IOP Concise Physics

From Astronomy to Quantum Computing, Concise Physics publishes short texts in over 30 distinct areas of physics. These books provide readers with a snapshot of current research, an introduction to key principles, a look back at historical events and people, and even delve into issues surrounding effective teaching methods. These books are aimed at researchers, students, teachers, and anyone interested in physics at all levels. The books are available for individuals in print and e-book format on this site.

Purchasing for libraries is available through the IOP at their web site: IOP Concise Physics.

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	Transformations of Materials Dimitri Dimitrievich Vvedensky Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of thermodynamics, this book has chapters on Brownian motion and the diffus… Publication Date: September, 2019 Read More
	An Introduction to Liquid Crystals Gregory A. DiLisi, James J. Deluca Practically every display technology in use today relies on the flat, energy-efficient construction made possible by liquid crystals. These displays provide visually-crisp, vibrantly-colored images that a short time ago were thought only possible in … Publication Date: September, 2019 Read More
	Nanomaterials Maria Benelmekki Nanomaterials and nanostructures are the original product of nanotechnology, and the key building blocks for enabling technologies. In this context, this book presents a concise overview of the synthesis and characterization methods of nanomaterials … Publication Date: May, 2019 Read More
	A Brief Introduction to Topology and Differential Geometry in Condensed Matter Physics Antonio S.T. Pires In the last years there have been great advances in the applications of topology and differential geometry to problems in condensed matter physics. Concepts drawn from topology and geometry have become essential to the understanding of several phenom… Publication Date: March, 2019 Read More
	Electronic Structure of Organic Semiconductors Luis Alcacer Written in the perspective of an experimental chemist, this book puts together some fundamentals from chemistry, solid state physics and quantum chemistry, to help with understanding and predicting the electronic and optical properties of organic sem… Publication Date: December, 2018 Read More
	Novel Microstructures for Solids Richard A. Dunlap For many years, evidence suggested that all solid materials either possessed a periodic crystal structure as proposed by the Braggs or they were amorphous glasses with no long-range order. In the 1970s, Roger Penrose hypothesized structures (Penrose … Publication Date: December, 2018 Read More
	Metamaterial Multiverse Igor Smolyaninov Many physical properties of our universe, such as the relative strength of the fundamental interactions, the value of the cosmological constant, etc., appear to be fine-tuned for existence of human life. One possible explanation of this fine tuning a… Publication Date: November, 2018 Read More
	Spin-Wave Theory and its Applications to Neutron Scattering and THz Spectroscopy Randy Fishman, Jaime Fernandez-Baca , Toomas Room Two of the most powerful tools used to study magnetic materials are inelastic neutron scattering and THz spectroscopy. Because the measured spectra provide a dynamical fingerprint of a magnetic material, those tools enable scientists to unravel the s… Publication Date: November, 2018 Read More
	Basic Surfaces and their Analysis Lyudmila V. Goncharova “God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.” This statement by Nobel prize winner Wolfgang Paul emphasizes the diabolic nature of surfaces. Since surface properties deviate significantly from the bulk solid stare, surface studies can b… Publication Date: July, 2018 Read More
	Hyperbolic Metamaterials Igor Smolyaninov Hyperbolic metamaterials were originally introduced to overcome the diffraction limit of optical imaging. Soon thereafter it was realized that hyperbolic metamaterials demonstrate a number of novel phenomena resulting from the broadband singular beha… Publication Date: March, 2018 Read More
	Thermal Properties of Matter Joe Khachan The ancient Greeks believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, water, air, and fire. By a remarkable coincidence (or perhaps not), today we know that there are four states of matter: solids (e.g. earth), liquids (e.g. water), gasse… Publication Date: February, 2018 Read More
	Creating Materials with a Desired Refraction Coefficient Alexander G. Ramm Creating Materials with a Desired Refraction Coefficient provides a recipe for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient. The author draws interest in solving practically (technologically) the problem of producing sma… Publication Date: January, 2018 Read More
	A Journey into Reciprocal Space A.M. Glazer The concept of reciprocal space is over 100 years old, and has been of particular use by crystallographers in order to understand the patterns of spots when x-rays are diffracted by crystals. However, it has a much more general use, especially in the… Publication Date: November, 2017 Read More
	Crystal Engineering Jeffrey Huw Williams There are more than 20 million chemicals in the literature, with new materials being synthesized each week. Most of these molecules are stable, and the 3-dimensional arrangement of the atoms in the molecules, in the various solids may be determined b… Publication Date: October, 2017 Read More
	Concepts in Physical Metallurgy Lavakumar Avala The progress of civilization can be, in part, attributed to their ability to employ metallurgy. This book is an introduction to multiple facets of physical metallurgy, materials science, and engineering. As all metals are crystalline in structure, i… Publication Date: May, 2017 Read More
	Advanced Numerical and Theoretical Methods for Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials Didier Felbacq This book provides a set of theoretical and numerical tools useful for the study of wave propagation in metamaterials and photonic crystals. While concentrating on electromagnetic waves, most of the material can be used for acoustic (or quantum) wave… Publication Date: December, 2016 Read More
	Designing Hybrid Nanoparticles Maria Benelmekki In the last few years, several bottom-up and top-down synthesis routes have been developed to produce tailored hybrid nanoparticles (HNPs). This book provides a new insight into one of the most promising bottom-up techniques, based on a practical mag… Publication Date: April, 2015 Read More
	Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Crystals and Meta-Materials Arthur R. McGurn This is a brief introduction to the ideas and phenomena that occur in the nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and metamaterials. These are illustrated within the context of simple models which provide an easy understanding of the physical phenomen… Publication Date: September, 2015 Read More
	Analysis of Alkali Metal Diatomic Spectra Jin-Tae Kim, Bongsoo Kim, William C. Stwalley, This book illustrates the complementarity of molecular beam (MB) spectra and ultracold molecule (UM) spectra in unraveling the complex electronic spectra of diatomic alkali metal molecules, using KRb as a prime example. Researchers interested in mole… Publication Date: 12/01/2014 Read More
	Liquid Crystals through Experiments Mojca Cepic, Physics teachers often find it difficult to teach new advances in research to their students at the high school and undergraduate level. This book will help bring the new, scientifically interesting and active research topic of liquid crystals into … Publication Date: 12/01/2014 Read More

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