This thesis deals with the relatively unknown phenomena of longitudinal forces in conductors. A survey of relevant experiments is given. Amp ere electrodynamics, which has been proposed to account for the phenomena, is compared with a Maxwell stress approach, and these are found to be equivalent. The relationship between di erent `action at a distance' theories is discussed. The role of relativ...

The title compound undergoes a metal-insulator phase transition of unknown origm at TMI = 135 K. We studied the electrodynamic response of a-(BEDT~TTF)213

2014 In contradiction to the prediction of the Periodic Table but in agreement with earlier suggestions by Brewer and Mann, the ground state configuration of atomic Lawrencium (Z = 103) will not be 7s2 6d 2D3/2 but 7s2 7p 2P1/2. The reason for this deviation from normal trends across the Periodic Table are strong relativistic effects on the outermost 7p1/2 orbital. Multiconfiguration Dirac-Fock...

A pulsed laser is used to produce surface plasmon excitation in a monolayer of gold (Au) spheres to nanopattern a silicon substrate. An electrodynamic model accompanies the experimental data, based on the numerical solution to the complete Maxwell's equations including near- and far-field effects and reflection from the substrate. The Drude-employing finite-difference time-domain method describ...

Cavity quantum electrodynamic (QED) effects are studied in semiconductor microcavities embedded with InGaAs quantum dots. Evidence of weak coupling in the form of lifetime enhancement (the Purcell effect) and inhibition is found in both oxide-apertured micropillars and photonic crystals. In addition, high-efficiency, low-threshold lasing is observed in the photonic crystal cavities where only 2...

The fluorescence characteristics of a dipole molecule in the vicinity of a spherical multilayered metallic nanoshell (a plasmonic nanomatryoska) of ultra-small dimensions is studied via electrodynamic modeling, where we have computed the fluorescence decay rates, the shifts in emission frequency, and the overall fluorescence yields for molecular dipoles of both tangential and radial orientation...

We use incoherent scatter radar measurements from Millstone Hill and Saint Santin to study the midlatitude F region electrodynamic plasma drifts during geomagnetically quiet and active periods. We present initially a local time, season, and solar flux dependent analytical model of the quiet time zonal and meridional ExB drifts over these stations. We discuss, for the first time, the Saint Santi...