"Version: 20170101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 17-18).Introduction -- Background -- Current directions -- Outlook.The emerging field of complex light - the study and application of custom light beams with tailored intensity, polarization or phase - is a focal point for fundamental breakthroughs in optical science. As this review will show, those advances in fun…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonics -- 1.2. Integrated photonics -- 1.3. Silicon photonics -- 1.4. Silicon-on-insulator technology in this book2. Waveguides -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations for linear, passive materials -- 2.2. Dielectric slab waveguides -- 2.3. General properties of modes in dielectric waveguides -- 2.4. Rectan…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Brief history -- 1.2. Organization of the book2. Principles of mechanochemical activation -- 2.1. High-energy mechanochemical activation -- 2.2. Modeling and simulations -- 2.3. Concluding remarks3. Ferroelectric ceramics (I) -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Lead-containing unary ferroelectric ceramics -…
"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The flexible electronics paradigm -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Traditional versus flexible electronics -- 1.3. Three-pronged approach to flexible electronics -- 1.4. Defining flexible electronics -- 1.5. Broad scope of flexible electronics -- 1.6. Organization of the book -- 1.7. Discussion and conclusionspart I. Mecha…
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Chemical vapour phase deposition -- 1.2. Overview of thin film characterization techniques -- 1.3. Theoretical modelling and simulations2. Common CVD reactor setups -- 2.1. General -- 2.2. Classification of CVD reactors3. CVD processes on an atomic level -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Chemical reacti…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 25).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Current directions -- Fundamental constants instead of units -- The Kibble balance -- X-ray crystal density method -- 4. Outlook.Units are at the heart of science and technology. Most measurements require units to express their result. The International System of Units (SI)…
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Standards of physical quantities -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The time and frequency standard -- 1.3. The length standard -- 1.4. The mass standard -- 1.5. From macro to micro2. Historical role of precision measurements of time and frequency for the development of physics -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Change from Ptolem…
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. All measurements have uncertainties -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Measurement uncertainty in sports -- 1.3. Are uncertainties always acceptable? -- 1.4. Chaos2. What is measurement uncertainty? -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Statistical and systematic uncertainties -- 2.3. Accuracy and stability3. Units of physical values…
"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. History and development of theoretical research -- 2. Basic equations and solution methods -- 2.1. Basic equations -- 2.2. Boundary conditions and methods of solutions -- 2.3. Summary3. Characteristics of EM flowmeters in closed conduits -- 3.1. Concepts and definitions -- 3.2. Effect of the electrode shape on the weig…
"Version: 20200701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.4. Measurement in the modern world (II) -- 4.1. Envy, money, terror, and the metric system -- 4.2. The endgame -- 4.3. Avez-vous l'heure s'il vous plait? -- 4.4. Falling out of favour with the metric system5. Creating the language that is science -- 5.1. Dividing apples with oranges to make ... something different -- 5.2.…