Books by Keyword: Luminescence

Description: The 38 peer-reviewed papers collected here together offer a plenitude of up-to-date information on “Transparent Conducting and Semiconducting Oxides, Solid State Lighting, Novel Superconductors and Electromagnetic Metamaterials”. The papers are conveniently arranged into TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING AND SEMICONDUCTING OXIDES, Materials Design and Device Development, Applications, MATERIALS FOR SOLID STATE LIGHTING, SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF NOVEL SUPERCONDUCTORS, ELECTROMAGNETIC METAMATERIALS.

Description: This collection highlights the frontiers of current research in nanotechnology. The scope of the work, Perspectives of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, focusses on the presentation of the current status of the science and technology in various aspects, giving examples of industrial and commercial applications and other invaluable information that could facilitate decisions and indicate future directions of research.

Description: Research and development in the whole area of nanomaterials, including thin films, nanowires, nanocrystals, nano-composites and nanostructured bulk materials, continues to increase year by year. More and more attention is being focused on research which will permit greater control of structures at the nanometer level, in order to ensure that the desired functional properties can be obtained.

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Research and development in the field of nanomaterials - thin films, nanowires, nanocrystals and nanostructured bulk materials - has increased very rapidly during recent years. Especially significant has been research in which the structure is closely controlled at the nanometer level in order to achieve the desired functional properties.
Important discoveries have been made, including quantum dots, confinement effects and super-emission, and the prospects for rapid development in these areas are very promising. The results of much of the basic research have been the basis of an astonishing rate of progress in microelectronics. It is therefore expected that the study and development of nanomaterials will provide a firm foundation for a major increase in the number of advanced technologies and for the development of new optoelectronics and photonic devices.

Description: This book on ultrafast phenomena in semiconductors covers the electrical, magnetic and optical properties of charge carriers in solids and the interaction of solids and low-dimensional structures with electromagnetic fields and radiation. The book gives particular attention to: (a) Spectroscopic, transport, noise and localization properties of electrons and holes confined in quantum wells and quantum dots, including microdevices, (b) Physical principles of generation and detection of Teraherz electromagnetic radiation, and (c) high-speed electronics and materials.
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Description: Ever since the invention of the transistor, a fantastic and continual growth in silicon technology has been witnessed; leading to yet more complex functions and higher densities of devices. The current book summarises the key issues of this field.

Among other topics, the outlook for silicon wafer technology and silicon materials engineering in the next millennium is reviewed and new approaches to the production of a 200 GHz silicon-based devices are described. Possible applications of dislocation luminescence in silicon are discussed as well as the hopes for, and limitations of, the Si:Er - based 1.54 mm emitter. Various properties of silicon-based materials and heterojunctions are characterised by using novel and state-of-the-art measurement techniques. Hydrogen- and oxygen-related defects, rare-earth impurities as well as radiation and gettering effects are discussed from various points of view.

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The rare earth elements and compounds have unique spectroscopic, magnetic and chemical properties. These materials not only provide interesting windows into many aspects of science but are being used in an ever increasing number of strategic applications, particularly in the high growth sectors of world economics such as electronics, environmental protection (catalysis), magnets, nuclear medicine therapy and agriculture.

Description: Sediment accumulation rates are an essential tool for the understanding of processes related to the deposition of organic and inorganic materials in marine and lacustrine environments. Sediment accumulation rates are not only a measure of the speed of deposition, but also represent a very useful tool for further paleoenvironmental reconstructions of climate history or biotic evolution as seen in the fossil record.

Description: Surface Diffusion and Surface Structure - Ten Years of Research The topic of surface diffusion continues to increase in importance, not only because of its practical importance in fields as diverse as catalysis and crystal growth/solidification, but also because this is a case in which fundamental diffusion processes can be monitored in extreme detail; even to the point of following a single migrating atom.

Description: Modern Technology depends upon silicon chips, and life as we know it would hardly be possible without semiconductor devices. Control over a given semiconductor's electronic properties is achieved via defect engineering, and the scientific and technical challenges in this field are manifold.
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