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This book is an introduction to the concept of symmetries in electromagnetism and explicit symmetry breaking. It begins with a brief background on the origin of the concept of symmetry and its meaning in fields such as architecture, mathematics and physics. Despite the extensive developments of symmetry in these fields, it has yet to be applied to the context of classical electromagnetism and related engineering applications. This book unravels the beauty and excitement of this area to scientists.

Electromagnetism. --- Broken symmetry (Physics) --- Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism.

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Electromagnetic homogenization is the process of estimating the effective electromagnetic properties of composite materials in the long-wavelength regime, wherein the length scales of nonhomogeneities are much smaller than the wavelengths involved. This is a bird's-eye view of currently available homogenization formalisms for particulate composite materials. It presents analytical methods only, with focus on the general settings of anisotropy and bianisotropy.

Composite materials --- Composite materials --- Electromagnetism. --- Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism. --- Electric properties. --- Magnetic properties.

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Following their first observation in 1984, random telegraph signals (RTSs) were initially a purely scientific tool to study fundamental aspects of defects in semiconductor devices. As semiconductor devices move to the nanoscale however, RTSs have become an issue of major concern to the semiconductor industry, both in development of current technology, such as memory devices and logic circuits, as well as in future semiconductor devices beyond the silicon roadmap, such as nanowire, TFET and carbon nanotube-based devices. It has become clear that the reliability of state-of-the-art and future CMOS technology nodes is dominated by RTS and single trap phenomena, and so its understanding is of vital importance for the modelling and simulation of the operation and the expected lifetime of CMOS devices and circuits. It is the aim of this book to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date review of one of the most challenging issues facing the semiconductor industry, from the fundamentals of RTSs to applied technology.

Semiconductors --- Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism. --- Electronic devices & materials. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Semiconductors. --- SCIENCE / Nanoscience. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter. --- Noise.

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Butterfly in the Quantum World is the first book ever to tell the story of the "Hofstadter butterfly", a beautiful and fascinating graph lying at the heart of the quantum theory of matter. The butterfly came out of a simple-sounding question: What happens if you immerse a crystal in a magnetic field? What energies can the electrons take on? From 1930 onwards, physicists struggled to answer this question, until 1974, when graduate student Douglas Hofstadter discovered that the answer was a graph consisting of nothing but copies of itself nested down infinitely many times. This wild mathematical object caught the physics world totally by surprise, and it continues to mesmerize physicists and mathematicians today. The butterfly plot is intimately related to many other important phenomena in number theory and physics, including Apollonian gaskets, the Foucault pendulum, quasicrystals, the quantum Hall effect, and many more. Its story reflects the magic, the mystery, and the simplicity of the laws of nature, and Indu Satija, in a wonderfully personal style, relates this story, enriching it with a vast number of lively historical anecdotes, many photographs, beautiful visual images, and even poems, making her book a great feast, for the eyes, for the mind and for the soul.

Fractals. --- Mathematical physics. --- Quantum theory. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory. --- Mathematical physics. --- Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) --- Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism.