1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910420937903321

Autore

Bernardo Luís Miguel

Titolo

Luz, vida e saúde : a ação da luz sobre os seres vivos e a saúde humana numa perspectiva científica, histórica e cultural / / Luís Miguel Bernardo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Coimbra University Press, 2020

Portugal : , : Coimbra University Press, , 2020

ISBN

989-26-1786-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Investigação

Lingua di pubblicazione

Portoghese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Light is not an inert physical entity. Omnipresent in Nature, it exerts an essential action on living beings, from the smallest to the most complex, including the humans. All living beings depend on the light for their development and life conservation. According to the spectral composition, the effects of light can be beneficial or harmful. Light regulates confined or systemic biological processes and may be used as a therapeutic tool. Light pollution  may  cause  harmful  effects  in  plants  and  animals, disturbing the stability of ecosystems. All these aspects are treated in Light, Life and Health, in a scientific, historical and sociocultural approach. Within international context, the work that Portuguese produced to study and disseminate those subjects is exposed and a reference is made to the way the phototherapies have been disseminated and established in Portugal.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139243103321

Autore

Geru Ion

Titolo

Resonance Effects of Excitons and Electrons : Basics and Applications / / by Ion Geru, Dieter Suter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-35807-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 283 p. 36 illus., 14 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 869

Disciplina

530.4/16

Soggetti

Solid state physics

Optical materials

Electronics - Materials

Spectrum analysis

Microscopy

Lasers

Photonics

Semiconductors

Materials science

Solid State Physics

Optical and Electronic Materials

Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Excitons and Biexcitons in Semiconductors -- Paramagnetic and Paraelectric Resonances of Excitons -- Exciton Acoustical Resonance -- Double Resonances -- Investigations of Excitons by Means of NMR Spectroscopy -- Interaction of Excitons with Paramagnetic Centers -- Effects of Deep Saturation.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the various types of resonance effects on excitons, biexcitons and the local electronic centers (LEC) in solids, such as paramagnetic and paraelectric resonances on excitons, exciton acoustic



resonance at intra- and interband transitions, radio-optical double resonance on excitons, hole-nuclear double resonance on localized biexcitons, ENDOR and acoustic ENDOR on LEC. The criteria for the generation of coherent photons, phonons and magnons by excitons are explained. The interactions of excitons and biexcitons with paramagnetic centers and nuclear spins, the indirect interaction between the PC through a field of excitons as well as the quasienergy spectrum of excitons and spin systems are discussed. It is proved that the interaction of paramagnetic centers with excitons increases the spin relaxation rate of paramagnetic centers in comparison with the case of their interaction with free carriers. The giant magneto-optical effects in semi-magnetic semiconductors are theoretically interpreted. In recent years, a new perspective has been added to these systems and their interactions: they can be used for storing and processing information in the form of quantum bits (qubits), the building blocks of quantum computers. The basics of this emerging technology are explained and examples of demonstration-type quantum computers based on localized spins in solids are discussed.