Applied physics books

Chirality in Biological Nanospaces: Reactions in Active Sites  Read More >>

By nature discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in nonlinear periodic structures and result from...  Read More >>

This dissertation focused on the investigation of the thermoelectric properties of PbTe nanocomposites, presenting...  Read More >>

In this thesis we make small steps towards the ambitious goal of a microphysical understanding of the inflationary...  Read More >>

This thesis explores two mathematical aspects of adiabatic quantum computation. Adiabatic quantum computation depends...  Read More >>

Two technologies, immersion and imprint lithography, represent important stepping stones for the development of...  Read More >>

As a conducting, electroluminescent, and photoluminescent polymer, poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (PPV) is a material...  Read More >>

This dissertation addresses the co-evolutionary relationship between central supermassive black holes and host galaxies....  Read More >>

In this dissertation, a novel semiconductor mode-locked oscillator which is an extension of eXtreme Chirped Pulse...  Read More >>

We explore the dynamics of nonsupersymmetric D-brane configurations on Calabi-Yau orientifolds with fluxes. We show...  Read More >>

Single-frequency and mode-locked silver film ion-exchanged glass waveguide lasers as well as all-optical clock recovery...  Read More >>

The need for providing accurate and reliable templates for detecting gravitational waves from the LIGO and LISA...  Read More >>

This work examines the chemical nature of extrasolar planetary systems, considering both the host star and any potential...  Read More >>

Understanding the behavior of plasmas in magnetic confinement fusion devices typically requires accurate knowledge...  Read More >>

Using large multiwavelength datasets, we study obscured AGN in the distant universe that have been missed via traditional...  Read More >>

The US Department of Energy must clean up a large number of sites with groundwater and soils polluted with multiple...  Read More >>

This thesis explores the physics of low-dimensional electronic conductors using two materials systems, carbon nanotubes...  Read More >>

This dissertation starts with an overview of the physics of heavy stable charged particles, which arise in various...  Read More >>

The discovery of supersymmetry is one of the major goals of the current experiments at the Tevatron and in proposed...  Read More >>

We report on a search for Standard Model (SM) production of Higgs to WW* in the two charged lepton (e, mu) and two...  Read More >>

Comparisons between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements of vibrational fundamentals and isotopic...  Read More >>

Over the past two decades, submillimeter and terahertz astronomy has grown rapidly and become an important new window...  Read More >>

We study the role of correlations with the environment as the source of non-Markovian quantum evolutions. We first...  Read More >>

Multimode interference (MMI) in optical fibers has been studied and its applications in optical fiber lasers and...  Read More >>

The study of turbulence has been dominated historically by a bottom-up approach, with a much stronger emphasis...  Read More >>