Metal Oxide Defects

Fundamentals, Design, Development and Applications

1st Edition - November 19, 2022
Editors: Vijay Kumar, Sudipta Som, Vishal Sharma, Hendrik C. Swart
Language: English
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Metal Oxide Defects: Fundamentals, Design, Development and Applications provides a broad perspective on the development of advanced experimental techniques to study defects and their chemical activity and catalytic reactivity in various metal oxides. This book highlights advances in characterization and analytical techniques to achieve better understanding of a wide range of defects, most importantly, state-of-the-art methodologies for controlling defects. The book provides readers with pathways to apply basic principles and interpret the behavior of metal oxides.

After reviewing characterization and analytical techniques, the book focuses on the relationship of defects to the properties and performance of metal oxides. Finally, there is a review of the methods to control defects and the applications of defect engineering for the design of metal oxides for applications in optoelectronics, energy, sensing, and more. This book is a key reference for materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and physicists.

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Title page
Table of Contents
The Metal Oxides Book Series Edited by Ghenadii Korotcenkov
Copyright
List of contributors
Series editor biography
Preface to the series
1. Transition metal ions in solid electrolytes. Ceramics and glasses
1. NASICON-type materials
2. Transition metal oxides in electrical conductor glasses
2. The emergence of analytical techniques for defects in metal oxide
1. Introduction
2. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
3. X-ray diffraction (XRD)
4. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
5. X-ray absorption spectroscopy
6. Positron lifetime spectroscopy
7. Electron paramagnetic resonance
8. Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy
9. UV–visible spectroscopy
10. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)
11. Recent advancements for defect characterization
12. Conclusion
3. Vacancy and defect structures in metal oxides
1. Introduction
2. Type of defects in metal oxides
3. Effect of factors on defect chemistry
4. Defect engineering in metal oxides
5. Defects in metal oxides and their applications
6. Conclusion
4. Defects disorder of lanthanum cerium oxide
1. Introduction
2. Cerium oxide
3. Conclusion
4. Recommendations for future research
5. Oxidation of metals and formation of defects by theoretical modeling
1. Introduction
2. Computational techniques for atomistic simulations
3. Oxidation of bulk metals at the atomic scale
4. Oxidation mechanisms of nanomaterials
5. Concluding remarks
6. Role of defects in multiferroic nanoparticles
1. Introduction
2. Role of defects in multiferroic nanoparticles
7. Oxygen defects, morphology, and surface chemistry of metal oxides: a deep insight through a joint experimental and theoretical perspective
1. Introduction
2. Surfaces
3. Relationship between surfaces and catalytic, photocatalytic, luminescent, and antibacterial/antifungal properties
4. Conclusion and future outlook
8. Point defects in stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric metal oxides for modern microelectronics
1. Introduction
2. Growth techniques, their advantages, and disadvantages for the growth of metal oxides
3. Native defects in metal oxides: theory and experiment
4. Hydrogen-related defects in metal oxides
5. Conclusion remarks
9. Influence of defects upon mechanical properties of oxide materials
1. Introduction
2. Metal-oxide materials of different dimensionalities
3. Structural defects
4. A summary of previous works on oxide nanomaterials
5. Concluding remarks and future perspective
10. Defect evolution in ZnO nanocrystal films at doping by group IIIA elements
1. Introduction
2. Samples preparation by USP and experimental setups
3. The film surface morphology and the impurity control
4. X-ray diffraction study
5. Transmittance, electrical resistivity, and bandgap energy control
6. Photoluminescence study and its temperature dependences
7. High resolution X-ray photoelectron spectra
8. The discussion of defect evolution versus donor doping levels
9. Conclusions
11. The role of dopant on the defect chemistry of metal oxides
1. Introduction
2. Intrinsic defects
3. Extrinsic defects
4. Ionic conductivity
5. Electronic conductivity
6. Electromechanical properties
7. Summary
12. Viable defect engineering with templates into metal oxides
1. Introduction
2. Different methods for creating defects
3. Various defects in metal oxides
4. Defect engineering and electrode materials
5. Defect engineering for rechargeable batteries
6. Conclusions
13. Role of defects on the transparent conducting properties of binary metal oxide thin film electrodes
1. Introduction to defects in transparent conducting oxides
2. Defects engineering in transparent conducting oxides
3. Defects mechanism of transparent conducting oxides
4. Defect dimensions in transparent conducting oxide materials
5. Theoretical description of defects in transparent conducting oxides
6. Factors influencing defects formation in transparent conducting oxides
7. Influence of defects on the properties of a TCO system
8. Conclusions
14. Intrinsic defect engineering of metal oxides for lighting applications
1. Introduction
2. Metal oxides, their properties, and corresponding application
3. Defects in metal oxides
4. Theoretical aspects of defects in metal oxides
5. Various metal oxides and their synthesis
6. Defect-dependent properties of metal oxide materials
7. Characterization methods to identify defects
8. Conclusions
15. Oxygen defects in metal oxides and their impact on the electrochemical oxidation of short-chain alcohols
1. Overview of oxygen defects in electrocatalysis
2. Physiochemistry of oxygen vacancies and defects
3. The role of oxygen defects on oxygen reactions
4. The role of oxygen defects on water splitting
5. The role of oxygen defects on alcohols electrooxidation
6. Molybdenum oxides as cocatalysts during the ethylene glycol electrooxidation reaction
7. Iron oxides as cocatalysts during the ethanol electrooxidation reaction
8. Manganese oxides as cocatalysts during the glycerol electrooxidation reaction
9. Conclusions and remarks
16. Defects engineering in metal oxides for gas sensing and electromagnetic wave absorption
1. Introduction
2. Synthetic strategies and characterization methodologies of defected metal oxides
3. Defects engineering in metal oxide for gas sensors
4. Defects engineering in metal oxide for EM wave absorption
5. Conclusions and prospect
17. Ordered vacancy compounds: the case of the Mangéli phases of TiO2
1. Introduction
2. Structural and electronic properties of the Magnéli phases of TiO2
3. Band offset
4. Application of Magnéli phases as memristors
5. Calculations details
6. Conclusions
18. Ion beam-induced defects in ZnO: A radiation hard metal oxide
1. Introduction
2. Ion beam-induced processes in solids
3. Irradiation and implantation-induced defects creation and stabilization in ZnO
4. Tuning resistive property via ion bombardment
5. Optical signatures of ion beam-induced defects
6. Irradiation-induced ferromagnetism in ZnO
7. Concluding remarks
19. Role of point defects in gas sensing effects of metal oxides
1. Introduction
2. The chemical stoichiometry and point defects
3. Oxide sensors and their defect studies
4. Summary
20. Role of grain boundary defects in nanostructured manganites
1. Mixed valent manganites—an overview
2. Role of grain boundary defects in nanostructured manganites
3. Applications of nanostructured manganites
4. Summary and perspectives
21. Defects chemistry and catalysis of Indium oxide
1. Introduction
2. Structure of indium oxides
3. Methods of defects generation in indium oxide
4. Defects characterization in indium oxide
5. Catalysis of indium oxide
6. Concluding remarks
22. Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on the electrical characteristics of oxide-based heterojunction
1. Introduction
2. Swift heavy ion irradiation as a unique tool for materials engineering
3. Effect of SHI irradiation on the electrical characteristics of oxide-based heterojunction
4. Summary
Index

Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. His current research endeavors include the synthesis, processing, and characterization of functional materials, solid-state luminescent materials, soft and ceramic materials, biopolymers, drug delivery devices, and wastewater treatment.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Sudipta Som

During the last ten years of his research career, he has published more than 90 research papers in various reputed international journals. He has published one book and several book chapters in several excellent books. He is an expert in chemical lab work and characterization techniques for defects in metal oxides. He has admirable skill in the synthesis of materials in 0D, 1D, 2D and 3D forms with various shapes and sizes via different physical and chemical synthesis routes. He has in-depth knowledge in materials physics. His specialty is photoluminescence spectroscopy and its applicability towards display device application, LED fabrication, fingerprint detection, barcode detection, and security ink applications. Recently he is involved with the fabrication of flexible white light emitting diodes based on inorganic materials and development of Mini/ Micro- LEDs with the help of perovskite quantum dots.

Affiliations and expertise

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Vishal Sharma

Dr. Vishal Sharma is presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Forensic Science & Criminology, Faculty of Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He currently heads the Institute at Panjab University. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India and Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, India. He is the recipient of DAE Young Scientist Research Award in 2011. Recently he has been conferred the best researcher award by Panjab University under Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence (PURSE), DST Govt. of India grant and Dr. P.D. Sethi National Award in 2018. He is the author of more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers, six book chapters and three books as editor. His current research focus is in the field of Material Science and includes the synthesis of smart materials for different applications, nanophosphors, hydrogels, sensors (drug sensing, fingermark sensing).

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Hendrik C. Swart

Hendrik C. Swart is a senior professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research investigates the degradation of phosphors for field emission displays, as well as developing materials for nano solid-state lighting. He has been key in the development of processes to synthesize and deposit thin films of several types of semiconductor nanoparticles to enhance the color, luminescent intensity, and lifetime of such displays.

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Senior Professor, Department of Physics, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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