The increasing demand in home and industry for electronic devices has encouraged designers and researchers to investigate new devices and circuits using new materials that can perform several tasks efficiently with low IC (integrated circuit) area and low power consumption. Furthermore, the increasing demand for portable devices intensifies the search to design sensor elements, an efficient storage cell, and large-capacity memory elements. Electrical and Electronic Devices, Circuits and Materials: Design and Applications will assist the development of basic concepts and fundamentals behind devices, circuits, materials, and systems. This book will allow its readers to develop their understanding of new materials to improve device performance with even smaller dimensions and lower costs. Additionally, this book covers major challenges in MEMS (micro-electromechanical system)-based device and thin-film fabrication and characterization, including their applications in different fields such as sensors, actuators, and biomedical engineering. Key Features: Assists researchers working on devices and circuits to correlate their work with other requirements of advanced electronic systems. Offers guidance for application-oriented electrical and electronic device and circuit design for future energy-efficient systems. Encourages awareness of the international standards for electrical and electronic device and circuit design. Organized into 23 chapters, Electrical and Electronic Devices, Circuits and Materials: Design and Applications will create a foundation to generate new electrical and electronic devices and their applications. It will be of vital significance for students and researchers seeking to establish the key parameters for future work.

This book is designed as an introduction for the graduate students and researchers who want to understand the trends of MEMS materials and devices. Particularly, this book describes the experimental view of the fabrication of a thin membrane over a conical V-shaped cavity using front side lateral etching technology that proposes a novel front side etching fabrication process for silicon based piezoresistive micro- pressure sensor. As far as the fabrication process is concerned, this technique successfully accomplished a front side etching process laterally to replace the conventional back-side bulk micro-machining. This novel structure of micro pressure sensor can achieve the distinguishing features of the chip size reduction and fabrication costs degradation. This book covers the principles, tools and methods for determining the reliability of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS)materials, components and devices. Hopefully, this book will be very beneficial to the students of MEMS and NEMS courses.

This book is written to provide a brief introduction about nanoscience and technology in various aspects. In particular, Author has emphasized on carbon materials (i.e., fullerenes, carbon nanotubes along with their unique properties and potential application in different areas of every day life), and devices that make use of nanotechnology. In addition, Attention has been drawn towards various microscopes used in nanotechnology. I hope this book will be useful for undergraduate and post-graduate students who are interested to venture into the field of nanotechnology.