"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. The Seebeck and Peltier effects -- 1.1. Definition of the thermoelectric coefficients -- 1.2. The Kelvin relations -- 1.3. Electrical resistance and thermal conductance2. The thermoelectric figure of merit -- 2.1. Coefficient …
"Version: 20160901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1 Concepts in classical mechanics -- 1.1. The quantum-classical boundary -- 1.2. Separation of scales and constraints -- 1.3. Newtonian mechanics -- 1.4. The one-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator -- 1.5. Generalization -- 1.…
"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Wave scattering by many small impedance particles -- 2.1. Scalar wave scattering by one small body of an arbitrary shape -- 2.2. Scalar wave scattering by many small bodies of an arbitrary shape3. Creating materials wi…
"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The impact of materials on progress -- 1.2. A possible classification of physical metallurgy -- 1.3. Electrons to components2. Crystal structures -- 2.1. Platonic solids -- 2.2. The crystal, lattice and mo…
"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: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Electromagnetics of graphene -- 1.1. Macroscopic electrodynamics -- 1.2. Constitutive relations -- 1.3. From the time domain to the frequency domain -- 1.4. Isotropic media -- 1.5. Conductivity and permittivity formulations --…
"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: 20161201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-1-14-2).Preface -- 1. Nanomanipulation : why optical methods are best -- 2. Key properties of the radiation -- 3. Optically induced mechanical forces -- 4. Laser cooling and trapping of atoms -- 5. Dielectric and metal nanoparticl…
"Version: 20160901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Porous materials -- 1.2. The geometry of the pore space and porosity -- 1.3. Pore sizes and the pore size distribution -- 1.4. Tortuosity -- 1.5. Guide to the reader2. Recap of thermodynamics -- 2.1. Funda…