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This book highlights the optical properties of metal oxides at both
the fundamental and applied level and their use in various
applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the optical
properties and related spectroscopic techniques essential for
anyone interested in learning about metal oxide nanostructures.
This is partly due to the fact that optical properties are closely
associated with other properties and functionalities (e.g.,
electronic, magnetic, and thermal), which are of essential
significance to many technological applications, such as optical
data communications, imaging, lighting, and displays, life
sciences, health care, security, and safety. The book also
highlights the fundamentals and systematic developments in various
optical techniques to achieve better characterization,
cost-effective, user-friendly approaches, and most importantly,
state-of-the-art developing methodologies for various scientific
and technological applications. It provides an adequate
understanding of the imposed limitations and highlights the
prospects and challenges associated with optical analytical methods
to achieve the desired performance in targeted applications.
This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers
and their hybrids with different materials. It highlights the
topics pertinent to research and development in academia and in the
industry. The book thus discusses the preparation and
characterization of these materials, as well as materials
properties and their processing. The current challenges in the
field are addressed, and an outline on new and even futuristic
approaches is given. "Conducting Polymer Hybrids" is concerned with
a fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging
applications, including energy generation and storage,
supercapacitors, electronics, display technologies, sensing,
environmental and biomedical applications. The book covers a large
variety of systems: one-, two-, and three-dimenstional composites
and hybrids, mixed at micro- and nanolevel.
This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers
and their hybrids with different materials. It highlights the
topics pertinent to research and development in academia and in the
industry. The book thus discusses the preparation and
characterization of these materials, as well as materials
properties and their processing. The current challenges in the
field are addressed, and an outline on new and even futuristic
approaches is given. "Conducting Polymer Hybrids" is concerned with
a fascinating class of materials with the promise for wide-ranging
applications, including energy generation and storage,
supercapacitors, electronics, display technologies, sensing,
environmental and biomedical applications. The book covers a large
variety of systems: one-, two-, and three-dimenstional composites
and hybrids, mixed at micro- and nanolevel.
Phosphor Handbook: Process, Properties and Applications provides a
comprehensive overview of the latest advances in research on the
synthesis, characterization and applications of organic and
inorganic phosphors. There is detailed information presented on the
characterization of the relevant phosphor groups, such as
up-conversion and down-conversion phosphors, inorganic LED
phosphors, organic LED phosphors and thermoluminescence and
dosimetric phosphors using various physical and chemical advances.
Finally, the advances in phosphor technologies are discussed,
including current barriers to their use in commercial applications
and emerging opportunities. This book is suitable for researchers
and practitioners in academia and those working in R&D in
industry in the disciplines of materials science and engineering,
materials chemistry, materials physics, photonics science and
technology, nanotechnology and physical chemistry.
Over the past decade the world has seen the rise of the fascinating
and diverse field currently recognized as nanotechnology. This book
covers a broad spectrum of topics within nanotechnology, including
synthesis techniques, various innovative characterization
techniques, growth mechanisms of nanomaterials, the physics and
chemistry of nanomaterials, diverse functionalization methods, and
the various applications of nanomaterials in biology, therapeutics,
energy, food science, and environmental science. It also discusses
applications of nanostructured materials, integrative applications
such as nano- and micro-electronic sensor devices, as well as
agricultural and environmental remediation applications. The book
also includes a discussion of advances in functionalized
nanomaterials (0D, 1D, 2D and 3D) and covers the early stages of
the development of functionalized nanostructures, considering the
future for 2D nanomaterials and 3D objects. Additionally, it
includes a chapter on nanomaterial research development that
highlights work on the life-cycle analysis of nanostructured
materials and toxicity aspects. This book proves useful for
researchers and professionals working in the field of nanomaterials
and green technology, as well as in the field of nanotechnology. It
should be useful to students and specialized researchers in a
number of disciplines ranging from biology, chemistry, and
materials science to engineering and manufacturing in both academia
and industry.
This book highlights the synthesis, luminescence, and applications
of rare earth-doped phosphors materials for solid-state lighting.
Solid-state lighting is turning into a leading technology in the
lighting industry, permitting improvement in the fields from
architectural to domestic applications. Driven with the aid of
using ongoing multi-field research, solid-state lighting needs an
improvement of various technologies: efficient and reliable
light-emitting devices, devices for new functionalities, and
optical solutions for beam shaping. Noteworthy research endeavors
were aimed to find out eco-friendly, better performance, cost, and
energy-efficient phosphor materials for the application in
solid-state lighting devices. Power phosphor materials with
advanced optical and photoluminescence properties in a wide range
of areas have shared the research efforts in this sector aimed in
the direction of achieving better material features. Rare earth
ion-doped phosphor materials have been the subject of scientific
interest because of their significant applications in a variety of
fields such as display devices, temperature sensors, solar cells,
bio-imaging, and optoelectronics devices. This book covers the
broad aspects of organic and inorganic materials based on phosphor
materials and is beneficial to researchers involved in these areas.
This book is specially designed to provide an introductory concept
of luminescent materials, particularly man-made (artificial)
phosphors in a language comprehensible to beginners and students.
The book also includes some new materials with promising
technologies and upgraded properties that expose new potential
possibilities are also highlighted.
Metal Oxides for Next Generation Optoelectronic, Photonic and
Photovoltaic Applications focuses on the optoelectronic, photonic
and photovoltaic behaviors of metallic oxides and closely related
phenomena, from elementary principles to the latest findings. Each
chapter includes a comprehensive evaluation of the synthesis and
characterization of the most relevant metal oxides nanostructures
for each application. In addition, there is a focus on methods to
tune the materials’ properties in order to improve devices
performance. This book is suitable for researchers and
practitioners in academia and industry working in the disciplines
of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. Metal
oxides are widely used in various optoelectronic devices,
photonics, display devices, smart windows, sensors, optical
components, energy-saving, and harvesting devices. Each application
requires materials with their own specific properties. By
controlling the particle size, shape, crystal structure, one can
tune various properties of metal oxides viz. bandgap, absorption
properties, conductivity, which alter the material for the specific
application.
Metal Oxide Defects: Fundamentals, Design, Development and
Applications provides a broad perspective on the development of
advanced experimental techniques to study defects and their
chemical activity and catalytic reactivity in various metal oxides.
This book highlights advances in characterization and analytical
techniques to achieve better understanding of a wide range of
defects, most importantly, state-of-the-art methodologies for
controlling defects. The book provides readers with pathways to
apply basic principles and interpret the behavior of metal oxides.
After reviewing characterization and analytical techniques, the
book focuses on the relationship of defects to the properties and
performance of metal oxides. Finally, there is a review of the
methods to control defects and the applications of defect
engineering for the design of metal oxides for applications in
optoelectronics, energy, sensing, and more. This book is a key
reference for materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and
physicists.
Radiation Dosimetry Phosphors provides an overview of the
synthesis, properties and applications of materials used for
radiation dosimetry and reviews the most appropriate phosphor
materials for each radiation dosimetry technique. The book
describes the available phosphors used commercially for their
applications in the medical field for dose measurements. Although
radiation dosimetry phosphors are commercially available,
continuous efforts have been made by the worldwide research
community to develop new materials or improve already existing
materials used in different areas with low or high levels of
radiation. Moreover, researchers are still working on developing
dosimetric phosphors for OSL, ML, LL and RPL dosimetry. This book
provides an overall view of the phosphors available, low cost
synthesis methods, mechanisms involved, emerging trends and new
challenges for the development of emerging materials for radiation
dosimetry. It is suitable for those working in academia and R&D
laboratories in the discipline of materials science and
engineering, along with practitioners working in radiation and
dosimetry.
Nanoscale Compound Semiconductors and their Optoelectronics
Applications provides the basic and fundamental properties of
nanoscale compound semiconductors and their role in modern
technological products. The book discusses all important properties
of this important category of materials such as their optical
properties, size-dependent properties, and tunable properties. Key
methods are reviewed, including synthesis techniques and
characterization strategies. The role of compound semiconductors in
the advancement of energy efficient optoelectronics and solar cell
devices is also discussed. The book also touches on the
photocatalytic property of the materials by doping with graphene
oxides--an emerging and new pathway.
Principles and Applications of Organic Light Emitting Diodes
(OLEDs)explores the ways in which the development of organic
semiconductor materials is opening up new applications in
electronic and optoelectronic luminescent devices. The book begins
by covering the principles of luminescence and the luminescent
properties of organic semiconductors. It then covers the
development of luminescent materials for OLEDs, discussing the
advantages and disadvantages of organic versus inorganic
luminescent materials. The fabrication and characterization of
OLEDs is also covered in detail, including information on, and
comparisons of, vacuum deposition and solution techniques. Finally,
applications of OLEDs are explored, including OLEDs in solid-state
lighting, colored lighting, displays and potential future
applications, such as ultra-thin and flexible technologies. This
book is an excellent resource both for experts and newcomers to the
field of organic optoelectronics and OLEDs. It is ideal for
scientists working on optical devices, lighting, display and
imaging technologies, and for all those engaged in research in
photonics, luminescence and optical materials.
Spectroscopy of Lanthanide Doped Oxide Materials provides a
comprehensive overview on the most essential characterization
techniques of these materials, along with their key applications.
The book describes the application of optical spectroscopy of
lanthanides doped inorganic phosphor hosts and gives information
about their structure and morphology, binding energies, energy of
transition and band gap. Also discussed are the properties and
applications of rare earth doped inorganic materials and the
barriers and potential solutions to enable the commercial
realization of phosphors in important applications. The book
reviews key information for those entering the field of phosphor
research, along with the fundamental knowledge of the properties of
transition series elements under UV/Visible/NIR light exposer.
Low-cost materials methods to synthesize the materials and
spectroscopic characterization methods are also detailed.
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