Books in Electronic optical and magnetic materials

Next-Generation Antimicrobial Nanocoatings for Medical Devices and Implants

1st Edition
January 12, 2024
Pratima R. Solanki + 5 more
English
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Next-Generation Antimicrobial Nanocoatings for Medical Devices and Implants provides a detailed, up-to-date overview of the nano-based antimicrobial coatings used to combat medical device-related biofilms. An introduction to biofilms and how they infect medical devices is included, as well as strategies/modificat... techniques used to target these biofilms. This book evaluates the various antimicrobial coatings formed using nanomaterials such as silver, inorganic materials, organic materials, carbon dots, surfactants, and electrospun fibers, specifically for us on medical devices and implants. Numerous coating methods are discussed, along with the biological characterizations of these coating materials, and their toxicological and environmental impact. This book is a useful reference for materials scientists, biomedical engineers, and those working on the development of novel biomaterials for use in medical devices and implants.

Smart and Connected Wearable Electronics

1st Edition
November 13, 2023
Woon-Hong Yeo + 1 more
English
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Smart and Connected Wearable Electronics: Nanomanufacturing, Soft Packaging, and Healthcare Devices is an introduction to the latest advances in nanomaterial printing technologies and soft material packaging of wearable electronics for healthcare applications. Sections introduce the whole range of nanomanufacturing technologies, both conventional and emerging being employed to produce soft healthcare devices, describe the strategies to package and assemble individual components with various form factors and properties toward fully functional soft wearable systems, and introduce a number of healthcare applications based on recent advances in soft wearable systems. This book addresses critical advances in research to help enable the translation to functional commercial products. For example, the book introduces the methods with which different components are packaged to reveal mechanical compliance and robustness. It will be a welcomed addition as a go-to reference for conducting research in academia or working in the commercial sector.

Handbook of Magnetic Materials

1st Edition
Volume 32
October 19, 2023
Ekkes H. Brück
English
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Handbook of Magnetic Materials, Volume 32 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely and field specific topics, each contributed to by an international board of authors.

Chemistry of Modified Oxide and Phosphate Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications

2nd Edition
Volume 36
September 25, 2023
Robson Fernandes de Farias
English
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Chemistry of Modified Oxide and Phosphate Surfaces: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition, Volume 17 presents an updated overview of the surface chemistry of modified oxides and phosphates. The book focuses on their potential applications and provides a fundamental understanding and explanation of significant developments. This new edition extensively updates and expands existing chapters with more recent examples and applications (such as bulk and surface modifications). In addition, it adds two new chapters on both the formulation of solid propellants for rockets and missiles and medical applications. This book will serve as an effective starting point for anyone wanting to understand the subject in greater depth. It will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, as well as researchers and the industry sector.

Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Nanophotonics

1st Edition
September 7, 2023
Nicolae C. Panoiu
English
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Fundamentals and Applications of Nonlinear Nanophotonics includes key concepts of nonlinear nanophotonics, computational and modeling techniques to design these materials, and the latest advances. This book addresses the scientific literature on nanophotonics while most existing books focus almost exclusively on the linear aspects of light-matter interaction at the nanoscale. Sections cover nonlinear optics of sub-wavelength photonic nanostructured materials, review nonlinear optics of bound-states in the continuum, nonlinear optics of chiral plasmonic metasurfaces, nonlinear hyperbolic nanomaterials, nonlinear topological photonics, plasmonic lattice solitons, and more. This book is suitable for academics and industry professionals working in the discipline of materials science, engineering and nanotechnology.

Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures

1st Edition
August 31, 2023
Shangjr Gwo + 3 more
English
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Plasmonic Materials and Metastructures: Fundamentals, Current Status, and Perspectives reviews the current status and emerging trends in the development of conventional and alternative plasmonic materials. Sections cover fundamentals and emerging trends of plasmonic materials development, including synthesis strategies (chemical and physical) and optical characterization techniques. Next, the book addresses fundamentals, properties, remaining barriers for commercial translation, and the latest advances and opportunities for conventional noble metal plasmonic materials. Fundamentals and advances for alternative plasmonic materials are also reviewed, including two-dimensional hybrid materials composed of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitride, etc. In addition, other sections cover applications of plasmonic metastructures enabled by plasmonic materials with improved material properties and newly discovered functionalities. Applications reviewed include quantum plasmonics, topological plasmonics, chiral plasmonics, nanolasers, imaging (metalens), active, and integrated technologies.

Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Devices

1st Edition
August 29, 2023
Guohua Xie
English
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Solution-Processed Organic Light-Emitting Devices provides a comprehensive reference on the principles and advances in materials design, device structures, and processing technologies of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Most importantly, the book analyses the dynamics of thin-film growth from solutions such as solvent orthogonalization, coffee-ring effects, and interfacial adhesion. Exciton generation and utilization, host–guest energy transfer, and interfacial interaction in the solution-processed films are considered with the material and device design to maximize the electroluminescent performance of OLEDs.The book reviews the materials, devices, and technologies dedicated to solution-processed thin-film devices, which are not only applicable to OLEDs but may be adapted to other emerging semiconducting devices due to the similarity in methods (for instance, quantum-dot LEDs and solar cells, and perovskite-based LEDs/photovoltaics/d... book is suitable for researchers in academia and industry working in the materials science and engineering, chemistry, and physics disciplines.

Metal Oxides for Next-generation Optoelectronic, Photonic, and Photovoltaic Applications

1st Edition
August 28, 2023
Vijay Kumar + 3 more
English
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Metal Oxides for Next Generation Optoelectronic, Photonic and Photovoltaic Applications focuses on the optoelectronic, photonic and photovoltaic behaviors of metallic oxides and closely related phenomena, from elementary principles to the latest findings. Each chapter includes a comprehensive evaluation of the synthesis and characterization of the most relevant metal oxides nanostructures for each application. In addition, there is a focus on methods to tune the materials’ properties in order to improve devices performance. This book is suitable for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry working in the disciplines of materials science and engineering, chemistry and physics. Metal oxides are widely used in various optoelectronic devices, photonics, display devices, smart windows, sensors, optical components, energy-saving, and harvesting devices. Each application requires materials with their own specific properties. By controlling the particle size, shape, crystal structure, one can tune various properties of metal oxides viz. bandgap, absorption properties, conductivity, which alter the material for the specific application.

Integrated Photonics for Data Communication Applications

1st Edition
July 26, 2023
Madeleine Glick + 2 more
English
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Integrated Photonics for Data Communications Applications reviews the key concepts, design principles, performance metrics and manufacturing processes from advanced photonic devices to integrated photonic circuits. The book presents an overview of the trends and commercial needs of data communication in data centers and high-performance computing, with contributions from end users presenting key performance indicators. In addition, the fundamental building blocks are reviewed, along with the devices (lasers, modulators, photodetectors and passive devices) that are the individual elements that make up the photonic circuits. These chapters include an overview of device structure and design principles and their impact on performance. Following sections focus on putting these devices together to design and fabricate application-specific photonic integrated circuits to meet performance requirements, along with key areas and challenges critical to the commercial manufacturing of photonic integrated circuits and the supply chains being developed to support innovation and market integration are discussed. This series is led by Dr. Lionel Kimerling Executive at AIM Photonics Academy and Thomas Lord Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT and Dr. Sajan Saini Education Director at AIM Photonics Academy at MIT. Each edited volume features thought-leaders from academia and industry in the four application area fronts (data communications, high-speed wireless, smart sensing, and imaging) and addresses the latest advances.

Metal Halide Perovskites for Generation, Manipulation and Detection of Light

1st Edition
July 20, 2023
Juan P. Martínez-Pastor + 2 more
English
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Metal Halide Perovskites for Generation, Manipulation and Detection of Light covers the current state and future prospects of lead halide perovskite photonics and photon sources, both from an academic and industrial point-of-view. Advances in metal halide perovskite photon sources (lasers) based on thin films, microcrystals and nanocrystals are comprehensively reviewed, with leading experts contributing current advances in theory, fundamental concepts, fabrication techniques, experiments and other important research innovations. This book is suitable for graduate students, researchers, scientists and engineers in academia and R&D in industry working in the disciplines of materials science and engineering.

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