Engineering applications of electronic, magnetic, optical materials

This book addresses theoretical and experimental methods for exploring microstructured metamaterials, with a special focus on wave dynamics, mechanics, and related physical properties.

In this book Gregor Posnjak unravels the long-standing mystery of the internal director structure of chiral nematic droplets, which has been studied both experimentally and theoretically since the 1970s.

This book presents the latest advances in thermal energy storage development at both the materials and systems level.

This book presents recent advances in the design, fabrication and implementation of flexible printed sensors.

This book introduces readers to the fundamental physics and chemistry of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), followed by discussions on recent advances in low platinum electrocatalysis and related catalyst development for PEMFC (the book's primary focus), methods of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) fabrication for low platinum catalysts, and durability issues in connection with MEA.

This book provides an overview of fuel cell technology and, in particular, of Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells (SOFCs).

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the recent development trends in photovoltaics - a big business field that is rapidly growing and well on its way to maturity.

This book discusses systematically the theoretical research and the applications of electrochemical oxygen reduction.

This book deals with a new class of magnetic materials, spin ice.

This volume comprises the expert contributions from the invited speakers at the 17th International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF 2017), held at CSIR-NPL, New Delhi, India.

This book shows the different molecular devices used for solar energy conversion and storage and the important characterization techniques for this kind of device.

This book presents selected articles from the Algerian Symposium on Renewable Energy and Materials (ASREM-2020) held at Medea, Algeria.

This book systematically describes the fundamentals of Magnetic shape memory alloys (MSMAs), with an emphasis on low-dimensional structures such as foams, microwires and micro-particles.

This book describes the physics of phase change memory devices, starting from basic operation to reliability issues.

This book covers major technological advancements in, and evolving applications of, thermal and photovoltaic solar energy systems.

This book presents advanced synthesis techniques adopted to fabricate two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) materials with its enhanced properties towards their utilization in various applications such as, energy storage devices, photovoltaics, electrocatalysis, electronic devices, photocatalysts, sensing and biomedical applications.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to functional dyes, from synthesis and functionality to application.

This volume provides a broad overview of the latest achievements in scintillator development, from theory to applications, and aiming for a deeper understanding of fundamental processes, as well as the discovery and availability of components for the production of new generations of scintillation materials.

This book introduces the synthesis, electrochemical and photochemical properties, and device applications of metallo-supramolecular polymers, new kinds of polymers synthesized by the complexation of metal ions and organic ditopic ligands.

This book focuses on conceptual frameworks that are helpful in understanding the basics of electronics - what the feedback system is, the principle of an oscillator, the operational working of an amplifier, and other relevant topics.

This book provides a detailed life cycle assessment of photovoltaic technologies in order to analyse the environmental and socioeconomic impacts that a large deployment of solar photovoltaic systems will produce in the near future.

This book gives an overview of electronic waste (e-waste) management and the latest technological aspects of recycling and disposal of obsolete electronic components while minimizing the environmental impact of toxic chemicals and heavy metals from e-waste.

The battery management system (BMS) optimizes the efficiency of batteries under allowable conditions and prevents serious failure modes.

This book describes carbon nanothreads with complete and comprehensive knowledge covering theories, numerical methods, and properties comparisons with other carbon-based nanomaterials.

 This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference and Exhibition on Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials (ICE-SEAM), held on November 2021, a virtual conference organized in Melaka, Malaysia.

This book provides recent development in thin-film solar cells (TFSC).

This collection presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals from primary and secondary materials and residues as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production.

This book discusses light, its properties as an electromagnetic wave, interaction with matter, and laser as an optical device.

 This book presents recent reports of total syntheses involving a photocatalytic reaction as a key step in the methodology.

The book describes the main approaches to produce and synthesize iron and steel through hydrogen-based technologies.

This book provides an overview of the use of nanoparticles, carbon-nanotubes, liposomes, and nanopatterned flat surfaces for specific biomedical applications.

This book encompasses select proceedings of NSEST-2020 and ECSIRM-2020.

This book provides a concise overview of the physical basics of different forms of renewable energy (water, waves, wind, solar, thermal, geothermal, biofuels), focusing on the physical limits for the efficiency and energy densities of different current technologies.

This book serves as a quick guide on the latest material systems including their synthesis, fabrication and characterization techniques.

This book (The AUN/SEED-Net Joint Regional Conference in Transportation, Energy, and Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering) gathers selected papers submitted to the 14th Regional Conference in Energy Engineering and the 13th Regional Conference in Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering in the fields related to intelligent equipment, automotive engineering, mechanical systems and sustainable manufacturing, renewable energy, heat and mass transfer.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Functional Materials and Devices (AFMD 2021).

This book, the first of its kind, bridges the gap between the increasingly interlinked fields of nanophotonics and artificial intelligence (AI).

This two-volume book provides an enriching insight into the laser, covering different types of lasers, the basic science behind the technology, their role at the cutting-edge of current scientific research, and their wide-ranging applications.

This book covers the industrial aspects of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for solid-state lighting (SSL).

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Applications (ICANA 2022) and presents recent developments in the fields of nanoscale sciences.

This book covers the industrial aspects of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for solid-state lighting (SSL).

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Applications (ICANA 2022) and presents recent developments in the fields of nanoscale sciences.

This book explores the modification of various synthesis processes to enhance the photocatalytic activity in varied applications in the fields of environmental remediation and energy production.

This book explores the modification of various synthesis processes to enhance the photocatalytic activity in varied applications in the fields of environmental remediation and energy production.

This book systematically discusses the modeling and application of transfer manipulation for flexible electronics packaging, presenting multiple processes according to the geometric sizes of the chips and devices as well as the detailed modeling and computation steps for each process.

This textbook presents a detailed description of basic semiconductor physics, covering a wide range of important phenomena in semiconductors, from simple to advanced.

This book deals concisely and coherently with various issues related to electroacoustic waves in piezoelectric layered composites.

Nonlinear Optics, Fourth Edition, is a tutorial-based introduction to nonlinear optics that is suitable for graduate-level courses in electrical and electronic engineering, and for electronic and computer engineering departments, physics departments, and as a reference for industry practitioners of nonlinear optics.

In this book, the authors discuss some of the main challenges and new opportunities in science and engineering research, which involve combining computational and experimental approaches as a promising strategy for arriving at new insights into composition-structure-property relations, even at the nanoscale.

This book provides a solid foundation for understanding radar energy warfare and stealth technology.