Advances in Condensed Matter Optics

Chen, Dai, Jiang, Jin, Liu, and Zhao offer this summary of some of the past two decades’ most interesting novel discoveries in the field of condensed matter optics. Aimed at a broad audience of graduate students and scholars, the book particularly highlights the work of Chinese scientists. Six topics of interest are chosen: narrow band gap semiconductors, including structural properties, crystal growth, optical and electrical properties, and applications; analysis of metamaterial systems and hyperinterfaces with a group velocity model, including the investigation of such phenomena as optical cloaking; light propagation at metal surfaces; photo-induced spin in materials with varying magnetic properties; the photoelectric effect in perovskite oxide heterostructures; and magnetic resonance effects in large metamolecules. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

L. Chen, Y.-X.Zheng, H. Zhao, Fudan University, Shanghai; N. Dai, SITP,CAS Shanghai; X. Jiang, SIM, CAS Shanghai;K. Jin, IoP, CAS Beijing; H.Liu, Nanjing University.