Trap Operation Theory -- The Paul Trap -- The Penning Trap -- Other Traps -- Trap Techniques -- Loading of Traps -- Trapped Charged Particle Detection -- Nonclassical States of Trapped Ions -- Quantum States of Motion -- Coherent States for Dynamical Groups -- State Engineering and Reconstruction -- Cooling of Trapped Charged Particles -- Trapped Ion Temperature -- Radiative Cooling -- Buffer G…
Entropy and the Second Law -- Challenges (1870–1980) -- Modern Quantum Challenges: Theory -- Low-Temperature Experiments and Proposals -- Modern Classical Challenges -- Gravitational Challenges -- Chemical Nonequilibrium Steady States -- Plasma Paradoxes -- MEMS/NEMS Devices -- Special Topics.The second law of thermodynamics is considered one of the central laws of science, engineering and te…
Theory and Modelling -- From Quantum Models to Novel Effects to New Applications: Theory of Nanotube Devices -- Symmetry Based Fundamentals of Carbon Nanotubes -- Elastic Continuum Models of Phonons in Carbon Nanotubes -- Synthesis and Characterization -- Direct Growth of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Flat Substrates for Nanoscale Electronic Applications -- Nano-Peapods Encapsulating Fuller…
Optical Signal Recording -- Overview of Photon Counting Techniques -- Multidimensional TCSPC Techniques -- Building Blocks of Advanced TCSPC Devices -- Application of Modern TCSPC Techniques -- Detectors for Photon Counting -- Practice of TCSPC Experiments -- Final Remarks -- References.Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is a remarkable technique for recording low-level light signal…
Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors -- The Development and Optimisation of High Bandwidth Bimorph Deformable Mirrors -- Deformable Mirrors with Thermal Actuators -- Technology and Operation of a Liquid Crystal Modal Wavefront Corrector -- Aberration Compensation Using Nematic Liquid Crystals -- Wireless Control of an LC Adaptive Lens -- Summary of Adaptive Optics at Stanford -- Control of…
Maxwell's Equations, Photons and the Density of States -- Interaction of Light with Matter -- Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators -- The Concept of Polaritons -- Kramers-Kronig Relations -- Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons -- Electrons in a Periodic Crystal -- Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions -- Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations -- Optical Properties of Ph…
A.J. Bard, Z. Ding, N. Myung: Electrochemistry and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Solutions and in Films -- P. Guyot-Sionnest: Intraband Spectroscopy and Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- X. Peng, J. Thessing: Controlled Synthesis of High Quality Semiconductor Nanocrystals -- D. Santamaria-Pérez, A. Vegas, F. Liebau: The Zintl-Klemm Concept Applied to Cations i…
Atomistic Processes during Quantum Dot Formation -- Quantum Dots in the InAs/GaAs System -- First-Principles Study of InAs/GaAs(001) Heteroepitaxy -- Formation of Two-Dimensional Si/Ge Nanostructures Observed by STM -- Diffusion, Nucleation and Growth on Metal Surfaces -- The Stranski-Krastanov Transition -- The Mechanism of the Stranski-Krastanov Transition -- Off-Lattice KMC Simulations of St…
Nanoelectromechanical Systems -- Nanomes Physics: Quantum Wave-Particle Phenomena -- Nanomems Physics: Quantum Wave Phenomena -- Nanomems Applications: Circuits and Systems -- Nanomems Applications: Photonics.Principles and Applications of NanoMEMS Physics presents the first unified exposition of the physical principles at the heart of NanoMEMS-based devices and applications. In particular, aft…
aMachine Learning Theory and Methods -- A Review of Parameter Learning Methods in Bayesian Network -- The Hard-Cut EM Algorithm for Mixture of Sparse Gaussian Processes -- Maximum Principle in the Unbounded Domain of Heisenberg Type -- An Epidemic Propagation Model with Saturated Infection Rate on a Small World Network -- Granular Twin Support vector Machines based on Mixture Kernel -- Detectin…