic-scientific context of the time.
Download or read book Photonic Crystals written by John D. Joannopoulos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1995, Photonic Crystals has remained the definitive text for both undergraduates and researchers on photonic band-gap materials and their use in controlling the propagation of light. This newly expanded and revised edition covers the latest developments in the field, providing the most up-to-date, concise, and comprehensive book available on these novel materials and their applications. Starting from Maxwell's equations and Fourier analysis, the authors develop the theoretical tools of photonics using principles of linear algebra and symmetry, emphasizing analogies with traditional solid-state physics and quantum theory. They then investigate the unique phenomena that take place within photonic crystals at defect sites and surfaces, from one to three dimensions. This new edition includes entirely new chapters describing important hybrid structures that use band gaps or periodicity only in some directions: periodic waveguides, photonic-crystal slabs, and photonic-crystal fibers. The authors demonstrate how the capabilities of photonic crystals to localize light can be put to work in devices such as filters and splitters. A new appendix provides an overview of computational methods for electromagnetism. Existing chapters have been considerably updated and expanded to include many new three-dimensional photonic crystals, an extensive tutorial on device design using temporal coupled-mode theory, discussions of diffraction and refraction at crystal interfaces, and more. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Photonic Crystals is an indispensable resource for students and researchers. Extensively revised and expanded Features improved graphics throughout Includes new chapters on photonic-crystal fibers and combined index-and band-gap-guiding Provides an introduction to coupled-mode theory as a powerful tool for device design Covers many new topics, including omnidirectional reflection, anomalous refraction and diffraction, computational photonics, and much more.
Download or read book Crystals That Flow written by Timothy J. Sluckin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection is divided into sections, each of which is prefaced by a brief commentary referring to the historic-scientific context of the time.
Download or read book Liquid Crystals written by Esther Leslie and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is responsible for today’s abundance of flat screens—on televisions, computers, and mobile devices—most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous acronym, LCD, with little thought as to exactly what it is: liquid crystal. In this book, Esther Leslie enlightens us, offering an accessible and fascinating look at—not a substance, not a technology—but a wholly different phase of matter. As she explains, liquid crystal is a curious material phase that organizes a substance’s molecules in a crystalline form yet allows them to move fluidly like water. Observed since the nineteenth century, this phase has been a deep curiosity to science and, in more recent times, the key to a new era of media technology. In between that time, as Leslie shows, it has figured in cultural forms from Romantic landscape painting to snow globes, from mountaineering to eco-disasters, and from touchscreen devices to DNA. Expertly written but accessible, Liquid Crystals recounts the unheralded but hugely significant emergence of this unique form of matter.
Download or read book Crystal Energy written by Kyle Russell and published by Kyle Russell. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you curious to find out more about crystals? Is the info you've seen both confusing or overwhelming? Do you wish there was an easier way to comprehend and work with stones? Look no further! With Kyle Russell's Crystal Energy book, you'll enjoy seeing: 177 large-format images of top-quality specimens A sumptuous blend of both written and visual narratives 244 stones organized according to the Crystal Concentrics 10 Energy Zone system Applications for real life circumstances, from stress and illness to love and prosperity
Download or read book Awakening Your Crystals written by Sharon L. McAllister and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color guide to programming crystals and harnessing their full potential • Explains how to program crystals and gemstones with specific healing intentions as well as how to cleanse and charge your crystals and prepare your own energy field • Provides detailed instructions for working with 8 key crystals, as well as healing and programming guidance for more than 60 well-known and important crystals • Includes vibrant photographs to convey each crystal’s individual powers In this vibrantly illustrated crystal guide, experienced holistic therapist and crystal-healing teacher Sharon McAllister offers an introduction to programming crystals and gemstones to harness their full potential. She explains how crystal programming combines the powerful instrument of intention setting with the healing energies of stones. She details how to cleanse and charge your crystals and prepare your own energy field before programming and provides a collection of intention-setting statements and programming recipes for personal healing as well as therapeutic use. Unveiling the light that each crystal radiates vibrationally and spiritually, Sharon reveals how each crystal is a living being that can be awakened to emanate its purest and strongest energy in alignment with specific healing purposes. She explains the dormant state of stones when they are still inside the earth, their activated state when extracted by humans, and their ignited state, when they are called into direct service with a programmed focus, which leads them to unfold their full healing potential. Focusing on 8 key crystals, including rose quartz, amethyst, and citrine, Sharon shows how these 8 stones can combine to form a powerful toolkit with a wide range of healing applications. She provides an in-depth chapter on each of the 8 key crystals, offering deep insight into their energies and healing properties. She also covers more than 60 additional crystals along with guidance on their healing uses and programming potential. Taking your crystal healing experience to a higher level, this guide shows how each crystal has its own life plan just like human beings and when a crystal enters your life it is never by coincidence.
Download or read book The Crystal Fix written by Juliette Thornbury and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a beautiful and empowering home environment with healing crystals. Infused with the energy of Mother Nature, every crystal has a unique set of healing properties which, armed with a little knowledge, you can unlock and harness to improve all aspects of life. From tackling insomnia to relieving anxiety and fostering creativity, crystals can energise, calm and inspire. Luminosity Crystals founder, Juliette Thornbury, provides all the information you need to source, care for and display your crystals – as well as tips wearing them and taking stones on-the-go. Whether you want to choose the right cluster for your coffee table, or to better understand the powerful potential of these stones, this essential guide will enable you to bring a little more of their transformative energy into your everyday life.
Download or read book Handbook of Liquid Crystals written by Hans Kelker and published by Wiley-VCH. This book was released on 1980 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crystals written by Ichiro Sunagawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do crystals nucleate and grow? Why and how do crystals form such a wide variety of morphologies, from polyhedral to dendritic and spherulitic forms? These are questions that have been posed since the seventeenth century, and are still of vital importance today both for modern technology, and to understand the Earth's interior and the formation of minerals by living organisms. In this book, Ichiro Sunagawa sets out clearly the atomic processes behind crystal growth, and describes case studies of complex systems from diamond, calcite and pyrite, to crystals formed through biomineralization, such as the aragonite of shells, and apatite of teeth. Essential reading for advanced graduates and researchers in mineralogy and materials science.
Download or read book Growth of Crystals written by E.I. Givargizov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth of Crystals, Volume 21 presents a survey, with detailed analysis, of the scientific and technological approaches, and results obtained, by leading Russian crystal growth specialists from the late 1990's to date. The volume contains 16 reviewed chapters on various aspects of crystal and crystalline film growth from various phases (vapour, solution, liquid and solid). Both fundamental aspects, e.g. growth kinetics and mechanisms, and applied aspects, e.g. preparation of technically important materials in single-crystalline forms, are covered. A large portion of the volume is devoted to film growth, including film growth from eutectic melt, from amorphous solid state, kinetics of lateral epitaxy and film growth on specially structured substrates. An important chapter in this section covers heteroepitaxy of non-isovalent A3B5 semiconductor compounds, which have important applications in the field of photonics. The volume also includes a detailed analysis of the structural aspects of a broad range of laser crystals, information that is invaluable for successfully growing perfect, laser-effective, single crystals.
Download or read book Liquid Crystals written by Sergey V. Pasechnik and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering numerous practical applications as yet not covered in any single source of information, this monograph discusses the importance of viscous and elastic properties for applications in both display and non-display technologies. The very well-known authors are major players in this field of research and pay special attention here to the use of liquid crystals in fiber optic devices as applied in telecommunication circuits.
Download or read book Nematic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystals written by Patrick Oswald and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid crystals allow us to perform experiments that provide insight into fundamental problems of modern physics, such as phase transitions, frustration, elasticity, hydrodynamics, defects, growth phenomena, and optics (linear and non linear). This excellent volume meets the need for an up-to-date text on liquid crystals.Nematic and Cholesteric Liq
Download or read book Deformation and Flow of Solids Verformung und Fliessen des Festk rpers written by Richard Grammel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auf einer Sitzung des :Biiros der Internationalen Union fiir Theore tische und Angewandte Mechanik (IUTAM) in :Briissel am 21. Septem ber 1953 wurde beschlossen, ein Kolloquium iiber Festkorpermechanik (vorlaufiger Titel) fiir die letzte Septemberwoche 1955 zu pla.nen, und zwa.r in Madrid, entsprechend einer EinIadung, welche die Vertreter der zugehorigen spanischen Organisation Instituto Naciona.l de Tecnica Aeronautica "Esteban Terradas" (INTA), die Herren A. NUNEz und A. PEREZ-MARiN personIich iiberbrachten. Das vom :Biiro der IUTAM hierfiir eingesetzte Wissenschaftliche Komitee bestand aus R. GRAMMEL als Vorsitzendem und den Herren TH. VON K. ARMiN, M. Roy und G.I. TAYLOR, das spanische Organisa tions-Komitee aus den Herren A. NUNEz und A. PEREZ-MARiN samt einem Stab technischer und administrativer Mitarbeiter. In drei :Beratungen des Wissenschaftlichen Komitees (:Briissel, 27. Juli 1954; Farnborough, to. September 1954; Paris, 23. Mai 1955) wurde das Programm des Kolloquiums mit dem endgiiltigen Titel "Verformung und FlieBen des Festkorpers" festgelegt und dann in den Tagen vom 26. bis 30. September 1955 gemaB dem Plan von Seite IX verwirklicht. Jedes der drei Themen (Versetzungen und Plastizitat; Nichtlineare Elastizitat; Viskoelastizita.t und Relaxation) und insbesondere jede Sitzung wurde durch einen AIIgemeinen V ortrag eingeleitet. Die Titel aller V ortrage gibt das Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite XI und XII an. Die Vortrage wurden am 26., 27. und 29. September im Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid gehalten, am 28. Sep tember in Torrej6n de Ardoz, verbunden mit einer :Besichtigung der Laboratorien des INTA daselbst.
Download or read book Crystals written by A. E. H. Tutton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crystals" by A. E. H. Tutton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Crystal Wands written by Ewald Kliegel and published by Findhorn Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by easy-to-understand descriptions and illustrations, this compendium demonstrates the effects and uses of crystal wands as a major therapeutic tool for well-being and good health. From simple-to-perform massages to specialized reflexology uses, the featured techniques depict the multitude of possibilities for using crystal wands in tandem with massage, including specialized programs for beauty, vitality, purification, and relaxation. Different types of crystals are described in detail, along with methods for cleansing and testing them. By focusing on producing stronger, faster, more targeted, and longer-lasting effects, this book will revolutionize the approach to massage for all alternative-health professionals, whether interested in crystal healing, reflexology, acupressure, shiatsu, or chakra balance.
Download or read book Theory and Applications of Liquid Crystals written by Jerald L. Ericksen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications AMORPHOUS POLYMERS AND NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS is in part the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1984-85 IMA program on CONTINUUM PHYSICS AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS We are grateful to the Scientific Committee: Haim Brezis Constantine Dafermos Jerry Eri cksen David Kinderlehrer for planning and implementing an exciting and stimulating year-long program. We espe cially thank the Program Organizers, Jerry Ericksen, David Kinderlehrer, Stephen Prager and Matthew Tirrell for organizing a workshop which brought together scientists and mathematicians in a variety of areas for a fruitful exchange of ideas. George R. Sell Hans Weinberger Preface The diversity of experimental phenomena and the range of applications of liquid crystals present timely and challenging questions for experimentalists, mechanists, and mathematicians. The scope of this workshop was to bring together research workers and practitioners in these areas from laboratories, industry, and universities to explore common issues. The contents of this volume vary from descriptions of experimental phenomena, of which our understanding is insufficient, to questions of a mathematical nature and of efficient computation.
Download or read book Handbook of Liquid Crystals Volume 2A written by Dietrich Demus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Liquid Crystals is a unique compendium of knowledge on all aspects of liquid crystals. In over 2000 pages the Handbook provides detailed information on the basic principles of both low- and high-molecular weight materials, as well as the synthesis, characterization, modification, and applications (such as in computer displays or as structural materials) of all types of liquid crystals. The five editors of the Handbook are internationally renowned experts from both industry and academia and have drawn together over 70 leading figures in the field as authors. The four volumes of the Handbook are designed both to be used together or as stand-alone reference sources. Some users will require the whole set, others will be best served with one or two of the volumes. Volume 1 deals with the basic physical and chemical principles of liquid crystals, including structure-property relationships, nomenclature, phase behavior, characterization methods, and general synthesis and application strategies. As such this volume provides an excellent introduction to the field and a powerful learning and teaching tool for graduate students and above. Volumes 2A and 2B concentrate on low-molecular weight materials, for example those typically used in display technology. A high quality survey of the literature is provided along with full details of molecular design strategies, phase characterization and control, and applications development. These volumes are therefore by far the most detailed reference sources on these industrially very important materials, ideally suited for professionals in the field. Volume 3 concentrates on high-molecular weight, or polymeric, liquid crystals, some of which are found in structural applications and others occur as natural products of living systems. A high-quality literature survey is complemented by full detail of the synthesis, processing, analysis, and applications of all important materials classes. This volume is the most comprehensive reference source on these materials, and is therefore ideally suited for professionals in the field.
