This book introduces the reader to latex, which is a colloidal dispersion of polymer particles in water, and explains how useful products are made from it.

The primary focus is the process by which wet latex can be transformed into coatings, adhesives, and composites in the process known as film formation. The book reviews the main experimental techniques used to study the film formation process. It then presents the fundamental concepts for each of the three main stages of the process: evaporation of water, particle deformation, and polymer diffusion. The latest experimental observations are presented along with theoretical descriptions and models. Later chapters consider the effects of surfactant on film properties and describe films made from nanocomposite particles and from blends of latex with nanoparticles, such as clays or carbon nanotubes. The book concludes with a chapter considering the remaining technical challenges and highlighting a few exciting future directions. Throughout the presentation, fundamental concepts are emphasised. Relevant models are explained in an accessible way that does not assume prior knowledge.

This book will serve as a state-of-the art reference for scientists working in industrial R&D and also for researchers in diverse academic subjects, including chemistry, physics, engineering, and materials science.

Series: Springer Laboratory
1st Edition, 2010, IV, 246 p., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-90-481-2844-0

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Over three volumes, the Handbook of Spintronics will cover all aspects of spintronics science and technology, including fundamental physics, materials properties and processing, established and emerging device technology and applications.

Editors-in-Chief:

Professor David Awschalom
University of California
Santa Barbara
USA

Professor Junsaku Nitta
Tohoku University
Japan

Professor Yongbing Xu
University of York
UK

Associate Editors:

Dr Stuart Parkin
IBM Almaden Research Center
USA

Professor Nitin Samarth
Penn State University
USA

Professor Rong Zhang
Nanjing University
China

For further details, see the project website.

Approx. 2600pp, 4 volumes
Springer-SBM & Canopus Academic Publishing
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Extract from the Foreword:
“I am honored to have been invited to write a Foreword to the Handbook of Visual Display Technology, a monumental work indeed!…This book, to the best of my knowledge, is the first of its kind….The authors of the chapters in the Handbook are world experts…I feel that no engineering or science library can be without this book. It will be an asset for all companies engaged in display and display-related business. For researchers this book provides substantial guidelines for the future of display technology.” – Dr Munisamy Anandan, President of the Society for Information Display, July 2011

Editors-in-Chief:
Janglin Chen (ITRI, Taiwan)
Wayne Cranton (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Mark Fihn (Veritas et Visus, USA)

Editorial Board:
Karlheinz Blankenbach (University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim, Germany)
Stan Brotherton (TFT Consultant, UK)
Jason Heikenfeld (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Jon Peddie (Jon Peddie Research, USA)
Peter Raynes (University of Oxford, UK)
Jannick Rolland (University of Rochester, USA)

Contents:
Introduction
1 – Fundamentals of Optics for Displays
2 – Human Vision and Photometry
3 – Image Storage and Processing
4 – Driving Displays
5 – TFTs and Materials for Displays and Touchscreens
6 – Emissive Displays
7 – Liquid Crystal Displays
8 – Paper-Like and Low Power Displays
9 – 3D Displays
10 – Mobile Displays, Microdisplays, Projection and Headworn Displays
11 – Display Metrology
12 – Display Markets and Economics

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Extent: Approx. 2600pp, 4 volumes
ISBN: 978-3-540-79567-4
Publication date: December 2011

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Improved theoretical understanding of the behaviour of f-electrons in solids, driven by accelerating computational capability, has coincided with an improved ability of crystal growers to incorporate rare earth elements reproducibly in wide bandgap semiconductor hosts that are favoured for optoelectronic and spintronic applications. The device possibilities of these advanced materials are promising but by no means well-developed. Following a review of the theoretical background, this book explores the preparation of materials, either through in-situ growth or ion implantation/annealing, the characterisation of these materials and their incorporation in existing and prospective devices.

Featuring contributions from leading researchers in Europe, the USA and Japan, the book will be a valuable resource for academics, advanced students and industrial scientists.

Extent: Approx. 330pp
ISBN: 978-90-481-2876-1 (print) / (e-book)
Publication Date: Forthcoming title – due October 2009

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Ceramics are key materials in a large percentage of devices using piezoelectricity in myriads of applications. This well-known fact is frequently accompanied by a lack of in-depth understanding of the important role of the ferroelectric nature of such ceramics. As they are polycrystalline, non-centrosymmetric materials their piezoelectricity is induced by the so-called polarization process, based on the principle of polarization reversal by the action of an electric field that characterizes the ferroelectric materials. This book presents a wide number of selected topics on processing and properties of ferroelectric materials that are the current centre of attention in scientific and technical research.
Series: Springer Series in Materials Science

Extent: Approx. 565pp
ISBN: 978-90-481-2874-7 (print) / (e-book)
Publication date: Forthcoming title – due October 2009

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This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of a new and broad class of materials under the unified name nanostructured soft matter. It covers materials ranging from short amphiphile molecules to block copolymers, proteins, colloids and their composites, microemulsions and bio-inspired systems, like vesicles. The book shines light on the fundamental question: how self-assembly of various soft materials with internal structure at nano-scale can be understood, controlled and in future used in the new emerging field known as soft nano-technology.

The book offers readers a view on the subject from different perspectives combining modern experimental approaches of physical chemistry and physics, with various theoretical techniques from physics, mathematics and the most advanced computer modelling, which makes it the first book of this sort in the field. Each chapter is written by world leading experts, bringing together experience from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, The Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain and USA. The book is oriented towards active researchers as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

Series: Springer Series in NanoScience and Technology

Extent: 628pp
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6329-9 (print) / (e-book)
Price: £118.50 (UK) / €149.95 (Europe)

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Polarons in Advanced Materials will lead the reader from single-polaron problems to multi-polaron systems and finally to a description of many interesting phenomena in high-temperature superconductors, ferromagnetic oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires. The book divides naturally into four parts. Part I introduces a single polaron and describes recent achievements in analytical and numerical studies of polaron properties in different electron-phonon models. Part II and Part III describe multi-polaron physics, and Part IV describes many key physical properties of high-temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance oxides, conducting polymers and molecular nanowires, which were understood with polarons and bipolarons.

The book is written in the form of self-consistent reviews authored by well-established researchers actively working in the field and will benefit scientists and postgraduate students with a background in condensed matter physics and materials sciences.

Series: Springer Series in Materials Science

Extent: 669pp illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6347-3 (print) / (e-book)
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Ultracold Quantum Fields provides a self-contained introduction to quantum field theory for many-particle systems, using functional methods throughout. The emphasis is on the behaviour of so-called quantum fluids, namely quantum gases and liquids, where trapped
atomic gases are always used as an example to compare the outcome of theory with experiments. After a detailed derivation of the quantum-field-theoretical description of many-body physics, the appropriate Hartree-Fock theory for the properties of a quantum fluid in the normal phase is formulated. The focus then turns to the properties in the superfluid phase, and the authors present a microscopic derivation of the Bogoliubov theory of Bose-Einstein condensation and the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. The former is applicable to trapped bosonic gases such as rubidium, lithium, sodium and hydrogen, and the latter in particular to the fermionic isotope of atomic lithium. Finally, a few topical subjects in the field of ultracold atoms are discussed for which a field-theoretical approach is especially suited. Examples are the BEC-BCS crossover in a balanced Fermi mixture, strongly-interacting imbalanced Fermi gases, low-dimensional Bose gases, the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition in an optical lattice, and Feshbach resonances.

The book is a greatly extended version of the lecture notes for a required course in the masters programme in Theoretical Physics at Utrecht.

Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

2009, IV, 458 p. 100 illus., Hardcover £63.95
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8762-2

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 The purpose of the book is to show how general principles can be used to obtain insight into laser processes. The principles used may come from fundamental physical theory or from direct observation of experimental results, but an understanding of the general characteristics of the behaviour of a process is essential for intelligent investigation and implementation, whether the approach is experimental, observational, numerical or analytical. The last two have a special value since the associated costs can be relatively low and may be used as a starting point for more expensive techniques. The construction of simple models whose underlying principles are easy to see is therefore of special value, and an understanding of their strengths and limitations is essential.

 The applications considered in detail are cutting, keyhole welding, drilling, arc and hybrid laser-arc welding, hardening, cladding, forming and cutting, but the general principles have a very wide application; metallurgical aspects are considered, as are femtosecond interactions with metals. The book begins with a discussion of the mathematical formulation of some relevant classes of physical ideas, and ends with an introduction to comprehensive numerical simulation. Although all the examples considered have the common feature that the source of power is a laser, many of the principles and methods apply to thermal modelling in a variety of different fields and at many different levels of power.

Springer Series in Materials Science

Extent: 2009, 460pp illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9339-5 (print) / (e-book)
Price: £108.00 (UK) / €     (Europe)

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 The fifteenth international conference on Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials took place in Cambridge, UK on 2-5 April 2007. It was organised by the Institute of Physics, with co-sponsorship by the Royal Microscopical Society and endorsement by the Materials Research Society. The conference focused upon the most recent advances in the study of the structural and electronic properties of semiconducting materials by the application of transmission and scanning electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and X-ray-based methods. Conference sessions concentrated on key topics including state-of-the-art studies in high resolution imaging and analytical electron microscopy, advanced scanning probe microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and focused ion beam applications, novel epitaxial layer phenomena, the properties of quantum nanostructures, III-nitride developments, GeSi/Si for advanced devices, metal-semiconductor contacts and silicides and the important effects of critical device processing treatments. Accordingly, this volume should be of direct interest to researchers in areas ranging from fundamental studies to electronic device assessment.

 Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (link to Springer series page)
2008, 588pp, illus., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-4020-8614-4

Price: £158.00 (UK) / €     (Europe)

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