Dynamical properties in nanostructured and low-dimensional materials / Michael G. Cottam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cottam, Michael G., author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 22.

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanostructured materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Michael Cottam is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Summary:

The dramatic advances that started two decades ago in the growth, fabrication and characterisation of low-dimensional materials have continued, with important developments in the seven years since the first edition of this book.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. Types of excitations or waves

1.2. Survey of different nanostructures

1.3. Experimental techniques for dynamic properties

1.4. Theoretical methods for dynamic properties

1.5. Photonic band gaps in periodic structures

2. Phonons

2.1. One-dimensional models of lattice dynamics for films

2.2. Higher-dimensional lattice dynamics for films

2.3. Elastic waves for single surfaces and films

2.4. Experimental studies

2.5. Phonons in multilayers and superlattices

2.6. Phononic crystals

3. Exchange-dominated magnetic excitations

3.1. Regimes of magnetization dynamics

3.2. Heisenberg ferromagnetic films

3.3. Heisenberg antiferromagnetic films

3.4. One- and two-dimensional magnetic systems

3.5. More types of exchange interactions

3.6. Magnetic superlattices and magnonic crystals

4. Dipole-exchange magnetic excitations

4.1. Dipole-dominated spin waves in films

4.2. Dipole-dominated spin waves in wires and tubes

4.3. Dipole-exchange waves in films

4.4. Magnetic nanowires and stripes

4.5. Magnetic disks and rings

4.6. Magnetic superlattices

4.7. Magnonic crystals

5. Electronic and plasmonic excitations

5.1. Electronic surface states

5.2. Graphene sheets and ribbons

5.3. Bulk dielectric functions

5.4. Plasmonics in two dimensions

5.5. Bulk-slab model for superlattice plasmons

6. Polaritons

6.1. Phonon-polaritons

6.2. Plasmon-polaritons

6.3. Graphene plasmonics

6.4. Magnon-polaritons

6.5. Other types of polaritons

7. Mixed excitations

7.1. Magnetoelastic waves

7.2. Piezoelectric waves

7.3. Ferroelectric materials

7.4. Multiferroic materials

8. Nonlinear dynamics for nonmagnetic excitations

8.1. Nonlinearities in optics

8.2. Nonlinearities for phonons

8.3. Introduction to solitons

8.4. Some applications to low-dimensional systems

8.5. Gap solitons in nonlinear optics

9. Nonlinear dynamics for magnetic excitations

9.1. Fundamentals of magnetic nonlinearities

9.2. Instability of magnons under microwave pumping

9.3. Magnetic solitons

9.4. Other applications to magnetic systems

9.5. Hybrid magnons in cavities.

Notes:

"Version: 20220701"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 5, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750339032

9780750339025

OCLC:

1336715904

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