Dynamical properties in nanostructured and low-dimensional materials / Michael G. Cottam.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2015]
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| Series: | IOP expanding physics.
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| Abstract: | The last few years have seen dramatic advances in the growth, fabrication and characterization of low-dimensional materials (such as graphene) and nanostructures (such as those formed from ultrathin films, wires, discs and other "dots"), formed either singly or in spatially periodic arrays. Most studies of these artificially engineered materials have been driven by their potential for device applications that involve smaller and smaller physical dimensions. In particular, the dynamical properties of these materials are of fundamental interest for the devices that involve high-frequency operation and/or switching. Consequently, the different excitations, vibrational, magnetic, optical, electronic, and so on, need to be understood from the perspective of how their properties are modified in finite structures especially on the nanometre length scale due to the presence of surfaces and interfaces. Recently, the patterning of nanoelements, into periodic and other arrays, has become a focus of intense activity, leading for example to photonic crystals and their analogues such as phononic and magnonic crystals where the control of the band gaps in the excitation spectrum is a basis for applications. The nonlinear properties of the excitations are increasingly a topic of interest, as well as the linear dynamics. |
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| Item Description: | "Version: 20151101"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
| Audience: | University and industrial-based researchers and graduate students in physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780750310543 9780750311120 |
| ISSN: | 2053-2563. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 10, 2016) |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Michael G Cottam completed his degree in mathematics and physics at the University of Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Oxford. Following a year working at the Plessey Research Laboratories he joined the faculty of physics at the University of Esses. In 1987 he moved to the University of Western Ontario where he is now a Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His principal research field is in the quantum theory of condensed matter systems. Within this field, his current research projects focus on surface physics, nanomaterials science, and nonlinear processes in solids. The applications are mainly to the magnetic, optical and electronic properties of materials on the nanometre scale. Previous appointments at Western include being the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the Director of Western University's Institute for Nanomaterials Science (WINS), and the Associate Dean (for Research) in the Faculty of Science. |