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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