Modern Crystallography IV

Modern Crystallography IV
Author: L.A. Shuvalov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783642818394

Modern Crystallography IV is devoted to a systematic and up- to-date description of fundamental physical properties of solid and liquid crystals. These include elastic and mechanical, dielectric and ferroelectric, magnetic and optical properties, transport phenomena and spectroscopy. An important feature of the treatment is its use of the crystallographic approach, an introduction to which is given in the opening chapter of the book. The topics are treated at a level understandable to students who have two years of university physics. Researchers and engineers working on practical applications should also find the book useful, as should specialists in other fields who wish to broaden their knowledge of crystallography and materials science. The book is written by a group of leading scientists from the Institute of Crystallography of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Modern Crystallography IV

Modern Crystallography IV
Author: L.A. Shuvalov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642818382

Modern Crystallography IV is devoted to a systematic and up- to-date description of fundamental physical properties of solid and liquid crystals. These include elastic and mechanical, dielectric and ferroelectric, magnetic and optical properties, transport phenomena and spectroscopy. An important feature of the treatment is its use of the crystallographic approach, an introduction to which is given in the opening chapter of the book. The topics are treated at a level understandable to students who have two years of university physics. Researchers and engineers working on practical applications should also find the book useful, as should specialists in other fields who wish to broaden their knowledge of crystallography and materials science. The book is written by a group of leading scientists from the Institute of Crystallography of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Physical Properties of Quasicrystals

Physical Properties of Quasicrystals
Author: Zbigniew M. Stadnik
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642584349

Quasicrystals are a new form of the solid state which differ from the other two known forms, crystalline and amorphous, by possesing a new type of long-range translational order, called quasiperiodicty, and a noncrystallographic orientational order. This book provides an up-to-date description of the unusual physical properties of these new materials. Emphasis is placed on the experimental results, which are compared with those of the corresponding crystalline and amorphous systems and discussed in terms of modern theoretical models. Written by leading authorities in the field, the book will be of great use both to experienced workers in the field and to uninitiated graduate students.

Modern Crystallography 2

Modern Crystallography 2
Author: Boris K. Vainshtein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642572545

The four-volume treatment Modern Crystallography presents an encyclopaedic exposition of problems concerning the structure of crystals, their growth and their properties. Structure of Crystals deals with crystal structures in inorganic and organic compounds, polymers, liquid crystals, biological crystals and macromolecules.

Electron Correlation and Magnetism in Narrow-Band Systems

Electron Correlation and Magnetism in Narrow-Band Systems
Author: T. Moriya
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642816398

Speech by Toyosaburo Taniguchi Welcome my friends to the Third International Symposium, Division on the Theory of Condensed Matter, of the Taniguchi Foundation. The need is now greater than ever for Japan to consider how to strengthen and foster international understanding between nations, peoples and societies, and how to contribute towards the establishment of peace and prosperity in the world. For more than twenty years, I have been supporting a symposium on mathe matics in which distinguished scholars from allover the world have engaged in free discussions. In this symposium, all the participants live together in community style. I have heard from members of some of these study groups that this type of setup has helped to strengthen their ties and relationships with their colleagues on a personal basis. What developed in the mathematics group led me to reorganize and strengthen the Taniguchi Foundation only a few years ago through additional funding. In order to effectively translate the objectives of the Foundation into action with the funds available, it becomes necessary to select those fields which are not necessarily in the limelight of popular interest, which means those fields which, I am afraid, are low in funding. I would rather choose from modest unimpressive academic fields than for the Foundation, projects those that stand out in gaudy, gorgeous popular acclaim.

Magnetic Bubble Technology

Magnetic Bubble Technology
Author: A. H. Eschenfelder
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642816479

The popularity of the First Edition of this book has been very gratifying. It confirms that there is a genuine need for a text covering the magnetic bubble technology. We are pleased that the readers have found that this book satisfies that need. It has been used as a text for courses in both universities and industry, and as a reference manual by workers active in the field. To meet the need for more copies of the book it seemed preferable to publish a second edition rather than merely a second printing. There has been some significant progress, even in the short time since the initial printing, and we wanted to include that. At the same time we would like to provide the new copies at the lowest possible cost so that they are more easily obtained by students. For this reason the new edition is in soft cover and the recent progress has been described in a final chapter rather than incorporated into the original chapters. This eliminates the expense of resetting and repaging the original text. At the same time up-to-date references have been added and typographical errors have been corrected in the original chapters. It is our hope that this edition will be useful to those with an interest in the fascinating field of magnetic bubbles.

Fundamentals of Crystals

Fundamentals of Crystals
Author: Boris K. Vainshtein
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662029758

From the reviews: "[...] an excellent reference book. I have no doubt it will become a much-thumbed resource for students and researchers in mineralogy and crystallography." Geological Magazine

Symmetries in Physics

Symmetries in Physics
Author: Wolfgang Ludwig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642799779

Symmetries in Physics presents the fundamental theories of symmetry, together with many examples of applications taken from several different branches of physics. Emphasis is placed on the theory of group representations and on the powerful method of projection operators. The excercises are intended to stimulate readers to apply the techniques demonstrated in the text.

Introduction to Solid-State Theory

Introduction to Solid-State Theory
Author: Otfried Madelung
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642618855

Introduction to Solid-State Theory is a textbook for graduate students of physics and materials science. It also provides the theoretical background needed by physicists doing research in pure solid-state physics and its applications to electrical engineering. The fundamentals of solid-state theory are based on a description by delocalized and localized states and - within the concept of delocalized states - by elementary excitations. The development of solid-state theory within the last ten years has shown that by a systematic introduction of these concepts, large parts of the theory can be described in a unified way. This form of description gives a "pictorial" formulation of many elementary processes in solids, which facilitates their understanding.