"Version: 20250101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Supplementary reading -- 1.2. Aims and philosophy -- 1.3. Prerequisites -- 1.4. Conventions and notation2. Symmetries (discrete and continuous) -- 2.1. Beta decay -- 2.2. Parity violation in weak interactions -- 2.3. Parity violation in [beta]-decay -- 2.4. V-A formulation of the weak currents -- 2…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to vacuum electron devices -- 1.2. Traveling-wave tubes -- 1.3. Slow-wave structures -- 1.4. Brief review of existing SWSs -- 1.5. Planar SWSs -- 1.6. Microfabrication of SWSs and challenges -- 1.7. Methods of analysis and simulation for SWSs -- 1.8. Outline of the book2. Microstrip me…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and t…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Film formation of [phi]-conjugated polymers -- 1.2. Current status and prospects of [phi]-conjugated polymer devices -- 1.3. Fabrication conditions and performance of [phi]-conjugated polymer devices -- 1.4. Material investigation in [phi]-conjugated polymer devices -- 1.5. Importance of molecular …
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Some recent advances -- 1.3. Motivations -- 1.4. Features and potential advantages of metalenses2. Basics of metalens optics -- 2.1. Optics of metasurfaces -- 2.2. Metalens phase profile -- 2.3. Relationship with the classical lens -- 2.4. Meta-atoms -- 2.5. Lens equat…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Classical theory of light. 2. Electromagnetic field and light-matter interaction -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations, wave equation, and the Helmholtz equation -- 2.2. The propagator for the Helmholtz equation -- 2.3. Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates : Bessel beams -- 2.4. Paraxial approxim…
"Version: 20230801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Understanding the inside of the Sun. 1. A glimpse of the solar interior -- 2. The sun as a star -- 3. The role of radiation inside stars -- 4. The nature of star stuff -- 5. Discovering the source of solar energy6. Properties of the matter inside stars -- 6.1. The equation of state -- 6.2. Opacity calculations -- …
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Linear theory and applications in AFM. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillations, linear theory, and applications in AFM -- 1.2. Oscillations in general2. Model description -- 2.1. Continuous and point-mass model descriptions of the cantilever-tip system -- 2.2. Simple harmonic motion -- 2.3. Damped oscillations3. Ener…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Paper-based biosensors : overview from past to future / Narlawar Sagar Shrikrishna, Riya Sharma and Sonu Gandhi -- 2. Paper-based biosensor as an early diagnostic system in medical sciences / Tanusha Pathak, Rachna Parashar, Pragati Raghuwanshi and Aushtosh Singh Raghubanshi -- 3. Fabrication of paper-based immunochrom…
"Version: 20250601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. General relativity essentials -- 1.1. Equivalence principle -- 1.2. Relativistic mechanics -- 1.3. Differential geometry primer -- 1.4. Curvature tensor -- 1.5. The stress-energy-momentum tensor -- 1.6. Einstein's equation -- 1.7. Killing vectors and maximally symmetric spaces -- 1.8. The Hilbert-Einstein action -- 1.9…