Download or read book Directions in Condensed Matter Physics written by Geoffrey Grinstein and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects several in-depth articles giving lucid discussions on new developments in statistical and condensed matter physics. Many, though not all, contributors had been in touch with the late S-K Ma. Written by some of the world's experts and originators of new ideas in the field, this book is a must for all researchers in theoretical physics. Most of the articles should be accessible to diligent graduate students and experienced readers will gain from the wealth of materials contained herein.
Download or read book Directions In Condensed Matter Physics Memorial Volume In Honor Of Shang keng Ma written by Geoffrey Grinstein and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1986-08-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects several in-depth articles giving lucid discussions on new developments in statistical and condensed matter physics. Many, though not all, contributors had been in touch with the late S-K Ma. Written by some of the world's experts and originators of new ideas in the field, this book is a must for all researchers in theoretical physics. Most of the articles should be accessible to diligent graduate students and experienced readers will gain from the wealth of materials contained herein.
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Download or read book Quasicrystals The State Of The Art 2nd Edition written by David Divincenzo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quasicrystals: The State of the Art has proven to be a useful introduction to quasicrystals for mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists, and students. The original intent was for the book to be a progress report on recent developments in the field. However, the authors took care to adopt a broad, pedagogical approach focusing on points of lasting value. Many subtle and beautiful aspects of quasicrystals are explained in this book (and nowhere else) in a way that is useful for both the expert and the student.In this second edition, some authors have appended short notes updating their essays. Two new chapters have been added. Chapter 16, by Goldman and Thiel, reviews the experimental progress since the first edition (1991) in making quasicrystals, determining their structure, and finding applications. In Chapter 17, Steinhardt discusses the quasi-unit cell picture, a promising, new approach for describing the structure and growth of quasicrystals in terms of a single, repeating, overlapping cluster of atoms.
Download or read book Real Time Visual Effects for Game Programming written by Chang-Hun Kim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the latest visual effects (VFX) techniques that can be applied to game programming. The usefulness of the physicality-based VFX techniques, such as water, fire, smoke, and wind, has been proven through active involvement and utilization in movies and images. However, they have yet to be extensively applied in the game industry, due to the high technical barriers. Readers of this book can learn not only the theories about the latest VFX techniques, but also the methodology of game programming, step by step. The practical VFX processing techniques introduced in this book will provide very helpful information to game programmers. Due to the lack of instructional books about VFX-related game programming, the demand for knowledge regarding these high-tech VFXs might be very high.
Download or read book Insulating and Semiconducting Glasses written by P Boolchand and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-05-24 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews principal topical issues on the basic science of glasses and amorphous thin-films. It also includes select applications of these materials in current and evolving technologies, including optical recording, imaging, solar cells, battery technology and field-emission displays. The glass systems of interest include oxides, chalcogenides and chalcohalides of the group III, IV and V elements, as well as amorphous thin-films of the group IV elements. Glass formation in covalent melts can be understood in terms of new ideas based on constraint counting algorithms which have led to the fragile-strong classification and to the concept of rigidity transition. Vibrational excitations and characterization of the atomic scale structure at various length scales are addressed by an array of experimental probes, including X-ray and neutron scattering, Brillouin scattering, Raman scattering and infrared reflectance, solid state nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear quadrupole resonance and Mössbauer spectroscopy. Chapters are also devoted to the physics of electronic transport in amorphous materials, to the physics of tunneling states in crystalline and amorphous solids, and the physics of light-induced effects in glasses. In addition, a chapter is devoted to the rapidly evolving field of numerical simulations of disordered systems by computer modeling. Each of these topics is discussed by experts who have made significant contributions to the field. The book can serve as a text for a graduate course in glass science. For an established researcher, it provides, in a concise form, a large body of experimental data on the basic materials research aspect of these fascinating materials. Contents:Glass Formation and the Nature of the Glass Transition (C A Angell)Dual Nature of Molecular Glass Transitions (J C Phillips)The Generic Phenomenology of Glass Formation (I Gutzow)The Structure and Rigidity of Network Glasses (M F Thorpe et al.)Glass Structure by Scattering Methods and Spectroscopy:X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction (A C Wright)Mössbauer Spectroscopy (P Boolchand)Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (NQR) Studies of Glass Structure (P J Bray)Solid State NMR as a Structural Tool in Glass Science (H Eckert)Vibrational Excitations in Glasses:Inelastic Neutron Scattering (R L Cappelletti)Rigidity Transition and Lamb-Mössbauer Factors (P Boolchand)Raman Scattering (K Murase)Low Frequency Vibrational Excitations in Glasses by Brillouin and Raman Scattering (C Levelut)Tunneling Systems in Crystalline and Amorphous Solids (S Hunklinger & C Enss)Electronic Transport in Disordered Semiconductors (H Overhoff & P Thomas)Molecular Dynamic Simulations of Network Glasses (D A Drabold)Light-Induced Structural Changes in Glasses (H Fritzsche)Chalcohalide Glasses (J Lucas)Applications of Non-Crystalline Materials:Applications of Glasses, Amorphous and Disordered Materials (S Ovshinsky)Amorphous Chalcogenide Photoconductors in Imaging Technologies (S O Kasap & J A Rowlands)Real Time Optical Recording on Thin Films of Amorphous Semiconductors (M Mitkova) Diamond Based Field Emission Displays (J E Jaskie) Readership: Physicists, materials scientists, ceramists, chemists, electrical engineers, and mathematicians working with numerical and computational methods who have an interest in glass science. Keywords:Glass Transition;Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy;Raman Scattering;Mossbauer Spectroscopy;Molecular Dynamic Simulations;Optical Recording;Brillouin Scattering;Intermediate Phases;Modulated Differential Scanning Calorimetry;Neutron Scattering
Download or read book Thin Films Heteroepitaxial Systems written by W K Liu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heteroepitaxial films are commonplace among today's electronic and photonic devices. The realization of new and better devices relies on the refinement of epitaxial techniques and improved understanding of the physics underlying epitaxial growth. This book provides an up-to-date report on a wide range of materials systems. The first half reviews metallic and dielectric thin films, including chapters on metals, rare earths, metal-oxide layers, fluorides, and high-Tc superconductors. The second half covers semiconductor systems, reviewing developments in group-IV, arsenide, phosphide, antimonide, nitride, II–VI and IV–VI heteroepitaxy. Topics important to several systems are covered in chapters on atomic processes, ordering and growth dynamics. Contents: Atomic Interactions and Surface Processes in Heteroepitaxy (J A Venables)Ordering in III–V Semiconductor Alloys (G B Stringfellow)Transition Metal Thin Film Epitaxy (G R Harp)The Growth and Structure of Epitaxial Metal-Oxide/Metal Interfaces (C A Ventrice, Jr. & H Geisler)Heteroepitaxy of Disparate Materials: From Chemisorption to Epitaxy in CaF2/Si(111) (M A Olmstead)Recent Progress in High Tc Superconducting Heterostructures (J Z Wu & S C Tidrow)Strain Accommodation and Relief in GeSi/Si Heteroepitaxy (R Hull & E A Stach)Heteroepitaxial Growth Modes and Morphologies on GaAs Surfaces (B A Joyce & D D Vvedensky)Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Sb-Based Semiconductors (B R Bennett & B V Shanabrook)P-Based Semiconductor Multilayers (M Razeghi)MBE Growth of Wide-Gap Refractory Nitride Epitaxial Films (R J Hauenstein)Epitaxial Growth, Microstructural Characterizations, and Optical Physics of Wide Bandgap II–VI Heterostructures (J Han et al.)Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Narrowgap IV–VI Semiconductors (G Springholz et al.) Readership: Graduate students and professionals who work with or want to work with heteroepitaxial systems. Keywords:Thin Films;Heteroepitaxy;Heterostructures;Heterointerface;III-V Semiconductors;Sb-Based Semiconductors;P-Based Semiconductors;Wide-Gap Refractory Nitrides;Wide-Gap II-VI Semiconductors;Narrow-Gap IV-VI Semiconductors;Transition Metal Thin Films;Epitaxial Metal-Oxide Interface;Epitaxial Fluorides on Si;High Tc Superconductor Heterostructures;Gesi/Si Heteroepitaxy;Strain Relief Mechanisms;Surface Processes;Heterepitaxial Growth Modes;Semiconductor Alloys;Alloy Ordering;Insulators
Download or read book Quantum Theory of Many Body Systems written by Alexandre Zagoskin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for graduates in physics and related fields, this is a self-contained treatment of the physics of many-body systems from the point of view of condensed matter. The approach, quite traditionally, covers all the important diagram techniques for normal and superconducting systems, including the zero-temperature perturbation theory, and the Matsubara, Keldysh, and Nambu-Gorov formalisms. The aim is not to be exhaustive, but to present just enough detail to enable students to follow the current research literature or to apply the techniques to new problems. Many of the examples are drawn from mesoscopic physics, which deals with systems small enough that quantum coherence is maintained throughout the volume, and which therefore provides an ideal testing ground for many-body theories. '
Download or read book Directions in Chaos written by Bai-lin Hao and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1987 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of Directions in Chaos consists of the contributions made to the Beijing Summer School on Chaotic Phenomena in Nonlinear Systems held in August 1987.
Download or read book Electronic Processes at Solid Surfaces written by E Ilisca and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-10-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of surface physics has now grown to become an exciting interdisciplinary field of research with important practical applications. The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour of some recent advances, key research issues and approaches in electronic processes at solid surfaces. Apart from a few structural studies, selected topics have been chosen to illustrate the dynamical response of the solid surface to external probes, with the main emphasis on electron transfer phenomena. Contents:Electron Transfer at Surfaces:Electron Transfer at Surfaces (B I Lundqvist)Canonical Surface Reaction Processes Driven by Electronic Friction (D M Newns et al.)Dynamics of Spin and Charge Metastable He∗ (1s2s) Atom at Metal Surfaces (K Makoshi & A Yoshimori)Bound States, Resonances and Theory of Non-Adiabatic Charge Transfer (A Nourtier)Many-Electron Theory of Charge-Transfer Processes in Particle-Surface Scattering (S G Davison et al.)Structural and Electron Studies of Surfaces:Imaging and Transfer of Single Atoms in the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (N D Lang)Dynamics and Dynamical Behavior of Metal Surfaces (T T Tsong)Embedded Cluster Models of Electronic Structure of Oxide Surfaces (D E Ellis & J Guo)X-Ray Probing of Long and Short Range Order at Surfaces in Relation with Their Electronic Properties (D Chandesris & M Sauvage-Simkin)Reactions and Interactions at Surfaces:Acid-Base Interactions at Oxide Surfaces (J Goniakowski & C Noguera)Reactions of Gas Molecules on Silicon Surfaces Studied by High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (N Takagi & M Nishijima)Modeling of Carbon Formation on a Nickel Catalyst (F Ruette & F M Poveda)Hyperfine Measure of Surface Electron Configurations (E Ilisca & M Rami) Readership: Students and researchers in physics and chemistry of solid surfaces. keywords:
Download or read book The Superconducting State in Magnetic Fields written by Carlos A R Sà de Melo and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an exciting collection of short review articles written by leading international experts on the superconducting state in magnetic fields, a rapidly developing area. The philosophy of the book is to emphasize the importance of having experimental and theoretical works side by side. Every effort has been made to match each experimental article with a corresponding theoretical article. The selection of materials includes special topics, new effects and new trends concerning superconductors in low and high magnetic fields. The special topics and new trends include quantum and classical melting of the vortex lattice, new vortex lattice symmetries, vortex core states, nonlinear Meissner effect, symmetry of the order parameter in high-temperature superconductors, and superconductors in high magnetic fields. The book is targeted at a broad audience, including graduate students, postdocs and other researchers active or interested in this field. Contents:Magnetic Flux in Interfaces in YBCO (K A Moler et al.)The Symmetry of the Superconducting Order Parameter and Low-Field Magnetic Properties in High-Temperature Superconductors (M Sigrist & T M Rice)The Vortex Phase Transition in YBa2Cu3O7-δ (J A Fendrich et al.)Numerical Simulations of Magnetic Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors (S Ryu & D Stroud)Quantum Melting and Quantum Creep of Vortex Matter in Thin Films of a-Nb3Ge (M H Theunissen et al.)Quantum Liquid of Vortices in Superconductors at T = 0 (G Blatter & B Ivlev)Vortex Lattice Structure in LuNi2B2C (Y De Wilde et al.)Vortex Lattice Transitions (V G Kogan et al.)High Frequency Electrodynamics of Cuprate Superconductors in the Vortex State (J Orenstein et al.)De Haas-Van Alphen Effect in the Vortex State of Type-II Superconductors (T J B M Janssen & M Springford)Quantized Landau Levels in Superconductors (S Dukan & Z Tešanovic)Vortex Lattice Imaging and Spectroscopic Studies of Flux Lines by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (Ch Renner et al.)Vortex Structure in Clean Type II Superconductors with s-wave and d-wave Pair Symmetries (K Machida et al.)Superconductivity in Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecular Conductors (TMTSF)2X (I J Lee & M J Naughton)Singlet Versus Triplet Superconductivity in Quasi-One-Dimensional Systems: Magnetic Field Effects (C A R Sá de Melo) Readership: Graduate students, postdocs and researchers on superconductors in magnetic fields. Keywords:
Download or read book Defect Processes Induced by Electronic Excitation in Insulators written by Noriaki Itoh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/0445
Download or read book Ionic Solids at High Temperatures written by A. M. Stoneham and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1989 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most studies of solids at high temperatures have concentrated on rare gases or metals. However, in the last few years, the special properties of ionic solids at high temperatures have become increasingly important, with applications to geophysics, ceramic processing, nuclear fuels, solid-state electrolytes, and so on. This volume includes a review by W Hayes and M Hutchings on some of the recent experiments, notably comprehensive work on crystals with fluorite structure, including uranium dioxide. Such experiments can be both difficult to perform and are equally difficult to interpret. There have also been striking developments in the quantitative atomistic theory of defect properties and transport. All these are studied from different aspects in the following three reviews: on anharmonic lattice dynamics using the shell model (R Ball), on the prediction of defect free energies and transport (J Harding) and on dynamical simulations of superionic conductors (M Gillan).
Download or read book Morphological Organization in Epitaxial Growth and Removal written by Zhenyu Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999-01-29 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical assessment of the current status and the likely future directions of thin-film growth, an area of exceptional technological importance. Its emphasis is on descriptions of the atomic-scale mechanisms controlling the dynamics and thermodynamics of the morphological evolution of the growth front of thin films in diverse systems of fundamental and technological significance. The book covers most of the original and important conceptual developments made in the 1990s. The articles, written by leading experts, are arranged in five major categories — the theoretical basis, semiconductor-on-semiconductor growth, metal-on-metal growth, metal-on-semiconductor growth, and removal as the inverse process of growth. This book, the only one of its kind in this decade, will prove to be an indispensable reference source for active researchers, those having peripheral interest, and graduate students starting out in the field. Contents:Theoretical Basis:Study of Strain and Temperature Dependence of Metal Epitaxy (C Ratsch et al.)Atomistic Simulation Methods (A F Voter)Submonolayer Nucleation and Growth of 2D Islands and Multilayer Mound Formation During Homoepitaxy (J W Evans & M C Bartelt)Equilibrium Shape of a Coherent Epitaxial Cluster (C Duport et al.)Dynamic Scaling in Epitaxial Growth (S Das Sarma)Scaling and Crossovers in Models for Thin Film Growth (A Pimpinelli et al.)Quantum Effect in Metal Overlayers on Semiconductor Substrates (J-H Cho et al.)Semiconductor-on-Semiconductor Growth:Self-Organized Island Arrays in SiGe/Si Multilayers (C Teichert et al.)Morphological Evolution of Strained Semiconductor Films (D E Jesson)Large Scale Surface Evolution During MBE Growth: Mounding (C Orme et al.)Growth Structures of Silicon Homoepitaxy by Chemical Vapor Deposition (H Rauscher & R J Behm)Metal-on-Metal Growth:Two-Dimensional Island Shapes (T Michely & G Comsa)Ramified Growth in Metal on Metal Epitaxy (R Q Hwang)Morphology and Energy Barriers in Homoepitaxial Growth and Coarsening: A Case Study for Cu(100) (J F Wendelken et al.)The Concept of Two Mobilities for Growth Manipulation (G Rosenfeld et al.)Tailoring Epitaxial Growth of Low-Dimensional Magnetic Heterostructures by Means of Surfactants (J J de Miguel et al.)Cluster Diffusion, Coalescence and Coarsening in Metal(100) Homoepitaxial Systems (P A Thiel & J W Evans)Metal-on-Semiconductor Growth:Ag on Si-Surfaces: From Insulator to Metal (M H von Hoegen et al.)Metal on Semiconductor Growth at Low Temperatures (M C Tringides)Growing Atomically Flat Metal Films on Semiconductor Substrates (C-K Shih)Removal:Spontaneous Halogen Etching of Si (J H Weaver & C M Aldao)Surface Morphology of Ion Bombarded Si(001) and Ge(001) Surfaces (H J W Zandvliet & I S T Tsong) Readership: Researchers and graduate students in solid state physics, materials science and engineering. Keywords:
Download or read book Spin Glasses And Biology written by Daniel L Stein and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1992-08-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an introduction to the application of techniques developed for the study of disordered systems to problems which arise in biology. Topics presented include neural networks, adaptation and evolution, maturation of the immune response, and protein dynamics and folding. This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in statistical and condensed matter physics, glasses and spin glasses, and biophysics.
Download or read book Conjugated Polymeric Materials Opportunities in Electronics Optoelectronics and Molecular Electronics written by J.L. Brédas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Conjugated Polymers held at the University of Mons, Belgium, during the first week of September 1989. The Workshop was attended by about fifty scientists representing most of the leading research groups within NATO countries, that have contributed to the development of conjugated polymeric materials. The program was focused on applications related to electrical conductivity and nonlinear optics. The attendance was well balanced with a blend of researchers from academic, industrial, and government labs, and including synthetic chemists, physical chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and theoreticians. The Workshop provided an especially timely opportunity to discuss the important progress that has taken place in the field of Conjugated Polymers in the late eighties as well as the enormous potential that lies in front of us. Among the recent significant developments in the field, we can cite for instance: (i) The discovery of novel synthetic routes affording conjugated polymers -that are much better characterized, especially through control of the molecular weight; - that can be processed from solution or the melt; the early promise that conducting polymcrs would constitute materials combining the electrical conductivities of metals with the mechanical properties of plastics is now being realized; -that can reach remarkably high conductivities.
