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Libros en Materiales Electrónicos, Ópticos y Magnéticos

  • Smart Thin Films and Nanomaterials for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond

    • 1 Edición
    • Velumani Subramaniam + 4 más
    • Inglés
    Smart Thin Films and Nanomaterials for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Beyond provides an overview of various smart thin films and nanomaterials, offering detailed information on their synthesis, properties, and applications that utilize their interesting electrical, magnetic, and optical properties. The background and fundamentals of various types of smart materials are addressed throughout the book, in addition to important aspects such as the difficulty of processing control, optimization of sample synthesis, and materials design challenges. By providing insights into these functional materials, the book presents potential pathways for exploring novel phases, optimizing their properties, and tailoring them to suitable forms prior to prototype testing for a range of applications. Smart nanomaterials are notable for their advantages over other materials in the areas of cost, ease of processing, and tunable magnetic, electrical, and optical properties, and they show great promise for the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and beyond. From this perspective, the book focuses on different classes of smart nanomaterials targeting a broad spectrum of disciplines and applications – including engineering, medicine, biotechnology and materials science – that are all closely aligned with the ongoing evolution of Industry 4.0.

  • Zirconia

    Properties, Synthesis, and Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Jashanpreet Singh + 1 más
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    Zirconia: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications is a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the research in the field of zirconia-based materials. As Zirconia displays a unique combination of mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties, this book focuses on the growing number of applications of zirconia-based materials, including their usage in biomedical, energy, and environmental applications. In addition to zirconia’s properties, synthesis, and applications, a brief historical introduction is provided, along with future guidance. This book will be of interest to a broad audience, including students, academics, and industrial researchers working in materials science, chemistry, and physics.

  • Metal Oxide-Based Phosphors

    Properties and Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Teboho P. Mokoena + 3 más
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    Metal Oxide-Based Phosphors: Properties and Applications focuses on the basic principles, experimental techniques, and various applications of luminescent materials derived from metal oxides. The book is divided into three parts, with Part One presenting the fundamentals of luminescent materials and experimental methods, including different synthesis and characterization techniques. Part Two provides strategies to enhance luminescence through various host matrices, constructing hybrid phosphors with polymeric materials, and doping with non-rare earth elements. Finally, Part Three explores recent developments of metal oxide-based phosphors in various applications, including photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, anti-counterfeiting, radiation dosimeters, and chemical sensors.Luminescent materials show enormous potential in a wide range of applications, such as solid-state lighting, energy, display imaging, and optical thermometry. Developing novel metal oxide-based phosphors and exploring green technologies and methods for the preparation of high-performance phosphor materials is therefore vital for a number of industries.

  • Graphene Quantum Dots

    Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Srikanta Moharana + 1 más
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    Graphene Quantum Dots: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications provides a detailed exploration of graphene quantum dots (GQDs), covering their synthesis methods, unique properties, and applications. The book begins with fundamental aspects of GQDs, discussing synthesis techniques, doping, and functionalization methods, and highlighting their distinctive characteristics. It also examines the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of GQDs, followed by a look at their diverse applications in fields such as energy storage, optoelectronics, and biomedicine. This resource serves as a valuable tool for academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists, engineers, chemists, physicists, and others working on the development of graphene quantum dots and related materials.By providing insights into current research, challenges, and future possibilities, the book offers a comprehensive guide for those working with GQDs to advance their understanding and applications in various industries.

  • Iron Oxide-Based Nanomaterials

    From Fundamentals to Emerging Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Nisar Ali + 3 más
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    Iron Oxide-Based Nanomaterials: From Fundamentals to Emerging Applications provides a detailed description of iron oxide nanomaterials, their synthesis, and characterization, while also exploring a wide range of applications of iron oxide nanocomposites and nanomaterials in different fields, including energy, sensing, environmental remediation, biomedical, and enzymes. The book provides all the necessary basic information about iron-oxide-based nanomaterials, including structural aspects, synthesis-to-structu... relationships, and applications of these materials in various areas. It also explains the different synthesis parameters that control the surface morphology, crystallinity, and activity of iron oxides desirable for different applications. Starting with an initial section on fundamentals, the book then focuses the following three sections on the key application area of these particles: energy, biomedicine, and the environment.

  • Ion Irradiation in Emerging Materials and Devices

    From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Vishnu Chauhan + 3 más
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    Ion Irradiation in Emerging Materials and Devices: From Fundamentals to Advanced Applications presents new paradigms in the modification of existing materials and the discovery of new materials by modifying materials at specific locations at the nanoscale. This book explores the effects of ion irradiation on different materials and devices and describes the resultant modifications in their structural, electrical, morphological, optical, and magnetic properties. It also provides assessment of device performance and a comprehensive literature review. The book provides a thorough examination of ion beam-induced synthesis and characterization of various materials, and also reports the recent advances in materials modification through radiation, a promising technique for creating materials better suited for a range of specific applications. Lastly, the book highlights new materials, showcasing promising technologies and enhanced properties. This book will appeal especially to new and early-career researchers, as it examines the work done in the field of ion implantation over the past few decades, and proposes potential new areas of research and their applications.

  • Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment

    • 1 Edición
    • Siva Tamilvanan + 3 más
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    Smart Multifunctional Coatings for Corrosion Detection and Treatment investigates the impact smart multifunctional coatings in corrosion sensing, self-healing, superhydrophobic, anti-fouling, and self-cleaning applications. The book focuses on smart multifunctional materials, their special synthesis techniques, applications, and commercial challenges, and provides a comprehensive analysis of smart materials-based coatings, from the fundamentals to industrial-scale exploratory research. The book sets out the components and performance-governin... parameters of multiple applications of smart coatings, identifying the challenges, trends and limitations involved in their implementation. It is ideal for advanced students and research scholars, as well as industry professionals working in sustainable coatings for various fields, including textiles and the automobile industry.

  • BSIM–SOI Industry-Standard Compact Model

    Surface Potential-Based FET Model for RFIC Design
    • 1 Edición
    • Chetan Kumar Dabhi + 5 más
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    BSIM–SOI Industry-Standard Compact Model: Surface Potential-Based FET Model for RFIC Design provides complete coverage of compact modeling and design techniques specific to SOI transistors. The book is designed to be the first comprehensive guide that thoroughly explains the industry-standard BSIM-SOI compact model, along with the unique modeling and RF design techniques necessary for the accurate extraction and implementation of the industry standard BSIM-SOI model. This book will be a valuable reference for the expanding field of SOI technology, catering specifically to circuit designers, device engineers, academic researchers, and students.This book will equip designers, engineers, and researchers with the knowledge and tools required to optimize SOI-based circuit performance and system integration. The book explains fundamental surface-potential calculations and addresses various real device effects, such as floating body, self-heating, dynamic depletion effects, and layout influences to accurately replicate realistic device behavior. Additionally, the step-by-step parameter extraction procedures for the BSIM-SOI model are outlined, and the results of benchmark tests are also presented.

  • Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles

    Fundamentals and Applications
    • 1 Edición
    • Srikanta Moharana + 2 más
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    Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: Fundamentals and Applications offers comprehensive coverage on the basic principles of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, encompassing their synthesis methodologies, characterization techniques, and applications in a range of sectors like energy, electronics, and healthcare. Furthermore, it tackles the difficulties encountered in optimizing the characteristics of nanoparticles for particular uses and provides valuable information on the most recent achievements in this area. With an eye on practical real-world applications, the book provides new directions for study and development across a range of disciplines, from science and academia to technology and industry.It acts as a timely bridge between the lab and the factory by equipping researchers with the necessary knowledge to apply their findings in practical ways while also allowing professionals and technologists to utilize developments from the academy.

  • Photonic Crystal, Plasmonic, and Hybrid Interfaces

    Fundamentals and Applications of Photo-plasmonic Modalities
    • 1 Edición
    • Seemesh Bhaskar + 4 más
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    Photonic Crystal, Plasmonic, and Hybrid Interfaces: Fundamentals and Applications of Photo-plasmonic Modalities explores the field where photonic crystals and plasmonic materials meet, bringing together concepts from optics, electromagnetism, chemical physics, and materials science to explain light-matter interactions at photo-plasmonic modalities. The initial chapters discuss the basic principles, such as physics of photonic crystals and design methods. Then it moves on to discuss how to create photonic crystal structures with specific optical properties for various applications. The book also explores the fundamentals and latest developments in plasmonic technologies and their unique optical properties. Finally, it explores the many applications of combining photonic crystals and plasmonic materials, including practical examples and case studies to help readers understand how theoretical concepts are applied in real life. This is a valuable resource to academic and industrial researchers, graduate students, engineers, and professionals who need comprehensive information on photonics and plasmonics, and both theory and practical knowledge on hybrid interfaces.