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1.		The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for your Home, 2nd Edition from Alpha Price: $7.63 Customer Review: This book contains very little actionable information for people who want to begin installing a basic solar power system. If you've never heard of solar power, then this book will provide a bird's eye view of the concepts involved. However, if you want to learn the basics AND obtain enough... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Schaum's Outline of Optics from McGraw-Hill Price: $10.34 Customer Review: This is a perfect supplement to the Optics book by Hecht. Taking a senior optics class at UTD and the schaums book had some really good key examples to help with HW, concepts in general. Highly recommended	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Light-Emitting Diodes from Cambridge University Press Price: $66.20 Customer Review: This book provides the details on LED physics that I sought. It describes how key parts of the LED structure contribute to overall performance, and how LED's have been improved over the years. It is well written. I do not intend to use most of the equations included in this book, still I found it... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Nonlinear Optics, Second Edition from Academic Press Price: $43.99 Customer Review: I have had this book for about a year. I use it often. People are also borrowing it. It is very well written and covers subjects well. It is very readable. I am very pleased with this book.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics) from Springer Price: $71.97 Customer Review: Martin Green has done it again. Just what the researcher and applications scientist needs. Well done! Third Generation Photovoltaics: Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (Springer Series in Photonics)	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor from Cambridge University Press Price: $51.55 Customer Review: All i can say is that either the Amazon service, the delivery time and the item were really excellent, i even got the item few days before the estimated delivery date. Thank you	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Phase-Lock Basics from Wiley-Interscience Price: $68.76 Customer Review: I am new to phase-lock loop design. Like most recent EE grads, I had one class in linear control systems, and some basic DSP classes, but thankfully that's enough to get started on PLL design. I haven't finished Egan's book, but so far I think I can make some generalizations about his writing... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Optical Network Design and Implementation from Cisco Press Customer Review: I work for a switch fabric semiconductor company. I wanted to gain a better understanding of the types of systems that our components would be used in, specifically relating to IP-over-SONET traffic, MSPPs and ring protection mechanisms. This book fit the bill quite nicely. It covers the basics of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers (Classroom Resource Materials) from Cambridge University Press Price: $64.59 Customer Review: My major is physics, and i bought this book to learnmyself. The book is clear and requires less background knowledge, 2 years of basic college math and physics are enough.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices from Cambridge University Press Price: $68.14 Customer Review: Despite a writing style that reads drier than a cracker, this book succinctly covers the math you will need to analyze CMOS devices. The authors' IBM industry background seems to have shaped this practical engineer's guide. I recommend this book to people involved in device design and engineering;... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It all Work (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) from Wiley Price: $108.69 Customer Review: I've had this book for around a month, and I've already been able to apply its lessons in the lab on several occasions. Hobbs has a way of anticipating the things that will trip you up ahead of time, allowing you to learn lessons the easy way instead of the hard way. Some of the stuff in here would... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Optics of Liquid Crystal Displays from Wiley-Interscience Price: $54.85 Customer Review: A few fundamental principles like Maxwell's equations are used in the book to develop successful theory. Thorough examples help to apply the theory to very broad range of actual technological problems of modern optical science. It makes the book of great use to graduate students and to anyone having... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Basics of Interferometry from Academic Press Price: $60.00 Customer Review: Okay, this is a good primer for those who lack an adequate background in optics and lasers. The chapters will highlight the important concepts to understand interferometry. The lacking part is the actual discussion of various techniques which can be used for various materials. But, I would probably... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Second Edition from Academic Press Price: $54.85 Customer Review: Fundamental to the science of fiber optics is knowledge about how light behaves in optical waveguides. Subjects of interest include waveguides made of optical fiber as well as planar waveguides in optical integrated circuits. Issues include the modal distribution of optical energy in the waveguides,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Applied Quantum Mechanics from Cambridge University Press Price: $33.82 Customer Review: This is a very practical quantum mechanics book. It tells you how to use quntum mechanics in many practical engineering situations. The worked problems at the end of each chapter help to enliven and reenforce the learning experience. The chapters on quantum tunneling is especially good. This book is... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.	[no image]	Optical Interferometry from Academic Press Price: $120.75	Click here for more information


17.		Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light (Second Edition) from Princeton University Press Price: $50.62 Customer Review: Although the book is a little above me at the moment, its well written and hopefully it will be an asset in my future work.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor Structures from Cambridge University Press Price: $44.75	Click here for more information


19.		Analog Optical Links: Theory and Practice from Cambridge University Press Price: $53.05	Click here for more information


20.		System on Package: Miniaturization of the Entire System from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $92.55	Click here for more information


21.		Physics of Photonic Devices (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics) from Wiley Price: $85.08 Customer Review: This is by far the worst book I have had the displeasure of cracking open. The only place this belongs is the bathroom floor, just in case you run out of toilet paper and there are no bibles laying around. Despite his heavy accent, Chuang made no spelling errors in his book. This is because the book... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Introduction to Light Emitting Diode Technology and Applications from Auerbach Publications Price: $47.21 Customer Review: This book provides a simple introduction to LED technology. It is written as a reference book, so may be entered at nearly any point. Unfortunately this decision drives a lot of redundant text. The intended reader is someone with little or no background in physics - the emphasis is mainly on LED... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Three-Dimensional Television, Video, and Display Technologies from Springer Price: $165.87 Customer Review: There's some really useful 3D systems-engineering material in this book, although it could have been better edited for consistency/uniformity - - and rather better polished before publication.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Digital Analysis of Remotely Sensed Imagery from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $95.77	Click here for more information


25.		Optical System Design, Second Edition from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $55.00 Customer Review: This is a must have book for anyone doing optical design or who want to use an optical design program. The book is great whether one is a novice or a professional at optical design.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Modern Heuristic Optimization Techniques: Theory and Applications to Power Systems (IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering) from Wiley-IEEE Press Price: $81.51	Click here for more information


27.		Photonics Rules of Thumb: Optics, Electro-Optics, Fiber Optics and Lasers from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $49.94 Customer Review: I'm a great fan of lore books as opposed to textbooks or reference books. Lore books are the ones that contain the things that many people in the field may know, but which they had to learn the hard way, and I like them because they help me learn the easy way. Miller and Friedman have written a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Handbook of Optics, Third Edition Volume III: Vision and Vision Optics(set) from McGraw-Hill Professional Price: $148.16	Click here for more information


29.		Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Second Edition (Optics and Photonics) from Academic Press Customer Review: There are so many careless errors in the most important equations in this book. Some plots are wrong too. Some claims are ungrounded. Not for entry level. For expert who already knows this stuff and who can easily spot his errors. Otherwise you will be so confused and almost wanted to kill... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM83) from SPIE Publications Price: $79.20 Customer Review: Everything you wanted to know about designing and building CCD cameras is contained in this book. Details of how the device works (from a solid-state physics/EE perspective) are outlined. Janesick describes the fundamental operation of the devices: how the charge is generated, collected, transfered,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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