Engineering applications of electronic, magnetic, optical materials

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the main electrical technologies for process heating, which tend to be treated separately in specialized books.

This book presents the latest results of quantum properties of light in the nanostructured environment supporting surface plasmons, including waveguide quantum electrodynamics, quantum emitters, strong-coupling phenomena and lasing in plasmonic structures.

The 3rd International Congress on Energy Efficiency and Energy Related Materials (ENEFM2015) was held from 19-23 October 2015.

This second edition continues to be the most comprehensive review on the developments in advanced packaging technologies.

This book provides in-depth knowledge about the fundamental physical properties of bulk and low dimensional semiconductors (LDS).

This book provides an overview of electrodeposition of nanomaterials from principles to modern concepts for advanced materials in science and technology.

This volume provides a comprehensive reference for graduate students and professionals in both academia and industry on the fundamentals, processing details, and applications of 3D microelectronic packaging, an industry trend for future microelectronic packages.

This thesis introduces a figure of merit for light trapping with photonic nanostructures and shows how different light trapping methods compare, irrespective of material, absorber thickness or type of nanostructure.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of Lithium (Li) metal anodes for rechargeable batteries.

This book introduces a variety of basic sciences and applications of the nanocomposites and heterostructures of functional oxides.

This book presents recent theoretical and experimental results of localized optical modes and low-threshold lasing in spiral photonic media.

This book focuses on the experimental and theoretical aspects of the time-dependent breakdown of advanced dielectric films used in gigascale electronics.

This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the properties and fabrication methods of GaN-based power transistors, with contributions from the most active research groups in the field.

This book describes important recent developments in fiber optic sensor technology and examines established and emerging applications in a broad range of fields and markets, including power engineering, chemical engineering, bioengineering, biomedical engineering, and environmental monitoring.

This book describes new trends in the nanoscience of isotopic materials science.

This book focuses on a novel phenomenon named photon breeding.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of nanowire research in the past decade, from the nanowire synthesis, characterization, assembly, to the device applications.

This book introduces readers to a wide range of applications for elements in Group 16 of the periodic table, such as, optical fibers for communication and sensing, X-ray imaging, electrochemical sensors, data storage devices, biomedical applications, photovoltaics and IR detectors, the rationale for these uses, the future scope of their applications, and expected improvements to existing technologies.

Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the third volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

In this book the coherent quantum transport of electrons through two-dimensional mesoscopic structures is explored in dependence of the interplay between the confining geometry and the impact of applied magnetic fields, aiming at conductance controllability.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the sol to gel transition in inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic systems, one of the most important chemical-physical transitions and the basis of the sol-gel process.

This book summarizes the basic physics of graphite and newly discovered phenomena in this material.

This leading-edge volume on advances in photovoltaic technology features diverse contributions from experts in every major geographic PV market.

This book concentrates on the design and development of integrated optic waveguide sensors using silicon based materials.

This book covers fundamentals of organometal perovskite materials and their photovoltaics, including materials preparation and device fabrications.

This book presents the method of ion beam modification of solids in realization, theory and applications in a comprehensive way.

This book discusses the promising area of perovskite-based solar cells.

This book presents wet chemical sol-gel and hydrothermal methods for 1D oxide nanostructure preparation.

This book discusses the mechanisms of electric conductivity in various ionic liquid systems (protic, aprotic as well as polymerized ionic liquids).

This book focuses on recently developed crystal growth techniques to grow large and high quality superconducting single crystals.

In this thesis, the author makes several contributions to thestudy of design of graphical materials.

This book covers the principles of advanced 3D fabrication techniques, stem cells and biomaterials for neural engineering.

This bookis focused on recent advances in the development of thin films for photovoltaicapplications, TiO2/WO3 bi-layers for applications with enhanced photo-catalyticproperties, nanometer oxide and hydroxide films for anticorrosive coatings,surface passivation in chemical industries, micro- and nanoelectronics,trilayers of metglas and lead free piezoelectrics for magnetic field sensors,current sensors, spintronics, microwave and read/write devices.

The book provides a collection of selected papers presented to the third International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology PHOTOPTICS 2015, covering the three main conference scientific areas of "e;Optics"e;, "e;Photonics"e; and "e;Lasers"e;.

This book details the chemistry of visible light-induced photocatalysis using different classes of nanocomposites.

This book discusses theoretical and experimental advances in metamaterial structures, which are of fundamental importance to many applications in microwave and optical-wave physics and materials science.

This thesis describesthe design and fabrication of ultrasound probes for pedicle screw guidance.

This book covers the state-of-the-art research in nanoporous metals for potential applications in advanced energy fields, including proton exchange membrane fuel cells, Li batteries (Li ion, Li-S, and Li-O2), and supercapacitors.

This book introduces piezoelectric microelectromechanical (pMEMS) resonators to a broad audience by reviewing design techniques including use of finite element modeling, testing and qualification of resonators, and fabrication and large scale manufacturing techniques to help inspire future research and entrepreneurial activities in pMEMS.

This book reviews the current state-of-the art of single layer silicene up to thicker silicon nanosheets, and their structure, properties and potential applications.

This volume presents the results of a multi-year research programme funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), which explains how organic solar cells work.

This book summarizes the current knowledge of two-dimensional oxide materials.

This book covers the topic of vibration energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials and Devices, which was conceived as a major contribution to large-scale efforts to foster Indian research and development in the field in close collaboration with the community of non-resident Indian researchers from all over the world.

This thesis focuses on a means of obtaining, for the first time, full electromagnetic imaging of photonic nanostructures.

Situated at the forefront ofinterdisciplinary researchon ferromagnetic microwires and their multifunctional composites, this book starts with acomprehensive treatment ofthe processing, structure, properties and applications of magnetic microwires.

This book provides comprehensive, state-of-the art coverage of photorefractive organic compounds, a class of material with the ability to change their index of refraction upon illumination.

This book focuses on the fundamental principles and recent progress in the field of electrical and thermal properties of polymer nanocomposites.

This thesis presents a qualitative advance in our understanding of quantum effects in layered magnetic materials.

This proceedings volume presents selected and peer reviewed 50 reports of the 2015 International Conference on "e;Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications"e; (Azov, Russia, 19-22 May, 2015), devoted to 100th Anniversary of the Southern Federal University, Russia.