Dynamical properties in nanostructured and low-dimensional materials /

---

"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Types of excitations or waves -- 1.2. Survey of different nanostructures -- 1.3. Experimental techniques for dynamic properties -- 1.4. Theoretical methods for dynamic properties -- 1.5. Photonic band gaps in periodic structures2. Phonons -- 2.1. One-dimensional models of lattice dynamics for films -- 2.2. Higher-dimensional lattice dynamics for films -- 2.3. Elastic waves for single surfaces and films -- 2.4. Experimental studies -- 2.5. Phonons in multilayers and superlattices -- 2.6. Phononic crystals3. Exchange-dominated magnetic excitations -- 3.1. Regimes of magnetization dynamics -- 3.2. Heisenberg ferromagnetic films -- 3.3. Heisenberg antiferromagnetic films -- 3.4. One- and two-dimensional magnetic systems -- 3.5. More types of exchange interactions -- 3.6. Magnetic superlattices and magnonic crystals4. Dipole-exchange magnetic excitations -- 4.1. Dipole-dominated spin waves in films -- 4.2. Dipole-dominated spin waves in wires and tubes -- 4.3. Dipole-exchange waves in films -- 4.4. Magnetic nanowires and stripes -- 4.5. Magnetic disks and rings -- 4.6. Magnetic superlattices -- 4.7. Magnonic crystals5. Electronic and plasmonic excitations -- 5.1. Electronic surface states -- 5.2. Graphene sheets and ribbons -- 5.3. Bulk dielectric functions -- 5.4. Plasmonics in two dimensions -- 5.5. Bulk-slab model for superlattice plasmons6. Polaritons -- 6.1. Phonon-polaritons -- 6.2. Plasmon-polaritons -- 6.3. Graphene plasmonics -- 6.4. Magnon-polaritons -- 6.5. Other types of polaritons7. Mixed excitations -- 7.1. Magnetoelastic waves -- 7.2. Piezoelectric waves -- 7.3. Ferroelectric materials -- 7.4. Multiferroic materials8. Nonlinear dynamics for nonmagnetic excitations -- 8.1. Nonlinearities in optics -- 8.2. Nonlinearities for phonons -- 8.3. Introduction to solitons -- 8.4. Some applications to low-dimensional systems -- 8.5. Gap solitons in nonlinear optics9. Nonlinear dynamics for magnetic excitations -- 9.1. Fundamentals of magnetic nonlinearities -- 9.2. Instability of magnons under microwave pumping -- 9.3. Magnetic solitons -- 9.4. Other applications to magnetic systems -- 9.5. Hybrid magnons in cavities.The dramatic advances that started two decades ago in the growth, fabrication and characterisation of low-dimensional materials have continued, with important developments in the seven years since the first edition of this book.Physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers (in universities, research labs, industry).Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Michael Cottam is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2022).

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Publisher

: .,

Collation

1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780750339032

Classification

621.381028/4

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

Second edition.

Subject(s)

Nanostructured materials.
Condensed matter.

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Michael G. Cottam.

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment