Cottam, Michael G., <br/><br/>
Dynamical properties in nanostructured and low-dimensional materials / 
Michael G. Cottam. 
 - Second edition. 
 - 1 online resource (various pagings) :  illustrations (some color). 
 - [IOP release $release] IOP ebooks. [2022 collection] .
 - IOP (Series).  Release 22. IOP ebooks.  2022 collection. .
<br/><br/> "Version: 20220701"--Title page verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers (in universities, research labs, industry). 
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<br/><br/><br/>Michael Cottam is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780750339032 9780750339025 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1088/978-0-7503-3903-2  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nanostructured materials.<br/>Condensed matter physics (liquid state & solid state physics)<br/>Condensed matter.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TA418.9.N35  / C684 2022eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>621.381028/4