Dynamical Properties in Nanostructured and Low-Dimensional Materials (Second Edition)

The dramatic advances that started over two decades ago in the growth, fabrication and characterisation of low-dimensional materials have continued, with important developments in the seven years since the publication of the first edition of this book. Examples of these novel materials include two-dimensional graphene and van der Waals magnets, as well as nanostructures (such as those formed from ultrathin films, wires, disks and rings), formed either singly or in spatially periodic arrays. In parallel, there have been many improvements in theoretical and simulation methods.

The new edition of this book reflects these changes. In particular, the areas that relate to magnetic excitations, mixed (or hybrid) excitations, and nonlinear excitations have all been very active. Most studies of these artificially engineered materials have been driven by their potential for device applications that involve smaller and smaller physical dimensions.

Recently the patterning of nanoelements, into periodic and other arrays, has become a focus of intense activity, leading for example to photonic crystals (and their analogues such as phononic and magnonic crystals) where the control of the band gaps in the excitation spectrum is a basis for applications. The nonlinear properties of the excitations are increasingly a topic of interest, as well as the linear dynamics.

This book is suitable for physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers (in universities, research labs and industry).