It is widely recognized that an understanding of the optical pro perties of matter will give a great deal of important information re levant to the fundamental physical properties. This is especially true in semiconductor physics for which, due to the intrinsic low screening of these materials, the optical response is quite rich. Their spectra reflect indeed as well electronic as spin or phonon transitions. This is also in the semiconductor field that artificial structures have been recently developed, showing for the first time specific physical properties related to the low dimentionality...

This book is a significant contribution to the state of the art in the field of computational bioengineering — from the need for a living human database to meshless methods in biomechanics, from computational mechanobiology to the evaluation of stresses in hip prosthesis replacement, from lattice Boltzmann methods for analyzing blood flow to the analysis of fluid movement in long bones, among other interesting topics treated herein. Well-known international experts in bioengineering have contributed to the book, giving it a unique style and cutting-edge material for graduate students,...

This book is an up-to-date review of the different aspects and concepts related to the optical properties of semiconductors. It bridges the dielectric constant concept and the more recent experimental investigations. In particular, the optical response function to time-resolved, high energy, Raman spectroscopies are reviewed. New results focusing on the properties of correlated electrons are also discussed in detail, with a special emphasis on magnetic field-induced properties. As a result of these advanced investigations, this book provides up-to-date reviews of the principles and...