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Biophysics

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Jaroslav Kuba
English

Biophysics: Foundations, Problems, and Solutions is an accessible undergraduate text on a wide range of biophysics concepts, examining the field through real problems and their solutions, with comprehensive computation and explanation. With lessons explored over the course of the book, each section also contains a brief theoretical summary of the physics and biology ideas involved, as well as a set of formulae and laws required to answer the issues presented. Intended to serve as the core book for fundamental courses in biophysics and related fields, including biomedical sciences, engineering, and medical technology, the book is also a helpful guide for seasoned experts and researchers who want to improve their knowledge of biophysics or solve related quantitative problems. Biophysics: Foundations, Problems, and Solutions seeks to support readers across several related disciplines in biophysics-focused courses. The book covers a wide range of topics, including fluid mechanics and physics of flow, capillary and surface effects, acoustics, diffusion phenomena and cell membranes, and even radiology and nuclear physics. The book offers a detailed understanding of fundamental principles and dives in-depth into numerical analysis of biophysics problems.

Classical Physics

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Harun Akon
English

Harun Akon’s Classical Physics: Concepts, Applications, and Interpretations makes classical physics and its applications accessible and engaging, fostering a deeper understanding of fundamental physics concepts. Accessibly written, this book helps students understand and put core classical physics principles into practice, from classical mechanics to astrophysics to the basics of atomic, molecular, and chemical physics. Additionally, the book provides easy-to-understand methods for explaining orbital motion using the concept of jerk, and similarly explores negative pressure and its applications in various fields, tying in new interpretations of negative pressure as a fifth force in the universe. Classical Physics: Concepts, Applications, and Interpretations’ goal is to bridge the gap between classical physics and its applications in different disciplines, providing students and researchers with a more intuitive and accurate understanding of these fundamental concepts. The book includes structured content and corresponding applications and figures, complemented by simple experiments to bolster students’ understanding. From an explanation of orbital motion to navigating the thermodynamics of negative pressure to diving into artificial lunar motion, the book provides novel insights into these phenomena. This helpful first edition delivers engaging explanations and additions to the role and importance of classical physics in our modern understanding of the field. It is ideal for courses in physics, mathematics, and related subjects.

Materials Science of Thin Films

3rd Edition
September 1, 2025
Tomas Kubart + 4 more
English

Since 1992, when Ohring’s Materials Science of Thin Films: Deposition and Structure was published as the first true textbook on thin films, the field has expanded tremendously, especially with regard to technological applications. Intended for science and engineering students in advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate level courses on thin films as well as scientists and engineers who are entering the field or require an overview of thin films, the book provides the most comprehensive coverage of materials science and technology related to thin films and coatings of any book. The 3rd edition brings the book up-to-date with the most important advances made since the publication of the previous edition. All chapters have been fully revised and include new illustrations, examples and exercises.

Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications

2nd Edition
September 1, 2025
Rongqing Hui
English

Introduction to Fiber-Optic Communications provides students with the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of modern optical fiber communications and applications, striking a fine balance between theory and practice that avoids excessive mathematics and derivations. Unlike other textbooks currently available, this book covers all of the important recent technologies and developments in the field, including electro-optic modulators, coherent optical systems, and silicon integrated photonic circuits. Filled with practical, relevant worked examples and exercise problems, the book presents complete coverage of the topics that optical and communications engineering students need to be successful. From principles of optical and optoelectronic components, to optical transmission system design, and from conventional optical fiber links, to more useful optical communication systems with advanced modulation formats and high-speed DSP, this book covers the necessities on the topic, even including today’s important application areas of passive optical networks, datacenters and optical interconnections.

Metal Oxide Supported Metal Nanoparticles

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
English

This book combines theoretical description of the metal–oxide interface and its fabrication with the current state of the art in characterization and applications. The book takes a holistic approach that allows the reader to approach this complex field of research from many different angles, to reach new conclusions and develop new methods and materials. Metal oxide supported metal particles are used in multiple environmental and pharmaceutical applications in the areas of materials engineering, physics, and catalysis, but their performance varies depending on the particular synthesis methods, applications, the size and kind of oxides and metal clusters, and surface properties. Metal oxides display various crystalline structures and morphologies (such as nanorods and nanosheets) each of which can result in different properties. While multiple ways of producing and characterizing metal oxide-supported nanomaterials and interfaces have been developed, depending on the application scientists often tend to use familiar methods that are traditionally applicable to their field. This book presents approaches to these materials from a diverse range of perspectives to provide a ready resource for researchers in materials science, engineering, physics, and chemistry to learn about the latest developments in the field. It elaborates how different synthesis techniques from different fields can be applied to metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles, in the belief that presenting knowledge from different perspectives can offer new insights into nanomaterials design. In addition to synthesis and characterization, recent uses of metal oxide supported metal nanoparticles are presented, including applications in the catalysis, photocatalysis, energy, and sensor fields.

Fundamentals of Vacuum Science and System Design for High and Ultrahigh Vacuum, Volume 3

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
J.R. Gaines + 1 more
English

'Fundamentals of Vacuum Science and System Design for High and Ultrahigh Vacuum, Volume 3: Materials, Design, and Practical Considerations' introduces the reader to vacuum system design through a review of materials appropriate for vacuum applications, and a discussion of the range of mechanical, logistical, and environmental considerations that should be addressed when developing a vacuum system design. The book includes a review of common chamber styles, including boxes, cylinders, and spheres, as well as bespoke 3D-printed enclosures for high and ultrahigh vacuum. A simple deposition system, based on direct current magnetron sputtering for single and multiple cathodes, is provided as an example. Beyond system design, this volume covers critical operational issues, including vacuum hygiene for operators and cleaning for vacuum service, that every vacuum technologist must know. This volume also provides a review of modeling approaches for vacuum systems that covers the mechanical and vacuum performance of systems, with a focus on system optimization.

One- and Two- Dimensional Nanomaterials

1st Edition
June 2, 2025
Sanket Joshi + 3 more
English

One- and Two- Dimensional Nanomaterials: Bioengineering Applications covers in-depth information on the properties, structures and preparation methods of one- and two- dimensional nanomaterials, providing readers with tools that can be immediately implemented and adapted to fit a diverse range of applications. The first part of the book covers the fundamentals of these materials, including properties and synthesis techniques. The second part of the book focuses on the use of several conventional and emerging nanomaterial in the areas of pollution management, remediation practices, and other possible applications in biosensing, biomedicine, and antimicrobial activity.This book will be a helpful resource to nano-scientists, biotechnologists, and bioengineers engaged in studying the emerging trends and different fabrication techniques of nanostructures, and their applications and possible toxicity.

Ferroelectrics and Negative Capacitance

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
Girish Pahwa + 4 more
English

“Ferroelectrics and Negative Capacitance” focuses on the materials, devices, and circuit- and system-level applications of ferroelectric devices and technology enabled by newly discovered CMOS process-compatible ferroelectric materials. The book provides in-depth knowledge of the operation of different ferroelectric devices, including their advantages and disadvantages for applications in electronics. Discussion covers not only the fundamental core of the models, but also recent developments and real device effects and techniques to reach compact modeling form for SPICE circuit simulations. The book also covers process variability, device–circuit co-design, and optimization techniques all the way up to the processor level. There is a growing need for a deeper understanding of the physics of ferroelectrics and the negative capacitance effect. Conventional non-volatile memories such as DRAM and flash are now reaching their scaling and performance limits and are unable to provide data rate and low-power requirements for data-intensive applications such as AI. Emerging ferroelectric-based memory devices such as ferroelectric random-access memory (FeRAM), ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ), and ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET), promise to mitigate these issues, and have gained traction in the last decade especially due to the discovery of ferroelectricity in CMOS manufacturing process-compatible oxides. At the same time, the scaling and performance of logic devices are also reaching their limit due to limitations imposed by short-channel effects and the inability to remove the generated device heat by reducing the power supply voltage. Ferroelectric-based negative capacitance field-effect transistor (NCFET) technology offers to break the Boltzmann limit of a minimum 60 mV/decade subthreshold swing and provides significant improvements in electrostatic integrity using the negative capacitance property of a ferroelectric layer in its gate stack, thereby enabling the continuation of not only Moore’s law but also Dennard’s scaling. This book provides an in-depth understanding of ferroelectric logic and memory devices, including polarization switching, domain dynamics, the negative capacitance effect, device operation, compact models of FeRAM, FeFET, FTJ, and NCFET, and device–circuit co-design and optimization for novel NCFET computing.

Phoretic Motions of Liquid Droplets

1st Edition
Volume TBD
June 1, 2025
Eric Lee
English

Phoretic Motions of Liquid Droplets provides a detailed description of the fundamentals of the electrostatics and electrokinetics of various kinds of droplets: dielectric droplets, conducting droplets such as liquid metal droplets, polymeric liquid droplets and the implications they have for their broad practical applications. It is crucial to fully understand the underlying electrokinetic mechanisms before any meaningful practical applications of liquid droplets can be launched successfully. This is the first book to directly address phoretic motion of droplets; previously there has only been brief mention in texts mostly about solid particles, on which there is much more literature. Droplets of different kinds have different applications in practice. For instance, conducting droplets like liquid metal droplets have an inherent advantage in drug delivery over liposomes of dielectric droplets in terms of chemiphoresis, although both are widely used in drug delivery and micro/nanofluidic operations, among other practical applications. The book provides insights and guidelines for design engineers in drug delivery even in the fabrication stage of the droplets carrying therapeutic chemicals. Moreover, it is helpful in analyzing data for experimental researchers as well. For instance, a droplet filled with dielectric materials may not behave electrokinetically like a dielectric droplet under certain circumstances in practice, as might be expected by experimentalists. Phoretic Motions of Liquid Droplets is written for researchers, industry engineers, and graduate and postdoc students in the field of colloidal and interface science and technology who are working on colloidal physics aspects and focused on electrokinetics, primarily from a chemical engineering, biomedical and biochemical engineering background.

Ferroelectricity in Doped Hafnium Oxide

2nd Edition
June 1, 2025
Uwe Schroeder + 2 more
English

The ferroelectric and field-induced ferroelectric properties of HfO2-based films are considered promising for various applications, including non-volatile memories, neuromorphic applications, IR sensors, energy storage and harvesting, and solid-state cooling. This book covers all aspects relating to the structural and electrical properties of HfO2 and its implementation into semiconductor devices. Fundamentals of ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties, HfO2 processes, and the impact of dopants on ferroelectric properties are extensively discussed in the book, along with phase transition, switching kinetics, epitaxial growth, thickness scaling, and more. Additional chapters consider the modeling of ferroelectric phase transformation, structural characterization, and the differences and similarities between HfO2 and standard ferroelectric materials. Finally, HfO2-based devices are summarized. The new edition extends the first edition in the following areas: • Detailed discussion of the causes and dependencies for ferroelectric properties • Broader coverage of all known deposition techniques • Comparison of ferroelectric with antiferroelectric, piezoelectric, and pyroelectric properties • More aspects on switching and field cycling behaviour • Wider overview of simulation results • Further applications of new HfO2-based materials for energy storage, and pyroelectric, piezoelectric, and neuromorphic applications