Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensors, Optoelectronic / Edition 1

by Ashok K. Vaseashta, D. Dimova-Malinovska, J.M. Marshall

Overview

The principal aim of this NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) "Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Applications in Sensor, Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic Technology" was to present a contemporary overview of the field of nanostructured and advanced electronic materials. Nanotechnology is an emerging scientific field receiving significant worldwide attention. On a nanometer scale, materials or structures may possess new and unique physical properties. Some of these are now known to the scientific community, but there may well be many properties not yet known to us, rendering it as a fascinating area of research and a suitable subject for a NATO ASI. Yet another aspect of the field is the possibility for creating meta-stable phases with unconventional properties and the ultra-miniaturization of current devices, sensors, and machines. Such nanotechnological and related advanced materials have an extremely wide range of potential applications, viz. nanoscale electronics, sensors, optoelectronics, photonics, nano-biological systems, na- medicine, energy storage systems, etc. This is a wide-ranging subject area and therefore requires the formation of multi-disciplinary teams of physicists, chemists, materials scientists, engineers, molecular biologists, pharmacologists, and others to work together on the synthesis and processing of materials and structures, the understanding of their physical properties, the design and fabrication of devices, etc. Hence, in formulating our ASI, we adopted an int- disciplinary approach, bringing together recognised experts in the various fields while retaining a level of treatment accessible to those active in specific individual areas of research and development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402035609
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/06/2005
Series:	NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry , #204
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.13(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Invited Papers.- Nanostructured Materials Based Next Generation Devices and Sensors.- Metal-Induced Crystallization — An Advanced Technology for Producing Polycrystalline Si Films on Foreign Substrates.- Electronic Characterisation and Modelling of Disordered Semiconductors.- Spectroscopy of Rare Earth Ions.- Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Bio-Applications.- Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging of Nanoparticulate Matter.- Matrix Embedded Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles.- From Nanoparticles to Nanorods and Nanowires.- ZnO — An Advanced Material for Solar Cell, Optoelectronic and Sensor Applications.- Ion Beam Nanostructuring of Materials.- Porous Silicon for Sensor Applications.- Luminescent Nanoparticles: Colloidal Synthesis and Emission Properties.- Nanoparticles: Functionalization and Elaboration of Materials.- Organized Mesoporous Thin Films.- Photovoltaics in the World.- Nano-Structured Materials for a Hydrogen Economy.- Nano-Structured Functional Materials: the Defect Chemistry.- Nano-Structured Materials for the Conversion of Sustainable Energy.- Seminar Papers.- Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis and Filling by 1-D Nanocrystals.- Kinetics of Field-Aided Nickel Induced Lateral Crystallisation of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon.- Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells.- Nanocavity Structures Produced by Ion Implantation Into Silicon for Semiconductor Applications.- Nanocrystal Superlattices of Copper, Silver and Gold, by Nanomachining.- Raman Scattering from Low-Dimensional Semiconductors.- Selected Contributed Papers.- Stress State and Twin Configuration of Spheroidal Silver Nanoparticles in Glass.- Synthesis, Characterization, Phoatalytic and Dielectric Properties of Nanosized Strontium and Barium Titanates.- Properties of—-FeSi2Quantum Structures Grown on Silicon.- Zinc Oxide Nanowires on Non-Epitaxial Substrates from Colloidal Processing, for Gas Sensing Applications.- Structural Properties of Poly-Si Thin Films Obtained by Aluminum-Induced Crystallization in Different Atmospheres.- Challenges of Growing CuAlSe2 by Physical Vapor Deposition.- Silicon-On-Insulator Thin Films Grown by Liquid Phase Epitaxy.- Recrystallization of CdTe Under Conditions of High Temperature and Pressure.- Prospective Investigations of Biofuel Cells as Sources for Applications in Nanobiotechnology.- Electronic Properties of A Peanut-Shaped C60 Polymer.- The Gel Trapping Technique: A Novel Method for Characterizing the Wettability of Microparticles and the Replication of Particle Monolayers.- Ideal Nano-Emitters and Panel Nano-Devices Based on 2D Crystals of Superconducting Nanotubes.- Photoluminescence and XPS Study of Selenium Treated Porous Silicon.- Synthesis and Characterization of PbS Nanocrystal Assemblies.- Laser Assisted Fragmentation of Silver and Copper Nanoclusters in SiO2 Thin Films.- Nd3+ Photoluminescence in Silica Thin Films.- Characterization of the Metal-Semiconductor Interface for Silicon Carbide Based Sensors.- Nanoparticles, Nanoporous and Carbon Nanotube Based Devices for Bio-Molecular Detection.- Crystallisation of Apatite Stoichiometric Ionomer Glasses for Medical Applications and Optoelectronics.- Growth and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Diamond and Carbon Nanotubes by Microwave Plasma Chemical Vapor Deposition.