"Version: 20190301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Considerations on meteoroid entry physics. part I. Meteoroid and meteorite science. 2. The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk impactor -- 2.1. Trajectory -- 2.2. Structure -- 2.3. Origin -- 2.4. Implications3. Properties of meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations -- 3.1. Radio meteor theory …
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Classical mechanics -- 1.2. Rise of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Eugene Wigner -- 1.4. Modern devices and simulation -- 1.5. Our approach2. Approaches to quantum transport -- 2.1. Modes and the Landauer formula -- 2.2. The scattering matrix approach -- 2.3. The density matrix -- 2.4. Green's functions…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. The generalized tight-binding model -- 2.1. Monolayer graphene -- 2.2. Tetra-layer graphene -- 2.3. Tinene -- 2.4. Monolayer and bilayer phosphorenes -- 2.5. MoS2 -- 2.6. A suitable, reliable and wide-range model -- 2.7. Numerical calculations3. Graphene -- 3.1. Theoretical results -- 3.2. Experiment…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Part I Hindsight. 1. It's obvious, now -- Case study 1 : Maitland 1722 small pox vaccine -- Case study 2 : Power 1912 antibiotic resistance -- Part II Foresight2. Foundations. Case study 3 : Anderson 1972 More is different -- Case study 4 : Friston 2013 Life as we know it -- Case study 5 : Bowman 1978 The "before picture"…
"Version: 20201201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction to visible light communications -- 1.2. State-of-the-art in visible light communications -- 1.3. Summary2. Technological enablers -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Principles of light generation and absorption -- 2.3. Organic semiconductors -- 2.4. Summary3. High-speed circuits and channel …
"Version: 202108"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Ahmed Issa and Dermot Brabazon -- 2. Laser systems, types and beam properties / Rasheedat M. Mahamood and Esther T. Akinlabi -- 3. Physical principles of laser-material interaction regimes for laser machining processes / Ahmed Issa, Furat I. Hussein Al-Najjar, Ahmed Al-Hamaoy and Bassam G. Rasheed -- 4. Ef…
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. The dawn of Doppler measurements -- 1.2. Early work on stellar radial velocity measurements -- 1.3. Toward precise stellar radial velocity measurements -- 1.4. The early hints of exoplanets -- 1.5. The 51 Peg revolution -- 1.6. The Doppler method2. The instruments for Doppler measurements -- 2.1. E…
"Version: 20190601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. The basics of laser safety. 1. Why are laser accidents still happening? -- 1.1. Bad behavior and no negative consequences -- 1.2. Possible future : virtual reality -- 1.3. On the job training/mentoring (a topic you will find mentioned several times in this text, but learning is through repetition) -- 1.4. Recommen…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Singularity -- 1.2. Singularities in science and engineering -- 1.3. Acoustic vortex -- 1.4. Singularities in optics -- 1.5. Amplitude, phase and polarization -- 1.6. Brief historical account of optical phase singularities2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. …
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The growth and structure of epitaxial graphene nanoribbons -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Epitaxial ribbon production -- 1.3. Summary and future outlook2. Bottom-up approach for the synthesis of graphene nanoribbons -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Solution-mediated synthesis graphene nanoribbons -- 2.3. Surface-assisted syn…