Optical Properties of Condensed Matter and Applications

Following a semi-quantitative approach, Optical Properties of Condensed Matter and Applications presents a summary of the basic concepts, with examples and applications, and reviews recent developments in the study of optical properties of condensed matter systems.

List of contents

Series Preface.
Preface.
1. Fundamental Optical Properties of Materials (W.C. Tan, K. Koughia, J. Singh, and S.O. Kasap).
2. Fundamental Optical Properties of Materials II (K. Koughia, J. Singh, S.O. Kasap, and H.E. Ruda).
3. Optical Properties of Disordered Condensed Matter (K. Shimakawa, J. Singh, and S.K. O'Leary).
4. Concept of Excitons (J. Singh and H.E. Ruda).
5. Photoluminescence (T. Aoki).
6. Photoluminescence and Photoinduced Changes in Noncrystalline Condensed Matter (J. Singh).
7. Light-induced Volume Changes in Chalcogenide Glasses (S. Kugler, J. Hegedüs, and K. Kohary).
8. Optical Properties of Glasses (A. Edgar).
9. Properties and Applications of Photonic Crystals (H.E. Ruda and N. Matsuura).
10. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Photonic Glasses (K. Tanaka).
11. Optical Properties of Organic Semiconductors and Applications (T. Kobayashi and H. Naito).
12. Organic Semiconductors and Applications (F. Zhu).
13. Optical Properties of Thin Films (V.V. Truong and S. Tanemura).
14. Negative Index of Refraction: Optics and Metamaterials (J.E. Kielbasa, D.L. Carroll, and R.T. Williams).
15. Excitonic Processes in Quantum Wells (J. Singh and I.-K. Oh).
16. Optical Properties and Spin Dynamics of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanostructures (A. Murayama and Y. Oka).
Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jai Singh, Singh Jai
• Assisted by: Ja Singh (Editor), Jai Singh (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9780470021927
• ISBN: 978-0-470-02192-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic & Optoelectronic Applications; Wiley Series in Materials for; Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic & Optoelectronic Applications
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering