Materials/States of Matter

Ultrafast science has long been limited to the investigation of molecular processes. Over the past 10 years investigation of ultrafast processes ha...

This book is written to introduce experimental magnetism in a comprehensive manner to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students p...

This book provides a semi-quantitative approach to understanding and applications of charge carriers in inorganic and organic opto-electronic and p...

Liquid crystal is a curious phase of matter. It has the ability at once to flow, like water, and to refract, like ice. It was closely observed, if ...

Plasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dialectric interfaces at the nanomet...

Introducing the Generalised Molecular Crystal Model, as a more realistic model for the study of the small polaron transport in disordered materials...

This volume comprises 8 articles written by lecturers of 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics and their collaborators. The contributin...

In Applied Gas Dynamics, Professor Ethirajan Rathakrishnan introduces the high-tech science of gas dynamics, from a definition of the subject to th...

Metamaterials is a young subject born in the 21st century. It is concerned with artificial materials which can have electrical and magnetic propert...

The book provides an overview of the author's work devoted to experimental study of hopping conductivity, which includes substantial contributions,...

One of the major experimental difficulties in studying materials at extreme temperatures is unwanted contamination of the sample through contact wi...

This book collects lecture courses and seminars given at the Les Houches Summer School 2010 on Quantum Theory: From Small to Large Scales. Fundamen...

What kind of information on the electrons' organisation in solids is yielded by measuring their thermoelectric response? Fundamentals of Thermoelec...

By identifying unifying concepts across solid state physics, this text covers theory in an accessible way to provide graduate students with an intu...

This is the third volume in a four-part series on Fluid Dynamics: PART 1: Classical Fluid Dynamics PART 2: Asymptotic Problems of Fluid Dynamic...

An up-to-date comprehensive text useful for graduate students and academic researchers in the field of energy transfers in fluid flows. The initial...