Tutorial: Introductory Material -- Quantum Annealing: Basics and Applications -- Other Optimizations.Quantum annealing employs quantum fluctuations in frustrated systems or networks to anneal the system down to its ground state, or more generally to its so-called minimum cost state. Often this procedure turns out to be more effective, in multivariable optimization problems, than its classical c…
Fe-M-B (M = IVa TO VIa Metal) Nanocrystalline Soft Magnetic Materials -- The Random Anisotropy Model -- Some Aspects of the Crystallization of Finemet- and Nanoperm-Like Alloys -- Magnetically Soft Nanocrystalline Materials Obtained by Devitrification of Metallic Glasses -- The Initial Stage of Nanocrystallization in Fe-Cu-Nb-Si-B Ferromagnetic Alloys -- Cluster Structure and Thermodynamics of …
From the contents: Design Principles of Plastic Containing Metal Corrosion Inhibitors -- Underlying Notions -- Corrosion Processes in Metal-Polymer Contacts -- Components of Inhibited Plastics -- Thermodynamic and Process Compatibility of the Components of Inhibited Plastics -- Manufacturing Methodology of Inhibited Plastics -- Estimation Procedures of Inhibited Plastics Efficiency -- Designati…
Classical Description of the Interaction of Light with Matter -- The Linear Dielectric Susceptibility General -- The Classical Treatment of Free and Bound Charge Carriers -- Derivations from the Oscillator Model -- The Kramers-Kronig Relations -- Interface Reflection and Interference Phenomena in Thin Film Systems -- Planar Interfaces -- Thick Slabs and Thin Films -- Extended Details: Gradient …
Basic Concepts -- Thermodynamical Principles and the Landau Theory -- Order Variables, Their Correlations and Statistics: the Mean-Field Theory -- Collective Modes of Pseudospins in Displacive Crystals and the Born-Huang Theory -- Soft Modes, Lattice Anharmonicity and Pseudospin Condensates in the Critical Region -- Dynamics of Pseudospins Condensates and the Long-Range Order -- Experimental St…
Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Like State in Ferromagnet-Superconductor Proximity System -- Exchange Force Image of Magnetic Surfaces -- Spin-Dependent Tunnel Currents for Metals or Superconductors With Charge-Density Waves -- Electronic Structure of Strongly Correlated Materials: Towards a First Principles Scheme -- Spin-Density Wave and Short-Range Oscillations in Photoemission from Films o…
Some Basics of the Mechanics of Solid Continua -- Fundamental Weak Formulations -- Fundamental Micro–Macro Concepts -- A Basic Finite Element Implementation -- Computational/Statistical Testing Methods -- Various Extensions and Further Interpretations of Partitioning -- Domain Decomposition Analogies and Extensions -- Nonconvex–Nonderivative Genetic Material Design -- Modeling Coupled Multi…
Classical Regime for SiO -- Brief Notes on the History of Gate Dielectrics in MOS Devices -- SiO2 Based MOSFETS: Film Growth and Si—SiO2 Interface Properties -- Oxide Reliability Issues -- The Economic Implications of Moore's Law -- Transition to Silicon Oxynitrides -- Gate Dielectric Scaling to 2.0—1.0 nm: SiO2 and Silicon Oxynitride -- Optimal Scaling Methodologies and Transistor Performa…
Optical Microscopy, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Ion Microscopy and Nanofabrication -- Confocal Scanning Optical Microscopy and Nanotechnology -- Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy in Nanosciences -- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy -- Visualization of Nanostructures with Atomic Force Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy for Nanoscale Manipulation and Patterning -- Scanning Thermal and Thermo…
Polarization-Graded Ferroelectrics: The Dielectric Analogues of Semiconductor Junction Devices -- Thermodynamic Theory of Polarization-Graded Ferroelectrics -- Graded Ferroelectric Devices (GFDs) -- Trans-capacitive Devices: Transpacitors -- Graded Ferroics and Transponents.Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents details the experimental and theoretical aspects of newly emerging f…