"Version: 20170901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Introduction : Crystal engineering -- 1. Holding things together -- 1.1. Covalent bonds -- 1.2. Ionic bonds -- 1.3. Comparison of ionic and covalent bonding -- 1.4. Non-bonding interactions -- 1.5. Hydrogen bonding -- 1.6. Hybrid…
"Version: 20161101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Foreword -- 1. Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Macroscopic Maxwell equations -- 1.2. Symmetry properties -- 1.3. Harmonic scattering by a bounded obstacle -- 1.4. Covariant formulation -- 1.5. Maxwell equations using forms2. Bloch waves -- 2.1. T…
"Version: 20180301"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Hyperbolic metamaterial geometries and basic properties -- 2. Super-resolution imaging using hyperbolic metamaterials : the hyperlens -- 3. Consequences of singular photonic density of states : radiative decay engineering, thermal hyper-…
"Version: 20181101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Quasicrystallography. 1. Crystalline structure -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Atomic theory -- 1.3. The structure of crystals -- 1.4. Crystals and symmetry2. X-ray diffraction techniques -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. X-ray diffraction …
"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: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Ekhard K.H. Salje and Guillaume F. Nataf -- 2. Ferroelastic phase transitions--well-known results and new perspectives / Wilfried Schranz, Andreas Tr?oster and Michael A. Carpenter -- 3. Symmetry aspects of ferroelastic domains and domain walls / Jirka Hlinka and Petr Ondrejkovi?ec -- 4. Response of ferr…
"Version: 20141201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Author biography -- Liquid crystals -- Experiments with liquid crystals -- The liquid crystal display -- Accompanying concepts -- Elementary teaching module -- Further reading."The aim of the textbook is to in…
"Version: 20190901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. History -- 2. Mesophases of matter -- 2.1. Solid versus liquid -- 2.2. One-dimensional ordering (the smectic phase) -- 2.3. Positional or orientational order in anisotropic molecules3. Classifications of liquid crystals -- 3.1. Anisotrop…
"Version: 20151201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Electronic states in self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots -- 1.1. Simple image of a self-assembled semiconductor quantum dot -- 1.2. Quantum dot bound states -- 1.3. Continuum states -- 1.4. Coulombic interactions -- 1.5.…
"Version: 202112"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamical systems -- 2.1. Canonical mechanics -- 2.2. Weakly-chaotic dynamics -- 2.3. Quantum mechanics3. Phase space lattices -- 3.1. Lattice symmetry in phase space -- 3.2. Quasinumber band theory -- 3.3. Noncommutative geometry4. Many-body physics in phase space -- 4.1. Classical many-body dynamics …