"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part A. Understanding the fundamentals of measurement uncertainty. 1. Using correct terminology -- 1.1. Quantity and quantity value -- 1.2. The measurand and parameter -- 1.3. Accuracy and precision -- 1.4. Standard uncertainty and uncertainty contribution -- 1.5. Error, uncertainty, and expanded uncertainty2. Why do we n…
"Version: 20151001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- Author biography -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Overview -- 1.2. Basic principles2. Practical requirements -- 2.1. Ion generation -- 2.2. Primary and sputter ion beam sources -- 2.3. Mass analysis -- 2.4. Ion detection -- 2.5. Ultra …
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An overview of composite interfaces -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The fibre-matrix interface -- 1.3. Composite delamination -- 1.4. Strain energy release rate -- 1.5. Examples of interfacial failure2. Chemical characterisation of fibre interfaces by FTIR -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Carbon fibres -- 2.3. Glass fibres --…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Energy states -- 1.1. Energetic transition -- 1.2. Atoms -- 1.3. Molecules -- 1.4. States of one-electron-hole-pair -- 1.5. Coulomb interaction2. Nanoelectronics -- 2.1. Fundamental concepts -- 2.2. Traditional quantum dots -- 2.3. Emerging quantum dots3. Synthesis of quantum dots -- 3.1. Characteristics of quantum dot…
"Version: 20240901"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Linear theory and applications in AFM. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Oscillations, linear theory, and applications in AFM -- 1.2. Oscillations in general2. Model description -- 2.1. Continuous and point-mass model descriptions of the cantilever-tip system -- 2.2. Simple harmonic motion -- 2.3. Damped oscillations3. Ener…
"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: 20160401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fullerenes -- 3. Resonant energy transfer -- 4. Photo-induced charge transfer -- 5. Fullerenes as photosensitizers -- 6. Chemical modifications7. Examples of the synthesis of monocationic and polycationic fu…
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Vortices in nature -- 1.2. Historical review of optical vortices -- 1.3. Orbital angular momentum of vortex beams2. Generation of optical vortex beams -- 2.1. Typical vortex beams -- 2.2. Methods for vortex generation3. Measuring OAM of vortex beams -- 3.1. Interference or diffraction method -- 3.2…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Mathematical preliminaries -- 2.1. Fourier transform basics -- 2.2. Review of random processes theory -- 2.3. Simulating a random process with known spectral density -- 2.4. Complex signal representation -- 2.5. Spiral phase quadrature transform3. The angular spectrum method -- 3.1. Wave equation -- …
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Optical wireless communication -- 1.2. VLC for intelligent transportation -- 1.3. AI-based V2X VLC communications -- 1.4. The autonomous vehicle -- 1.5. VLC/OWC communications to flying objects -- 1.6. VLC V2X research directions -- 1.7. Chapter summary2. Nuts and bolts of V2X VLC systems -- 2.1. V…