Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Materials Science - Electronic Materials

This book provides a concise introduction to additive manufacturing, accessible to anyone with a basic background in engineering and materials science. The author explains additive manufacturing (AM) in terms of advantages and disadvantages and gives a concise list of advantages and disadvantages, enabling readers to understand AM in relation to other techniques. Additionally, this book clarifies various contradictions with the help of numerous examples.

This book:

• Offers readers a unique, accelerated learning tool, revealing the subtleties of Additive...

This book focuses on optical vortices, including beams carrying orbital angular momentum and vector beams. It presents an overview of, and the latest research on this novel type of optical beam, which is a hot topic in the domain of modern optics, especially in optical communication and beam manipulation.

Summarizing the fundamentals of optical vortices, it discusses their characterization and propagation, and focuses on the generation of vortices such as vortex-arrays, and the detection of vortices and their orbital angular momentum state. It also comprehensively examines the...

This book provides readers a good overview of some of most recent advances in the field of hybrid pixelated detectors for X-ray imaging. Coverage includes both technology and applications, with an in-depth review of the research topics conducted at leading research institutions in the world. The conversion of the X-ray signal into an analogue/digital value is discussed, as well as a review of CMOS chips used for X-ray image sensors. Applications of hybrid pixel detectors are discussed, such as medical imaging, high energy physics, space, non-destructive testing and...

This book specifically focuses on state-of-the-art advanced sensing and robotic techniques in smart agriculture and comprehensively describes the new knowledge. Significant agricultural technology progress in advanced sensing and robotics technology has been made recently, which has transformed the conventional agriculture to smart and digital agriculture It provides readers take-away knowledge for seed quality detection, specialty crop harvest and sorting robotics, new sensing method for crop nutrient status, and broadband soil dielectric permittivity measurements. All these new...

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the rapidly evolving field of luminescent materials that hold the key to energy-efficient lighting and advanced display technologies. This book delves into the synthesis, characterization, and application of white light-emitting materials, ranging from organic and inorganic compounds to cutting-edge nanomaterials like quantum dots and carbon-based nanostructures.

            Through comprehensive discussions on the underlying photophysical mechanisms and emission properties, this volume provides valuable insights into the science...