"Version: 20200301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of thermoacoustic tomography -- 1.1. Thermoacoustic effect -- 1.2. Image reconstruction methods -- 1.3. Instrumentation2. Quantitative thermoacoustic tomography -- 2.1. Recovery of tissue conductivity -- 2.2. Simultaneous recovery of absorbed microwave energy density and acoustic velocity -- 2.3. Simultane…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Wearable sensors for physiological parameter measurements : physics, characteristics, design and applications -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Types of wearable sensors -- 1.3. Wearable sensors for animal health -- 1.4. Working principles of wearable sensors -- 1.5. Issues in the fabrication of wearable sensors -- 1.6. Fab…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. State of the art and applications of near infrared spectroscopy in food composition and quality -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Spectroscopic techniques -- 1.3. Multivariate data analysis -- 1.4. Applications -- 1.5. Summary2. Food authenticity and traceability: molecular spectroscopy approaches -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to sensors / Bhagwati Charan Patel, G.R. Sinha and Naveen Goel -- 2. Classification and characteristics of sensors / P. Vyas and K. Thakur -- 3. Optical sensors : overview, characteristics and applications / Kusumanjali Deshmukh, Naveen Goel and Bhagwati Charan Patel -- 4. Recent applications of chalcogeni…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Definition -- 1.2. Sensitivity -- 1.3. Selectivity -- 1.4. Stability2. Properties of gases -- 2.1. Microscopic properties -- 2.2. Macroscopic properties -- 2.3. Transport properties3. Direct transducers for gas sensing -- 3.1. Thermal conductivity detectors -- 3.2. Paramagnetic sensors -- 3.3. Pell…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The fundamentals -- 1.1. Introduction--what is an image sensor and what does it do? -- 1.2. Charge generation -- 1.3. Charge collection -- 1.4. Charge transfer -- 1.5. Charge conversion -- 1.6. pn junction -- 1.7. MOS capacitor -- 1.8. MOS transistor -- 1.9. Source follower2. CMOS pixel architectures -- 2.1. History an…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Optical physics for laser materials processing -- 1.1. Electromagnetic theory of light propagation -- 1.2. Paraxial approximation -- 1.3. The eikonal equation--material polarization approach -- 1.4. The eikonal equation--Fermat's principle approach -- 1.5. Propagation of electromagnetic waves through matter. Lorentz os…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Fundamentals of cryogenics / Beth Evans, Tom Bradshaw and John Vandore -- 2. What is cryogenics?--UK perspective and brief history / Beth Evans, Tom Bradshaw and John Vandore -- 3. Cryostat design / Robert Done, Bryan Shaughnessy, Tom Bradshaw, Graham Machin and Beth Evans -- 4. Closed cycle refrigerators / Tom Bradsha…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to general health and safety -- 1.1. The beginnings of cryogenics -- 1.2. Cultural perceptions of cryogenics technology -- 1.3. Health and safety principles -- 1.4. The importance of safety when using cryogenic technology -- 1.5. Safety management systems -- 1.6. United Kingdom health and safety legislatio…
"Version: 202203"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Microstructural features -- 1.3. Microstructure-property relationships -- 1.4. A framework for microstructure evolutionpart I. Thermodynamics and phase diagrams. 2. Thermodynamic quantities -- 2.1. Enthalpy -- 2.2. Entropy -- 2.3. Gibb's free energy -- 2.4. Phase diagrams for pure …