The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story

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Shuji Nakamura's development of a blue semiconductor laser on the basis of GaN opens the way for a host of new applications of semiconductor lasers. The wavelengths can be tuned by controlling the composition. For the first time it is possible to produce lasers with various wavelengths, ranging from red through yellow and green to blue, in one substrate material. This fact, together with their high efficiency, makes GaN-based lasers very useful for a wide spectrum of applications. The second edition of this basic book on GaN-based devices has been updated and significantly extended. It includes a survey of worldwide research on GaN, as well as Nakamura's latest important developments. The reader finds a careful introduction to the physics and properties of GaN. The main part of the book deals with the production and characteristics of GaN LDs and LEDs. To complete the spectrum of applications, GaN power devices are also described.

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Not the complete story - - but certainly a useful book.......2007-03-23

Subtitled 'The Complete Story' - it is not - it's just the early years of the story. Whilst this is a very instructive book and a great introduction to the blue laser diode story and technical detail, plenty of others contributed significantly to the blue laser diode story -- but that is not much of what you read in this 'bio' of Nakamura-san. At least you get some brief references to other teams' contributions.

The book reads like a set of 'cut-and-pastes' from Nakamura and his team's research papers - which is no bad thing. It's certainly good to have so much really useful material in one place.

Greatest book on the new Blue Semiconductor Lasers!.......2000-06-25

This book is by far, the best book I have read about the latest Blue Laser Technology. I give the content and organization of information my highest regard.

$Photorefractive Materials and Their Applications 1: Basic Effects (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)$
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The three-part treatment Photorefractive Effects, Materials and Applications offers comprehensive treatments of the fundamental phenomena, materials and the applications. Volume I deals with the basic phenomena of photorefraction. A comprehensive treatment of photorefractive effects in crystals is given. The book reviews our present understanding of the fundamental origins of the effect in a variety of materials from ferroelectrics to compound semiconductors, organic crystals and polymers. This book has been prepared for researchers in the field as well as for students of solid-state physics and engineering. The chapters contain and convey a thorough understanding of the photorefractive effect, as well as providing a useful reference source for researchers already involved in this field.

$High Resolution X-Ray Diffractometry And Topography$
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High Resolution X-Ray Diffractometry And Topography
D.K. Bowen , and Brian K. Tanner
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The study and application of electronic materials has created an increasing demand for sophisticated and reliable techniques for examining and characterizing these materials. This comprehensive book looks at the area of x-ray diffraction and the modern techniques available for deployment in research, development, and production. It provides the theoretical and practical background for applying these techniques in scientific and industrial materials characterization. The main aim of the book is to map the theoretical and practical background necessary to the study of single crystal materials by means of high-resolution x-ray diffraction and topography. It combines mathematical formalisms with graphical explanations and hands-on practical advice for interpreting data.

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A review.......2000-11-01

This is a new generation book. Most books available in the field cover the whole history of the X-ray scattering theories and applications. Then, specific applications that are very important in our days for industries and scientific researches are not properly treated. This book does begin where other related books have finished. The issues covered are not found anywhere else together, in a same volume, as they are here. It is fundamental to the new era of materials characterization.

Crystal-Field Engineering of Solid-State Laser Materials (Cambridge Studies in Modern Optics)

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ASIN: 0521018013

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This book examines the underlying science and design of laser materials. It emphasizes the principles of crystal-field engineering and discusses the basic physical concepts that determine laser gain and nonlinear frequency conversion in optical crystals. Henderson and Bartram develop the predictive capabilities of crystal-field engineering to show how modification of the symmetry and composition of optical centers can improve laser performance. They also discuss applications of the principles of crystal-field engineering to a variety of optical crystals in relation to the performances of laser devices. This book will be of considerable interest to physical, chemical and material scientists and to engineers involved in the science and technology of solid state lasers.

Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)

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This is the third revised edition of the book originally published in 1991. It provides a complete description of the properties and applications of nonlinear crystals. In addition, it presents the most important equations for calculating the main parameters of nonlinear frequency converters. This comprehensive reference work is now updated and will be of great value to all scientists and engineers working in nonlinear optics, quantum electronics and laser physics.

Crystalline Lasers: Physical Processes and Operating Schemes (Laser Science and Technology Series)

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ASIN: 0849337208

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By the end of the 1970s, crystalline lasers were widely used in science, engineering, medicine, and technology. The types of lasers used have continued to grow in number to include newly discovered crystalline hosts, previously known compounds generating at other spectral wavelengths, and broadband tunable stimulated emission. This has led to the creation of an extremely promising new generation of crystalline lasers that are both highly efficient and more reliable. The major part of this book is devoted to describing multilevel operating laser schemes for stimulated emission excitation in insulating crystals doped with lanthanide ions. The first part of Crystalline Lasers deals with the history of the physics and spectroscopy of insulating laser crystals. The chapters in the second part of the book present results from the study of Stark-energy levels of generating ions in laser crystals and their radiative and nonradiative intermanifold transition characteristics. This section includes extensive tabular data and reference information. Popular and novel operating schemes of crystalline lasers are covered in Part 3. In the chapters in the fourth part of the book, the newest technologies in the physics and engineering of crystalline lasers are considered. The results of investigations into laser action under selective excitations, miniature crystalline lasers, and the properties of nonlinear activated laser crystals are presented and analyzed. Crystalline Lasers summarizes and reviews the results of many years of research and studies of activator ions and multilevel operating laser schemes, and discusses exciting prospects of using these systems to create new types of crystalline lasers. This book will be of use to laser scientists and engineers, physicists, and chemical engineers.

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With a.......2000-12-20

Although I am hardly of a scientific mind (as least not in this league), I am an administrative assistant for the Research Center this man works in. World renowned for his work, many people carry around his writings like a Bible. Very comprehensive and authoritative.

The "Delfin" Laser-Thermonuclear Complex: Operational Complex and Future Directions (Horizons in World Physics)

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Development of New Non-Linear Crystals in the Borate Series (Laser Science and Technology)

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This volume focuses attention on understanding the physical origin of NLO effects in crystals at the molecular level and in particular the relationship between the macroscopic NLO effect of the crystals and their microscopic structure. Additionally, on the basis of theoretical and experimental studies, structural rules are described that facilitate the search for new NLO crystals in borate series compounds.
C.T. Chen is a professor at thechinese Academy of Science where he works in the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter

$Large-Angle Convergent-Beam Electron Diffraction Applications to Crystal Defects (Monograph of the French Society of Microscopies)$
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Jean-Paul Morniroli
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A publication of the French Society of Microscopies, Large-Angle Convergent-Beam Electron Diffraction Applications to Crystal Defects is devoted to an important aspect of electron diffraction. Convergent-beam diffraction is capable of furnishing remarkably accurate crystallographic information. In this book, the author goes well beyond a simple presentation of the method. The description of convergent-beam electron diffraction and especially of LACBED is preceded by several preparatory chapters, in which the principles of diffraction and the nature of electron-matter interactions are clearly set out. An entire chapter is concerned with instrumentation. Another on the interpretation of diffraction patterns enables the reader to master all stages in the process. The book ends with a long chapter in which numerous applications concerned with the characterization of crystal defects are examined and analyzed.

Laser -Induced Raman Spectroscopy in Crystals and Gases (Proceedings of the Institute of General Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR)

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1976 Investments Institute proceedings, April 4-7, 1976, Palm Springs, California
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April's Trust
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Enchanting and good humor!

Funny, sad, with a twist - a must read for any animal lover!

April's Trust
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April's Trust is based on the true story of April Mourning Rowen (Born April 24, 1989-Died December 31, 2001) Two estranged brothers hassle with their strained relationship when they accept the burden they inherited from their sister. Yes, there was a lot of money-but in order to get the money they must care for their late sister's beloved, spoiled rotten horse, April. However, the story depicts how resentment can become love. Love can become more important than even money when the brothers gain April's Trust. All events in this story involving April are true but rearranged to fit the story. Although this novel is a work of fiction any similarities between characters in the book and real persons are not a coincidence.

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Enchanting and good humor!.......2002-05-13

I was enchanted by this book. The author has a wonderful sense of humor. She drew me into the book with her charm then plucked my heart strings with the ending. I read the book in one sitting because I couldn't put it down (I was almost late picking my son up from soccer practice!)

Funny, sad, with a twist - a must read for any animal lover!.......2002-05-03

April's Trust is a must read for anyone interested in a great story filled with wit, suspense, and an intriguing plot! Even more so for anyone with a love for horses, or animals of any kind. Amy Rowen has deepened her skills with this latest endeavor by fully drawing the reader in to a sometimes comical, sometimes sad, utterly unusual, but somehow totally believable story. I was not anticipating the extent to which I was captivated by the characters in the plot, the connection that can and does happen between people and animals, and by the character evolution throughout the pages. The real surprise comes at the end, which at once had me crying, then smiling, then finally in awe of the talent of Amy Rowen as a writer when I "got it". Superbly done.

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Good Reference Book.......2007-03-10

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