"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Digital techniques of data and image encryption -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Types of cryptography2. Optical techniques of image encryption : symmetric cryptosystems -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Encryption using linear canonical transforms3. Fully-phase image encryption -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Phase imaging -- 3.3…
"Version: 20251101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The origins of plate diagram theory -- 1.1. Joseph Petzval (1807-1891) -- 1.2. Lancelot Hugh Aldis (1870-1945) -- 1.3. Cecil Reginald Burch (1901-1983) -- 1.4. To the present day2. The plate diagram for a single surface -- 2.1. First-, third-, and high-order -- 2.2. Useful first-order optics -- 2.3. The Schmidt telesco…
"Version: 20230201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction / Andy Wood -- 2. Hybrid surface fundamentals / Andy Wood -- 3. Hybrid surface ray tracing / Andy Wood -- 4. Paraxial properties and primary aberrations / Andy Wood -- 5. Chromatic aberration and thermal defocus / Andy Wood -- 6. The Sweatt model / Andy Wood -- 7. Blaze design / Andy Wood -- 8. Modelling d…
"Version: 20180801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Energy and power -- 1.1. Energy -- 1.2. Power--single phase -- 1.3. Three phase power -- 1.4. Summary2. Magnetic circuits -- 2.1. Rectangular core magnetic circuit -- 2.2. Magnetic circuits with small air gap -- 2.3. Three leg core -- 2.4. Properties of magnetic materials3. Single phase transformers -- 3.1. Single phas…
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- Waste immobilisation -- 3. Current directions -- Geological disposal of high-level nuclear waste -- Spent nuclear fuel -- Plutonium : waste or resource? -- 4. Outlook.Nuclear waste--the radioactive by-product from nuclear power generation, nuclear weapons and medical isotope p…
"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: 20180301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 13-14).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- Zero-dimensional materials -- One-dimensional materials -- Two-dimensional materials -- 3. Current directions -- Harnessing light -- Sensing the environment -- Memory and computing -- 4. Outlook.Nanomaterials are changing the world we live in, and one of the most exciting …
"Version: 20190501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. A sensitivity benchmark for optical biosensors -- 1.1. Affinity of biomolecular interactions -- 1.2. Nonlinear regression of sensorgrams for affinity measurements2. Eigen-waves in optical systems -- 2.1. Complex refractive indices of noble metals -- 2.2. Boundary conditions and surface plasmons3. Surface plasmon resona…
"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…