Semiconductors: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

✍ Scribed by Martin I. Pech-Canul, Nuggehalli M. Ravindra

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 596
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a practical guide to optical, optoelectronic, and semiconductor materials and provides an overview of the topic from its fundamentals to cutting-edge processing routes to groundbreaking technologies for the most recent applications. The book details the characterization and properties of these materials. Chemical methods of synthesis are emphasized by the authors throughout the publication.

• Describes new materials and updates to older materials that exhibit optical, optoelectronic and semiconductor behaviors;
  
• Covers the structural and mechanical aspects of the optical, optoelectronic and semiconductor materials for meeting mechanical property and safety requirements;
  
• Includes discussion of the environmental and sustainability issues regarding optical, optoelectronic, and semiconductor materials, from processing to recycling.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xi
Semiconductor Fundamentals (P. Horley, P. J. Gonçalves Ribeiro, J. A. Aguilar Martínez, V. J. Rocha Vieira)....Pages 1-35
Processing Techniques (Barbara Cortese, Luciano Velardi, Ilaria Elena Palamà, Stefania D’Amone, Eliana D’Amone, Gianvito de Iaco et al.)....Pages 37-93
Characterization Techniques (Marla Berenice Hernández Hernández, Mario Alberto García-Ramírez, Yaping Dan, Josué A. Aguilar-Martínez, Bindu Krishnan, Sadasivan Shaji)....Pages 95-126
Vanadium Oxides: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (Chiranjivi Lamsal, Nuggehalli M. Ravindra)....Pages 127-218
Graphene: Properties, Synthesis, and Applications (Sarang Muley, Nuggehalli M. Ravindra)....Pages 219-332
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Properties and Applications (Nuggehalli M. Ravindra, Weitao Tang, Sushant Rassay)....Pages 333-396
Group II–VI Semiconductors (Bindu Krishnan, Sadasivan Shaji, M. C. Acosta-Enríquez, E. B. Acosta-Enríquez, R. Castillo-Ortega, MA. E. Zayas et al.)....Pages 397-464
Other Miscellaneous Semiconductors and Related Binary, Ternary, and Quaternary Compounds (Dongguo Chen, Nuggehalli M. Ravindra)....Pages 465-545
Organic Semiconductors (Josefina Alvarado Rivera, Amanda Carrillo Castillo, María de la Luz Mota González)....Pages 547-573
Emerging Opportunities and Future Directions (Martin I. Pech-Canul, Socorro Valdez Rodríguez, Luis A. González, Nuggehalli M. Ravindra)....Pages 575-583
Back Matter ....Pages 585-590

✦ Subjects

Materials Science; Optical and Electronic Materials; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Classical Electrodynamics