"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Lithium niobate thin films : potential applications, synthesis methods, structure, and properties -- 1.1. The structure and main properties of bulk lithium niobate -- 1.2. Applications of thin LiNbO3 films -- 1.3. Fabrication methods of thin LiNbO3 films -- 1.4. Fundamentals and critical parameters of the RFMS method a…
"Version: 20250801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Schr?odinger equation -- 1.2. Indistinguishable particles and the ground state -- 1.3. Solving quantum problems with Monte Carlo2. Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) -- 2.1. Spin in expectation values -- 2.2. The multielectron wave function -- 2.3. The Jastrow factor3. Principles of wave function op…
"Version: 20240801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Classical nature of light -- 2.1. Electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Polarization -- 2.3. Preparatory experimental explorations -- 2.4. C1 : Investigating polarization of light through Jones calculus -- 2.5. C2 : Fourier analysis and peanut plots -- 2.6. C3 : Interference and erasure of which-way informat…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Artificial intelligence history from the abacus through science fiction movies and artificial intelligence winter to future expectations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Previously published history of artificial intelligence -- 1.3. Era of mechanical operations leading to computers -- 1.4. Innovations and discoveries from…
"Version: 20251001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Adedapo O. Adeola and Rafik Naccache -- 2. Classifications and chemistry of carbon nanomaterials / Akeem Adeyemi Oladipo, Junior Kabanza Kalala, Abimbola O. Aleshinloye, Favour Ezinne Ogulewe, Hoda Ansari, Aliyu Ahmed Ibrahim and Mustafa Gazi -- 3. Scalable synthesis and applications of carbon dots in su…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Slip system and dislocations -- 1.2. Multiscale modeling of crystal plasticity and the meso-scale gap -- 1.3. CDD and why this book?2. What are dislocation densities? -- 2.1. Defects and their densities -- 2.2. Fine grained dislocation density -- 2.3. Coarse grained dislocation density--extensive d…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to magnetic nanomaterials -- 1.1. History of metallic nanoparticles -- 1.2. Applications of magnetic nanoparticles in cancer theranostics2. Synthesis of MNPs and their physicochemical characterization -- 2.1. Various methods for MNP synthesis -- 2.2. Physicochemical characterization of MNPs -- 2.3. Thermod…
"Version: 20240301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Physics as global human enterprise for understanding nature. 2. Physics bridging the infinities / Freya Blekman, Angela Bracco, Nelson Christensen, Emmanuel Dormy, Patrick Eggenberger, Claus Kiefer, Franck L?epine, Mairi Sakellariadou, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Jochen Schieck and Claudia-Elisabeth …
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Seeing Saturn and the discoveries of rings -- 3. Why are there moons and rings?4. A menagerie of moons -- 4.1. The inner mid-sized icy moons -- 4.2. Impacts and craters -- 4.3. Synchronous rotation -- 4.4. Icy satellite tectonics -- 4.5. Interactions with the magnetosphere -- 4.6. The curious case of…
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Activity-to-do : review of mathematics -- 1.2. Scientific method -- 1.3. Units -- 1.4. A few important concepts -- 1.5. Review of vectors -- 1.6. Speed versus velocity -- 1.7. Graphical representation of motion2. Sound, music and noise -- 2.1. What to know about sound, music o…