Low-Dimensional and Nanostructured Materials and Devices: Properties, Synthesis, Characterization, Modelling and Applications

✍ Scribed by Hilmi Ünlü, Norman J. M. Horing, Jaroslaw Dabowski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 688
• Series: NanoScience and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the fundamental phenomena at nanoscale. It covers synthesis, properties, characterization and computer modelling of nanomaterials, nanotechnologies, bionanotechnology, involving nanodevices. Further topics are imaging, measuring, modeling and manipulating of low dimensional matter at nanoscale. The topics covered in the book are of vital importance in a wide range of modern and emerging technologies employed or to be employed in most industries, communication, healthcare, energy, conservation , biology, medical science, food, environment, and education, and consequently have great impact on our society.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Modelling of Heterostructures for Low Dimensional Devices....Pages 1-47
Aspects of the Modeling of Low Dimensional Quantum Systems....Pages 49-71
Wave Propagation and Diffraction Through a Subwavelength Nano-Hole in a 2D Plasmonic Screen....Pages 73-104
The Challenge to Develop Metrology at the Nanoscale....Pages 105-130
Terahertz Devices and Systems for the Spectroscopic Analysis of Biomolecules—“Complexity Great and Small”....Pages 131-148
Recent Progress in XAFS Study for Semiconducting Thin Films....Pages 149-169
Pulsed-Laser Generation of Nanostructures....Pages 171-180
Graphene for Silicon Microelectronics: Ab Initio Modeling of Graphene Nucleation and Growth....Pages 181-203
Recent Progress on Nonlocal Graphene/Surface Plasmons....Pages 205-237
Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes: Properties, Characterization and Selected Applications....Pages 239-259
Effects of Charging and Perpendicular Electric Field on Graphene Oxide....Pages 261-290
Structural and Optical Properties of Tungsten Oxide Based Thin Films and Nanofibers....Pages 291-307
Electron Accumulation in InN Thin Films and Nanowires....Pages 309-326
Optical and Structural Properties of Quantum Dots....Pages 327-350
One-Dimensional Nano-structured Solar Cells....Pages 351-400
Computational Studies of Bismuth-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanowires....Pages 401-421
Mixed-Phase TiO2 Nanomaterials as Efficient Photocatalysts....Pages 423-460
Electrochemical Impedance Study on Poly(Alkylenedioxy)Thiophene Nanostructures: Solvent and Potential Effect....Pages 461-476
Application of Nanoporous Zeolites for the Removal of Ammonium from Wastewaters: A Review....Pages 477-504
Synthesis and Biological Applications of Quantum Dots....Pages 505-534
Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature for Better Material Properties....Pages 535-553
Quantum Dots in Bionanotechnology and Medical Sciences: Power of the Small....Pages 555-578
Nanomedicine....Pages 579-587
Microfluidics and Its Applications in Bionanotechnology....Pages 589-607
Non-Markovian Dynamics of Qubit Systems: Quantum-State Diffusion Equations Versus Master Equations....Pages 609-634
Computing with Emerging Nanotechnologies....Pages 635-660
Back Matter....Pages 661-674

✦ Subjects

Nanoscale Science and Technology; Optical and Electronic Materials; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Nanochemistry